Free Google Tool Helps Determine if Your ISP is Throttling / Blocking BitTorrent

As I mentioned in a previous post ISP’s are throttling and sometimes completely blocking Torrent services.  I stumbled across a handy tool which helps detect if your ISP is indeed throttling or blocking your torrent uploads/downloads.  They report that a majority of US users being blocked / throttled are in the Cox or Comcast networks.  To run the test go to http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

Downloading Torrents Anonymously and Keeping your ISP from Throttling your Bandwidth

I frequently download torrents and I was noticing a downward trend in my download speeds. I used to get speeds of up over 200 Kbs/second and about a week later that same download was going under 50 Kbs/second. I have read numerous articles online about how ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) are throttling back speeds on its users that are downloading torrents. So I looked at the various solutions out there to download torrents in privacy such as block listing and proxy servers but none of them really stopped my ISP from throttling back my speeds. Read more