Zeus_Hunt Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 If you're curious as to whether your particular ISP is one of those naughty P2P jammers, there's a website that might just help you find out.Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany has unveiled a project called 'Glasnost' which aims to gather information about what ISPs cripple BitTorrent transfers around the world.The heart of the project is a Java applet which simulates BitTorrent traffic, both on a well-known BitTorrent port and on a randomly-chosen high-numbered TCP port. By transferring data in both directions for either four or seven minutes – depending on how much of a rush you're in – the site aims to detect any packet loss that could indicate that peer-to-peer traffic is being 'managed' by your ISP.The system isn't perfect – it detects blocking rather than throttling, so only ISPs that actually prevent P2P uploads via TCP RST injection and similar methods will be detected – but it's a good tool for getting a rough idea of why your torrents might be bogged down.The project has already published preliminary results on some 5,300 connections analysed by the software, and the results are perhaps surprising. Of the 889 invididual ISPs that were analysed during the test, only fourteen showed evidence of blocking BitTorrent traffic – and ten of those were located in the US.While a cluster of results in the US is to be expected, if only because more tests have been carried out from that location than anywhere else, it's still interesting that the country with the next largest sample size, Canada, has but a single ISP showing signs of outright blocking of BitTorrent traffic.If you want to run the test across your own connection, point your Java-enabled browser at the project website - Glasnost.Anyone here know that their ISP is doing naughty things with their data stream, or are UK ISPs above such petty fiddling? Share your thoughts over in the forums. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Funny, i´ll try it and post the result. Hope my ISP is not, everyone using this ISP says it´s not so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 thanks Z,busy place.will test later and post results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Has anybody done this test to there connection yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HATE9X Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Test server busy all the time, d'oh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNM Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I've done it and i knew already b4 i did it that my ISP doesn't block anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amplify Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 It's always busy, unfortunately. I've tried many times through out many days and nothing, always busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 We are sorry. Our measurement servers are currently busy. Please try again later This what i got lol :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman123 Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 My ISP isn't blocking my connection according to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 My ISP isn't blocking my connection according to that.got the test to actually run again. as before is is stuck on 404 seconds.just because your isp is not on the list doesnt mean anything. they might do it at certain peak times on the day for your area.i find it funny that must of the testings show as their servers are busy.maybe they are getting block too ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman123 Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I already knew they weren't throttling, I just decided to use it. I get my maximum download speed in torrents..Thats if the seeders don't have crappy internet/aren't being throttled/not greedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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