I found a blog post about someone experiencing the same thing. The comments indicate there are more people encountering it.
http://www.everythingtechy.com/2013/12/27/pldt-throttlinglimiting-bit-torrent-traffic/ On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Dan Sweeney <[email protected]> wrote: > Go to Hurricane Electric and see if you can get a tunnel-brokered account ( > www.he.net). From there you can do 6in4 or if your really brave 6in4/4in6 > tunneling. > > I haven't bothered to set up a test for IPv4 tunnels (vpns).. > > Also do not recommend using speedtest as a bandwidth see: > http://www.noaccess.com/~dsweeney/speedtest.ppt > > Dan > On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:26 AM, JP Loh wrote: > > > Interesting. Can anyone confirm with an actual test with an IPv6 tunnel? > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Dan Sweeney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Rob, > > > > Silly man.. remember a project called SASN/WiMax a few years ago ?? > > > > All of Globe CONSUMER networks either goes thru SASN (Ericsson) or > Redback DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) devices. Depending on the Purchase > Plan you bought P2P has different rate limits as does http downloads, udp > video streaming etc. > > > > PLDT has simular deployments with the myDSL network and some parts of > Smart (but not all) also have SASN clusters. Don't think they used the > Redback DPI/BRAS devices. > > > > It should be noted that *application rate shaping* is not illegal in the > USA but *application rate limiting* is. > > > > Dan > > On Jan 5, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Michael Tinsay wrote: > > > > > Is anybody else getting multiple duplicates of this particular thread? > > > > > > Anyway... > > > > > > Just this past holiday week I was able to download a 2GB file via > bittorrent using a Smart BRO LTE USB stick with a prepaid LTE sim. It took > less than two hours. No throttling experienced here. Also from > experience, Globe throttles your *entire* connection when it detects high > P2P traffic, but not PLDT/Smart. I'll try to test PLDT DSL again when I > get back to the office. Maybe they're testing out new network traffic > management gears. > > > > > > > > > --- mike t. > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, 5 January 2014, 23:22, [C]hicken [G] od < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I am no networking expert but according to the local forums PLDT has > some issues with one of the international undersea cables. If torrents work > on an encrypted connection the rumours may be true that throttling is > occuring. > > > On Jan 5, 2014 9:09 AM, "Robert Locke" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi gang, > > > > > > Is anyone experiencing problems with BitTorrent on PLDT myDSL? I'm > maxing out at 10 to 20kB/s download, a far cry from the 600 to 700 kB/s I > used to be getting a few weeks ago. > > > > > > For the record, my connection seems fine in every other respect - > http, video, voip, etc all work well. Speedtest.net reports the usual 5 to > 6 Mbps of download speed. I haven't touched my modem or wireless routers > in months and none of them support QoS anyways. I've tried several torrent > clients (e.g., uTorrent, Transmission, Vuze, etc), but no luck. > > > > > > One curiosity is that sometimes my download speed will reach 300+ > kB/s, but *only* when I'm connected to a fast peer *within* the PLDT > network. This, more than anything, indicates there may be some kind of > filtering going on. > > > > > > I've found a work around by tunneling the Torrent traffic through a > remote server, but it's a bit of a pain. > > > > > > Any theories? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Rob > > > _________________________________________________ > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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