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Is throttling legal? I would think you could call tech support and have them address the throttling issue. You are a paying customer and I think you're entitled to the full bandwidth you're paying for.<BR>
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On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:33 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">James Sumners wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Actually, I had that particular problem a couple years ago when using</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Speedfactory. Switching the modem mostly alleviated the issue. I think</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the modem they supplied was getting overloaded.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hmm, this modem is only a couple of months old and it's not a cheap one </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">either. integrated wireless and voip.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I hate to think it's the modem. I've got a spare I'll give a shot and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">see if the problem disappears, thanks.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Geoffrey <<A HREF="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I've done a bit of research on this issue and apparently there are a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> number of ISPS that are throttling bandwidth when users are using</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> bittorrent. Apparently this shows up as a high number of tcp-resets.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> What I've recently experienced is my connection is actually dropped and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I have to power cycle my modem to get the connection back up again.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I don't think this is a coincidence as it's happened twice in the past</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> week and only when I had bittorrent running.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Anyone else with Bellsouth seen anything like this?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> --</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Until later, Geoffrey</FONT>
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