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Comment Re:Not a good idea (Score 1) 574

What your ISP (or the NAT/router box that you run at the edge of your network) *can* do is to prioritize your own bandwidth based on the urgency with which any packet needs to get somewhere.

I agree this is what the ISP should do. I'm in Canada using Rogers -- and the problem is they deprioritized BitTorrent (and only BitTorrent) so that the uplod speed was about 0.1 k/sec. Which basically makes the entire protocol useless, and makes the traffic shaping a frustration, instead of a boon, to users.

I want to play fair. I want my p2p traffic to have lower priority than my own (or my neighbour's) VOIP, web surfing, etc.

But I paid for a high-bandwidth pipe so I could use BitTorrent; I will accept a lower speed at peak times, but not their model which kills the speed ALL the time, whether the network is congested or not. And only for that one specific application - eMule, UseNet, FTP, HTTP, all work at full speeds.

Needless to say, I was fed up, switching ISPs is not an option, so I'm using uTorrent with packet encryption and everything runs well.

But the goal of QoS is defeated - my roommates and I now have to individually throttle our bittorrent clients instead of letting my router handle the QoS. The ISP can't adequately tell encrypted traffic from p2p traffic and general quality suffers. All because of an over-agressive filter.

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