Virgin Media Broadband Bittorrent restrictions

I DL between 9pm and 7am dont have any problems in the daytime with speed I pay for 10 meg and get the usual 3 meg poff the robbin bastards.

P2P restrictions are still in effect from 9pm to midnight. After that its down to your seeds.
 
I find for torrents, cap your max upload to 40mb and schedule from 10pm till 09:00, usually ok. If you hit any issues, just change your port range on your torrents, usually easy enough to do.
I leave it all to my NAS and just check it all in the morning from work.
Never have any issues tbh. Biggest problem is the pain i get from uploading as i mostly have OS image torrents. I should really ring and complain but I'm sure i'd be pulled up for something i've done previously :(.

Anyway my advise for torrents,
DL limit 400mb/s
UL limit 40kb/s
hours 10pm - 09am
Change your port usage around every so often. If you have access to the group, ask about torrent data encryption. Azureus/Vuze supports this and means its harder to detect the content being sent.
 
Good advice there.
I use Alt Binz for newsgroups and try to schedule stuff, but the scheduler isnt the most user friendly thing to config and understand.

Moving to NZBGet running via a WNR3500L Optware.
 
i use astraweb and nzbmatrix if i changed to gigabyte with vpn how much slower does that make the download on my 50mb bb i can downloada 800mb avi file in about 6/7 mins with my vpn on it would take about 50/60mins for the same download they really kill the speed but the security is nice to have
 
i use astraweb and nzbmatrix if i changed to gigabyte with vpn how much slower does that make the download on my 50mb bb i can downloada 800mb avi file in about 6/7 mins with my vpn on it would take about 50/60mins for the same download they really kill the speed but the security is nice to have

I use Giganews, I have found that if I use SSL on port 443 I do not get any throttling. I have tried downloading through their VPN, but speed doesn't get anywhere near 50Mb, more like 20Mb if I remember rightly. Only really use their VPN when I'm on a hotspot I don't trust.
 
i noticed using port 80 it throttled my newsgroup downloading immediately, changed to another one of the support ports (81 in my case with Newsdemon) and it jumped back up - till i hit the threshold.
 
VPN is still the absolute way to beat traffic shaping restriction from ISP.
Regardless which port you had opt to use, the traffic pattern of P2P is easily picked up by the filtering proggy used by your ISP.

Go to vpnreviews.com to look out for good bargains, occasionally you would get free full-fledge guest account to try-out.

Give those free-account a miss, generally they had lower bandwidth, and P2P restricted.

I am on a 8 Mbps plan (= 1MByte/sec) and my ISP is deploying traffic shaping restriction during daytime, but with my paid VPN, I could easily get an average of 750 KByte/sec for my P2P traffic any time of the day, opted for annual plan for cost-effectiveness.
P2P as in BT, ED2K and vidz streaming.

I got my VPN service from HongKong reseller, over 200 servers from half dozen of countries spanning from Asia, US and EU, cost me less than USD$40 per year.

PS: Google for your own economical VPN service resellers. I only could provide u the info stated above, and no more.
 
I'm struggling to get above 350kbps on torrents now on a 50mb line.

It's frustrating that I have to wait hours for a movie, and days for high def when I have a 50mb line. Apart from downloading media on p2p networks I have absolutely no use for 50mb of bandwidth.

Very frustrating.
 
I'm struggling to get above 350kbps on torrents now on a 50mb line.

It's frustrating that I have to wait hours for a movie, and days for high def when I have a 50mb line. Apart from downloading media on p2p networks I have absolutely no use for 50mb of bandwidth.

Very frustrating.

Have you tried downloading from a website or newsgroups at the point your are 350kbps ?

Are you on a private tracker for your torrents ?
 
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