MTS India is throttling bittorrent traffic / p2p traffic
. . . I think MTS has started throttling bit torrent traffic because lately I find that if I try to download something using torrent , speed is very slow, around 10 kbps average but if I download something directly using http then speed goes to 200-300kbps. But sometimes speed is good for torrents for few seconds then again it drops to very low . Then i have no choice but download using http but sometimes large http downloads get corrupted because there is no check like torrent for file health. I mostly download linux related files and those are really big. Is anyone else facing same problem ?
Sure! MTS India is throttling Torrent
I have talked with their customer support just now on 9136955955 and they confirmed that they have restricted the torrent traffic. But their reason was awesome - Govt of India has banned it - ha ha!
I asked them why Govt is not banning it for other ISPs and the customer care guy was silent. I am sure that MTS is doing this so that they can save bandwidth of their so called 40GB unlimited for Rs 999. What a rubbish.
I have disconnected their connection.