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AT&T Not “Traffic Shaping”? Right.

Started by Kyle Brady · 1 year ago

Take a look at these screenshots.
Screen 1:  downloading a torrent for tonight’s Scrubs.  The source doesn’t matter, since there are both legal and illegal sources for this kind of content.  Download speed, via test, is 661Kbps, and the torrent is at a crawl.  Web pages and uploading things via SSH to a server take forever.
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  • I have ATT Uverse and I have a similar problem, whenever I hit bit torrents to hard let's say for a full night, I get capped. (I have a 3 mpbs, when capped goes to 300kpbs)
    The only time I called to complain they schedule a technician to take a look, but after a couple of hours it came back to normal.
    I haven't used torrents lately so can't be 100% and I only noticed twice.
    Fucking ATT!
  • yarg, i have the same problem and its so god dam annoying- for a while i had an encryption on the data i sent and recived or something like that and i had smooth torrenting though vuse. but in the past few days it came back and it makes me pissy i cant run a torrent in the bg while i browse the internet
  • Alex and izzy,

    Turns out that AT&T is now putting what they've been doing to people like us in writing: http://gizmodo.com/5048091/att-changes-terms-of...

    Looks like a great time for the internet, folks.

    --Kyle

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