torrent friendly

babum

Are ISPs in lebanon torrent friendly, i know that they arent friendly with anyone who uses their network, but do they block or throttle torrents?

thanks

Flakk

they dont block them but they do FUP you if you download too much. Just like what happened to me, I have been enjoying full speed downloads for the past 3 months with no limits and just yesterday they fuped me with a max speed of 11kbs at night.
Gonna change isp's now.

babum

what isp were you using?

Flakk

cyberia

bigjudge

All ISP's have some type of an FUP policy in place, Terra Fup'd me over 16 months ago, my speed after 11 pm barely reaches 10 k , however it goes up after 2 am. Babum, i can assure you that my ISP throttles P2P applications, including Torrents.

babum

thats a shame. I think that its cheaper to buy games from the streets than using the internet.

The-MMMs

you had in mind downloading games from steam right ?

... yeah this FUP and quota limits are really stupid

i mean you can either have no FUP, yet a quota limit, or no real quota but with FUP ... these guys think were idiots.

the only real solution i found was actually having 2 cnxns at home. I have subscribed to Ogero's DSL due to their well good enough latency and also to some cable guy, i get good speeds with this fella, somewhere between 30-50, never less never more, and no limits or FUP or nothing.

Flakk

I was able to download my steam games cause after 3 or 4 pm they just remove the FUP and speed goes back to normal. I measured it and max with an fup on my account i can download 800mb a night.

babum

thats great so even with FUP on you were able to download at full speed after 4pm?
its really a shame that there isnt any ISP able to provide or offer such a downloads, well only the universities and I bet they will chase you as soon as they see such an elevated network usage.

On the other hand, if I advice for example the AUB that I will be downloading a game from steam (totally legal) would they let me use they network overnight?

The-MMMs

babum wrotethats great so even with FUP on you were able to download at full speed after 4pm?
its really a shame that there isnt any ISP able to provide or offer such a downloads, well only the universities and I bet they will chase you as soon as they see such an elevated network usage.

On the other hand, if I advice for example the AUB that I will be downloading a game from steam (totally legal) would they let me use they network overnight?

I personally rape the bandwidth here at LAU and nobody could care less, but then again AUB may be different.