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HavocXphere
Honorary Master
I'm sorry but my crystal ball is in for repairs. It gets a lot of use seeing how nobody provides sufficient info in their threads...like uhm ISP. 
Presumably BTGuard involves encryption, which will run afoul of the no-bypassing-shaping rule & get your account suspended (depends on ISP...).
Presumably BTGuard involves encryption, which will run afoul of the no-bypassing-shaping rule & get your account suspended (depends on ISP...).
Srack0verflow
Expert Member
my downloads can never go any faster than 38kB/s anyhow, so forgive me if i'm in no hurry to find out what it even is
Yeah, that's it - avoid shaping so that your ISP instead throttles EVERY port including HTTP and e-mail traffic, effectively destroying the benefit of uncapped for everyone else. Way to go. Do you think ISP's implement shaping for fun?
If you want fast unshaped bandwidth for torrents and other p2p, PAY for a service that will allow you to reach those speeds on those protocols.
If you want fast unshaped bandwidth for torrents and other p2p, PAY for a service that will allow you to reach those speeds on those protocols.
aelar
Well-Known Member
Ok, well I'm just putting it out there -- if "Apparently BTGuard will avoid throttling.", then it's overriding limits imposed by your ISP, giving them reason to terminate your account, or otherwise implement more strict shaping policies which make it worse for everyone else who uses the same type of accounts... just because you'd be paying for a 3rd party extra layer service doesn't mean that money extra goes to your ISP and is acceptable by their TOC/AUP - and at the end of the day they're going to be the ones carrying that proposed 'unthrottled' BTguard traffic to your pcummm looking at it BTguard is a paid service ?
aelar
Well-Known Member
not saying id do it by the way. jus putting it out there that it is paid 
, and i agree. it wud make things worse. but its also on the other hand true that compared to most international ISP's ( NOT LINES! ) we are throttled atleast 3 times as bad.
, and i agree. it wud make things worse. but its also on the other hand true that compared to most international ISP's ( NOT LINES! ) we are throttled atleast 3 times as bad.