Is Telkom shaping torrents?

The entire Telkom ISP is dead at the moment. getting less than 10% of line speed (also 10MB)
 
On my 4meg line I have a 13gig file which is at 83% complete. When did I start downloading?

On the 3rd of Jan :(
 
I noticed some torrent sites work okayish but it seems they've sort of blocked most popular torrent sites completely to snail downloading I thought this was a US thing?
 
Hansolo said:
I noticed some torrent sites work okayish but it seems they've sort of blocked most popular torrent sites completely to snail downloading I thought this was a US thing?
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The sites work fine. Torrenting has nothing to do with the sites that you download the torrent file from.
 
I was talking about downloading torrents not browsing sites.
 
You could possibly try using a VPN service when you torrent. VPN traffic usually has a different priority on the network and the torrent traffic is encapsulated thus there is no way the ISP can identify the torrent traffic.
 
Complained about this to one of the telkom support guys we have at the office awhile ago and was told that torrent downloads get shaped and throttled during office hours
 
My torrents run at 800kb/s whole day... #Mweb
 
froot said:
Are. Not is.
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"Telkom" is grammatically a singular noun, even if semantically it denotes an entity made up of a collective group / many people. The entirety of what comprises "Telkom" may include many investors, divisions, employees, subordinate/contracted companies... but "Telkom" is recognized as a distinct registered company with its own distinct identity and legal personality

Generally speaking, British English treats collective nouns (corporations, departments, etc.) as plural. American English treats them as singular. The size of the group is irrelevant.

I would think that depending how the question/statement is formed, would largely determine whether "is" or "are" is more appropriate. Example - Fowler wrote: "The Cabinet is divided is better, because in the order of thought a whole must precede division; and The Cabinet are agreed is better, because it takes two or more to agree.". Therefore, in the OP's case, "Is Telkom shaping torrents?", "Is" would seem perfectly acceptable/appropriate

Either way, this is not something that would appear to be clear-cut enough for you to pedantic and making corrections rather than answering questions... ? Feel free to prove me wrong on that, though, if you feel otherwise
 
fragtion said:
"Telkom" is grammatically a singular noun, even if semantically it denotes an entity made up of a collective group / many people. The entirety of what comprises "Telkom" may include many investors, divisions, employees, subordinate/contracted companies... but "Telkom" is recognized as a distinct registered company with its own distinct identity and legal personality

Generally speaking, British English treats collective nouns (corporations, departments, etc.) as plural. American English treats them as singular. The size of the group is irrelevant.

I would think that depending how the question/statement is formed, would largely determine whether "is" or "are" is more appropriate. Example - Fowler wrote: "The Cabinet is divided is better, because in the order of thought a whole must precede division; and The Cabinet are agreed is better, because it takes two or more to agree.". Therefore, in the OP's case, "Is Telkom shaping torrents?", "Is" would seem perfectly acceptable/appropriate

Either way, this is not something that would appear to be clear-cut enough for you to pedantic and making corrections rather than answering questions... ? Feel free to prove me wrong on that, though, if you feel otherwise
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o snap. i didn't even get what he was saying. i saw it as "its not a question of if they are, its YES THEY ARE". i'm such a dumbass
 
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