Quick question regarding Afrihost Capped accounts

dEaThXc0rE

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Hi,

I just want to be clear, capped accounts are not supposed to be rate limited/shaped/throttled right?

Does this apply to p2p/torrents as well?

I was downloading a file over p2p and the speeds rarely went above 400kbps (10mb line). Initially I thought it's the line, ran a speedtest, got 9mb, then tried just a normal HTTP GET file download and it went full speed (850kbps odd).

I then switched providers and my P2P started donwloading at close to 9Mb.

What's the story behind p2p/torrents really?
 
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