Telkom blocking torrents??

Punt said:
OK so it looks like there might genuinely be a problem with Telkom Internet, it's not necessarily a bad torrent issue. Great...

Does Telkom monitor this forum? Or are our chances of hearing from them zero?
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0 chance of getting any usefull/fixes from them, they will update asking for trace routes but after that nothing
 
Storm1790 said:
im in the same boat.:(
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thought so, used a different ISP last night and all running 100%, so Telkom is currently completely blocking torrents on capped packages from 12-6am......... thanks Telkom........
 
Same here in Eldoraigne. Getting speeds of between 0.1kbps to 350 in a matter of seconds...but mostly lower than 25
 
Can't believe this is still going on I'm even restricted at night don't get more than 2.0 kbs I remember getting 200kbs I was even happy with 40kbs but this is ridiculous.
 
Hansolo said:
Can't believe this is still going on I'm even restricted at night don't get more than 2.0 kbs I remember getting 200kbs I was even happy with 40kbs but this is ridiculous.
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I discovered this too.
For the first time since i have ever used Telkom Uncapped i have noticed that even leaving it overnight im stuck on 5Kbps, for the last 2 nights.
I just bought 30 gigs from Afrihost for a speed up and they are going at 200Kbps.
 
I took this up with Telkom, and they claim it's a fault (open for the last 3 months). Last night and today the speeds are shockingly slow. 0.5kb/s on a 2Meg line.
 
Too true DA. What a bunch of crap (a fault) they are actively blocking us. 3 months my hole.
 
I tried downloading an Ubuntu distro and it went at full speed. It appears that Telkom are being selective in their blocking (targeting trackers?) . All other torrents from the usual sites are effectively stopped.
 
Taranis said:
I tried downloading an Ubuntu distro and it went at full speed. It appears that Telkom are being selective in their blocking (targeting trackers?) . All other torrents from the usual sites are effectively stopped.
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Im sure you could have used a FTP for that.
 
My torrent downloads has been great since the weekend. Managed to get up to around 400kbps on my 4mbps line. I'm happy. However, I have raised the TI cancelation request and switching to AH most probably...
 
Electric said:
Why are you guys still flogging this dead horse?
Don't use torrents, use nzb.
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Unfortunately, doing par occasionally kills my raspberry pi (my download and NFS server). I also noticed I often get lucky enough to download corrupted files that after downloading GBs but par2 is unable to repair. Lastly, the media I download is far faster and smaller to get it from torrent than nzb. :)
 
soliton said:
My torrent downloads has been great since the weekend. Managed to get up to around 400kbps on my 4mbps line. I'm happy. However, I have raised the TI cancelation request and switching to AH most probably...
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It did seem to improve for a bit but now back and slower than ever....
 
soliton said:
Unfortunately, doing par occasionally kills my raspberry pi (my download and NFS server). I also noticed I often get lucky enough to download corrupted files that after downloading GBs but par2 is unable to repair. Lastly, the media I download is far faster and smaller to get it from torrent than nzb. :)
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How do you figure that torrents are faster and smaller?
NZB I get full line speed.
You don't get faster than that.
 
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