Torrent block on Telkom?

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DaveZim

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I've just had a telkom 4mb line installed and everything works great with the exception of anything done through a p2p client, which doesn't work at all. Browsing, steam downloads, streaming is all fine, but not even a kb through when trying torrents. I've tried different pc's and different clients and nothing. As soon as I switch to 3G, the torrents start, thus it clearly isn't a problem on my side. Any ideas what would be causing the block and how to fix?
 
Try scheduling your torrents between 23:00-07:00 and see what gives. Torrents are generally shaped during the day but they run fine during those hours. I've been managing 4-5 movies on a daily basis during those times. If that does not suite you look into using a VPN for torrents or sign sign up for a good nzb news server service.

Telkom is currently experiencing upstream issues which started two weeks ago, things are still a bit shaky at the moment.
 
I cant download any torrents during the day with Telkom internet. I am able to download torrents during the day if there are seeds in south africa, but the chances of that is low, and you would also have slow download speeds.

Other ISP's do not block torrents as bad as Telkom, I know that MWEB do allow torrents through the day, but I think it is a bit slower during the day.
 
Use an alternative method to download the files.
NZB for example is not throttled in anyway.
 
Electric said:
Use an alternative method to download the files.
NZB for example is not throttled in anyway.
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Errrm. In my case it is and I do have a paid news server, max download speed I've been getting for the past 2 days on my 2MB line was 44kb/s.
 
TI is my ISP. NZB's used to run like a steam train for a few days and all of a sudden everything went pear shaped. :(
 
YingYang said:
Which news server are you using?
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Powernews! It's not the news server that's the problem, problem seems to be on telkom's side.
My Line has been shaped/throttled as I've done multiple speed tests thorught out the whole of yesterday which all result in much the same :

D/L : 0.34MB
U/L : 0.41MB

I've done 170GB so far and been only uising NZB's this month so it seems like if you go over the 160GB mark or so with NZB's you get shaped/throttled.
 
BashX said:
Powernews! It's not the news server that's the problem, problem seems to be on telkom's side.
My Line has been shaped/throttled as I've done multiple speed tests thorught out the whole of yesterday which all result in much the same :

D/L : 0.34MB
U/L : 0.41MB

I've done 170GB so far and been only uising NZB's this month so it seems like if you go over the 160GB mark or so with NZB's you get shaped/throttled.
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Couldn't disagree more.
I use well over that on nzb alone each month.
 
BashX said:
Powernews! It's not the news server that's the problem, problem seems to be on telkom's side.
My Line has been shaped/throttled

I've done 170GB so far and been only uising NZB's this month so it seems like if you go over the 160GB mark or so with NZB's you get shaped/throttled.
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Electric said:
Couldn't disagree more.
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To substantiate what Electric is saying, I connected to my HTPC (XBMC on an OpenElec machine) and manually added a 2gig BDRip - note that I'm also on a 4 meg line:

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This is only NZB downloads, so it excludes my youtubing, game updates and torrents for when I can't find something from my news server.
 
YingYang said:
Voetsek, go do some research :wtf:
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i did... from wiki

Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects, and is the precursor to Internet forums that are widely used today. Usenet can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between email and web forums. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.
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sorry, relatively new to all this :confused:
 
Ja stop hogging all the bandwidth - I can't watch Netflix dammit!
 
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