How to check if your ADSL is being shaped

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Hey All

I was wondering if there was a way to check if there is any port shaping going on an ADSL line.

Cheers
 
Glasnost? Never tried it myself...

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

Glasnost creates a BitTorrent-like transfer between your machine and our server, and determines whether or not your ISP is limiting such traffic. This is a first step towards making traffic manipulation by ISPs more transparent to their customers.

We designed our online tool to detect whether your ISP is using one of the following techniques:

Throttling all BitTorrent traffic.
Throttling all traffic at well-known BitTorrent ports.
Throttling BitTorrent traffic only at well-known BitTorrent ports.
Note that some ISPs do not throttle all BitTorrent traffic but only if this traffic exceeds a certain threshold. Thus, passing our tests does not necessary mean that there is no throttling occurring on your link.


Our test runs BitTorrent and TCP downloads as well as uploads on a well-known BitTorrent port and a non-BitTorrent port.
If you are interested in a more detailed description of our test suite and its detection techniques, please read on here.
Note to all users: To allow accurate measurements you should stop any large downloads that might run in the background.
The Glasnost BitTorrent test takes approximately 8 minutes.
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