Coming back from a land with Cable broadband and download rates we Malaysians only dream about, I figure since I’ll be here for a while I should make my Internet experience as comfortable as possible.
So I go get the best router money can buy, one with a Ubicom QoS chip and I spent a day of manual DIY building a cooling unit for my modem to keep it going strong throughout the hot Malaysian days.
I set it all up, turn it on… and my Torrents max out at 2.5kbps. At first I though something must be wrong with my connection, but testing downloading drivers and AV updates show an average of 50+ kbps… not blazingly fast, but OK.
Then after a bit of reading, I came across this page. It’s a Wiki for my favourite BT client, Azureus. In it is a list of KNOWN offenders who limit BT traffic.
So here we are ladies and gents, all of our suspicions have been confirmed. TM.Net is a convicted traffic shaper.
Being pissed off at TM for promising “Unlimited Bandwidth” and not delivering aside, the question on top of everyone’s mind now must be “What can I do about this?”
Well if you’re an Azureus user, Azureus provides a very helpful page with the solution. Essentially all that is required is to check a few settings to encrypt our Bit Torrent packets so the packet shapers can’t make head or tail of it.
(See the link above for instructions, and if you don’t use Azureus (which I suggest you do) you can see here for some help.)
So pass this info around and don’t let TM get away with it.
