BT encrypted traffic throttler
p2pnet.net News:- The traffic shaping battle continues. Allot Communications announced today that their traffic management device NetEnforcer is able to detect, and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
Allot Communications states:
Previously, companies have been able to detect and manage applications based on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file transfer protocol. However, detecting encrypted BitTorrent has been nearly impossible.
They continue:
Today, Allot is announcing that its NetEnforcer is the first broadband traffic management device to identify and help manage applications based on the encrypted BitTorrent P2P file transfer protocol.
Bittorrent traffic is consuming 40-60% of ISP’s traffic, and more and more ISPs started to block, and or throttle BitTorrent traffic for this reason.
Earlier this year, the most popular BitTorrent clients implemented RC4 encryption, to counter this bandwith throttling. The bittorrent encryption seems to work pretty well, and the topic led to a heated discussion.
NetEnforcer is a new weapon for the ISPs in the battle for bandwidth.
The developers of Azureus, Bitcomet and µTorrent have some work to do if NetEnforcer can live up to its expectations.
Torrentfreak – The Netherlands
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August 30th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Time for bittorrent to go with RSS encryption. This is what they should of done in the first place in my opinion because I knew RC4 was only a temporary measure. And that the ISP would use something like this.
February 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I’m with BT,live very close to the gateway,pay for the ( up to – in small print ) 8mb service,yet have never got more than 5mb speed.Then they dictate how and when I use this … ummm it’s all so wrong!