3000 peers (and my fight with the ISP), page 1

seeding 3000 torrents and still counting. 3008 right now, to be specific. mostly of course tm-radio and tm undead torrents, but my recent increased uploading activity has contributed strongly as well, and before most of my current uploads are removed in a few months, i have shared 700 torrents in last few months. my uploading connection has been maxed out for the past 3-4 months, that i can say for sure.

and what do you know, two days ago i got my internet account suspended, and after almost an hour long wait i talked to some maniac who told me my ISP (Comcast) is now monitoring how much bandwidth people are using, and if it's over 250GB/month that Comcast decided enough (since aug, 2008), you're in trouble.. i guess they've caught up with me finally, cause they told me i've used twice that amount in october, and i'm sure i've been using that much for at least 2-3 more months. so now i don't know if i want to continue with them. and the only acceptable other source for internet is Verizon Fios - i cannot get it in chicago... what to do...

 What a bummer!!

All this money we pay for Comcast (UNLIMITED) Services and now they have restrictions.  

Fios is in my area but not in my neighborhood yet, so if this were to happen to me I would be stuck between a rock and a hard place.  

may i suggest a dedicated server  

i am planning to get it soon, but i have to earn it so i am waiting to get high marks    

why would i need a dedicated server? i already have one. if i were looking to seed as much as i can - i would consider anything out there, but i am not looking to "seed the world with music", i'm just seeding from my house, using my personal internet connection. using a seedbox is a pain in the butt, especially when you wanna check out what you downloaded, listen to something, etc, etc...

i'm just strongly pissed at my ISP. they have raised my upload speed from 90kb/s to 250kb/s, but at the same time they've limited the bandwidth... not even considering downloads, uploading/seeding at such a speed will deplete my monthly 250GB limit in 2 weeks or less, that is clean slate uploads, no downloading or anything... if i ever knew about it - i'd stop this pain long ago... now i'm just going to seed and seed and seed and see when they turn me off again - just go to a different provider, fall back to 90kb/s uploads. =( well, what else can i do?

how can i get Verizon to bring Fios to Chicago? their highest speeds would be 50/25mbps... 25mbps upload, that's like 3MB/s, 10 times more than i have with this full-of-itself Comcast..

yeah, bro... they told me: "unlimited" NOW means "you can get online any time day or night - it's always there for you", but it doesn't mean unlimited transfers...

it's same as dedicated servers.. they keep telling "unmetered bandwidth", but after asking them what that means, they say "we got a fat channel, but when one of our clients uses TOO MUCH of it, - we start throttling their connection, thus letting them use less bandwidth". although our current providers told me that monthly usage has to be over 20-30TB (ours usually is 1-2TB) before any throttling commences...

this just sucks... every damn company is so proud of "no hidden stuff", and every damn company has those hidden tricks and loopholes and all kinds of shit..

Whilst on the topic of ISP, I will add my situation.

I change ISP to get a better connection than what i have, across to a diffent company/provider, this takes over two weeks. I get to the stage in which they are setting up my internet, for them to say that you are entitled only to 256k Down and 56k up, what a joke..... At the initial contact with the company i specified the speed that i had and what i wanted when the order was placed!

I am now stuck with heading back to the original ISP. Another 2 week wait to get things up and running. I have little regard for ISP.

Good luck Slash, I reckon you have a uphill battle ahead. Just for a comparison, my previous ISP starts to choke at 500 connections. It is like we are still stuck in the middle ages, with the dinosaurs.

I suggested a seedbox, cuz i know how bad ISP can get, and i am living in with the dinosaurs like moocowdan said. internet in Egypt scuks

just wanted to help. Anyways good luck with ur fight

I am banned on the Comcast network for exceeding this 250 GB/month limit.
If you can have FiOS get it. The Verizon people say they do not limit the traffic. Beside, you will pay less for better service.
Until then stay under the 250 GB/month limit because on DSL line you'll get 300 kb/s (~40 kB/s) upload.

yeah, here i will summarize what happened and how and why...

and to say first, SpasV, i cannot get FiOS all i try - they simply do not do it in chicago, but they do in all suburbs, that's what bothers me... but in chicago they probably cannot put anymore lines or i dunno...

so what happened was, and i'm guessing, same happened with SpasV, first i received a phone call in second half of november saying to call them, i didn't, so in a week got suspended, i called, they restored services, but told me to limit, because in october i exceeded 250gb limit, so i said ok, i'll try to limit. second - 22nd of december they suspend me completely for 1 year, because i have overused my limit in november, particularly by using 750gb of bandwidth. that's why i think they simply set me up, whatever i did after first call in november, even if i stopped using it completely (and i most likely have already used up 400GB and have overused the limit already by that time of first call), i would still end up loosing it all in december, nothing could be done....

comcast sucks ass. why give all that speed and then to limit transfer? why ban some of users, while i am sure 95% of users don't use 25GB per month, thus they loose business and get haters.. well, whatever, they such ass.

Same thing happens in Belgium. Most formula's have monthly volume limits (only recently did a few formula's without them appear), but those that officially don't have them actually do, if you read the fine prints. In my case, Telenet has 3 formula's, a basic one with a 100 Gb per month limit (30 mbps dl, 5 mbps ul, so speed itself is ok), while the more expensive other ones don't have a volume limit, officially.

But then there's their "Fair Use Policy" that states that in order to give everyone a fair share of the net, when you use up more then 200 Gb or so per month (depending on the formula) you'll be put on a sort of blacklist. Anyone on it will have their speed severely limited during hours with sufficient traffic, which is in the week between about 06h and midnight, and the whole 24h in the weekend, which is basically the same thing as a monthly volume limit.

Another thing is that they openly use traffic shaping, throttling the P2P upload speed to near 0 at the above mentioned traffic-"heavy" hours, also thanks to their "Fair Use Policy". They have a monopoly on the cable here anyway, so they can do as they please. They were a government-owned company, but the politicians forgot to give it rules to follow when privatising it.

So instead of paying more for another formula I stayed at the basic 100 Gb per month one and got me a kimsufi 2G from OVH (12 euro per month for 500 Gb on a 100 mbps connection, dedicated so complete freedom), which gives me far more speed (and possibilities in general) for significantly less then I'd pay extra to an ISP. Also, normally NX server (what I use for remote desktop to access TM) supports sound as well, though you'll most likely have to install a virtual sound card on the server first.

its worse here, only one company offers unlimited.

the main 3 have like 100gb a month for 80 bucks...i know a ripoff but its canada...

Here the basic 100 Gb per month is 25 euro's per month, while the others are 46 and 66, so the basic combined with a 12 euro per month dedi is cheaper (and still better) then those more expensive offers.

80 per month (even dollars) for that is really excessive though, I thought belgium was the worst possible. It's bad compared to the rest of (western) europe, but appearently it's much worse over there...