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FIOS blocks Bittorent?

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Aimster

Lifer
Does Verizon FIOS block Bittorent?

Fresh Windows 7 Install
Firewall turned off
Router configured for all open ports

What's going on ? 🙁
 
To bad it is used for MMO patching etc. Torrent version of WoW updater = maxed connection, 'http download' = 25k /sec. Fantastic when the patch is 1.2gig.
 
They don't block it(At least on my connection). Despite being powerful hardware wise, the stock router firmware is terrible for bittorent. The review I read showed it falling apart after like 100 concurrent connections. I flashed it with dd-wrt and its actually doing really well now but the Moca part of the router doesn't work anymore. Luckily I made friends with the guy installing my Fios tv(a few months after the internet was installed) and he gave me another router that I use just to send guide info and vod to my stb's.
 
n0cmonkey said:
The post mentioned slow downloads. Complain about the speed of http based downloads if you cannot use bittorrent. Or maybe the size of the patch. 1.2G? WTF?

I'm old. Get off my lawn.
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No doubt they should be able to do better than 25K/s via HTTP, but BitTorrent will almost always be faster.
 
n0cmonkey said:
The post mentioned slow downloads. Complain about the speed of http based downloads if you cannot use bittorrent. Or maybe the size of the patch. 1.2G? WTF?

I'm old. Get off my lawn.
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If bittorrent doesn't work because my ISP is blocking it, why would I complain to Blizzard about it?

For companies like those, distributed downloads take a massive load off the central servers while allowing machines that are closer to the client to assist in the download process. If you made a 1.2 gig patch HTTP only for a few million users... I would need to research even how to size that pipe up.

Torrent is hated primarily because it is over used (by people that would never admit they are pirating or getting.. ahem their 47 Linux ISO's a week) and like any protocol out there, overloading it will cause it to lag or break.

Example in blizzard's case they modify their downloader from a stock bittorrent client in order to limit the number of sessions to reduce the change that crappy routers will bomb due to overload. They seem to really try to make it net friendly rather than some clients that open 5000 sessions a second. Properly used it is pretty useful.
 
imagoon said:
If bittorrent doesn't work because my ISP is blocking it, why would I complain to Blizzard about it?

For companies like those, distributed downloads take a massive load off the central servers while allowing machines that are closer to the client to assist in the download process. If you made a 1.2 gig patch HTTP only for a few million users... I would need to research even how to size that pipe up.

Torrent is hated primarily because it is over used (by people that would never admit they are pirating or getting.. ahem their 47 Linux ISO's a week) and like any protocol out there, overloading it will cause it to lag or break.

Example in blizzard's case they modify their downloader from a stock bittorrent client in order to limit the number of sessions to reduce the change that crappy routers will bomb due to overload. They seem to really try to make it net friendly rather than some clients that open 5000 sessions a second. Properly used it is pretty useful.
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Because 25K/s is ridiculous.
 
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