Sky blocking torrents completely.

Been having a headache all morning for the first time with sky, none of my torrents would transfer anything in any direction, switched ports, rebooted router etc etc and nothing worked.

Then i turned on encryption and voila, torrents work again. This is a horrific day, gonna have to go looking for a new provider again, after being so happy with sky they come out with this two faced decision, one one side they are now unlimited, on the other they are blocking torrents...

Are you on LLU or Connect?

My torrents are working fine with it on and off, I'm on Connect.

Although they are VERY slow with encryption off!

Edited by BuckleZ (Tue 16-Sep-08 15:36:09)

youve kept up with news heres one story

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3631-bpi-and-six-major-broadband-providers-sign-agreement.html

answer dont use public trackers use private ones with a key then all they know is its traffic and yes then encryption is not necessary

Edited by BasilBrush (Tue 16-Sep-08 15:37:03)

Im on LLU. I had seen that story a while ago but i never thought a blanket ban on torrents would be put in. Im gonna start shopping around then, any reasonable isps out there that offer good speeds and dont throttle?

It may not be a blanket ban, but rather traffic management and this when restricting torrent speeds with some systems create the impression of a block

I dunno, 0bps screams of an attempt to completely block torrents and thats on any of the ports i have attempted to use, it takes forever to form even a single connection and in the event that the speed does start to increase it quickly drops straight back to 0.
This is the first issue ive had since joining sky over a year ago and i thought the market had grown up but it seems not.

I just fired up vuze and my torrents are all sitting at 0 connections and 0 transfer speed after 10 mins...

Just fired up Azureus and already upto 250kB/s, no transport encryption or anything, on Sky Max. You sure you aren't blocking your own ports or you have turned off something?

torrents will slow down with encryption off as a lot of people now reject non encrypted peers.

It aint me, believe me, ive been a torrent user since they first appeared and been jumping isps as they have been throttled (Pipex). Last night i downloaded an album off ocremix (free game music remixes) and was seeding it fine last night. Then today my torrents just ain't moving, i've changed nothing on my end so it HAS to be sky, and it just happens to coincide with their no FUP rubbish. If it doesnt fix itself by tomorrow im gonna give them a ring and find out why im being shafted.

Edit: Oh and this machine is a DMZ so i KNOW im not blocking ports anywhere.

Edited by deleted (Tue 16-Sep-08 20:42:59)

Its definitely not a global block else this board would be very busy, I've just tested a ubuntu download and utorrent is working fine, I haven�t heard of Sky specifically throttling individual users to zero so I can only assume the problem is likely at your end, maybe a firewall problem.

Have you tried utorrent (even temporarily) it works fine with upnp no need to setup port forwarding.
Good Luck

Ok, uTorrent does work ok. Thing is, i tried vuze on both machines i have and it worked on neither machine, turned off all firewalls, changed dmz and all sorts. Gonna have to reset router and see if that solves it as everything points to the router blocking the traffic rather than anything else. At least im gettin somewhere now. Just frustrating that it all worked fine yesterday then all of a sudden it decides not to work.

Guess i jumped the gun a bit anyway.

4 hours later and 3 restarts of Azureus, just so I can play some online games, and still pulling down at a healthy rate. Limewire is fine. Ran uTorrent via WINE a while back and that is fine too. I see nothing to suggest that they are blocking traffic. Azureus/Vuze are both Java based, have you updated Java and perhaps broken something?

I've always found Vuze to be a nightmare, it would hardly ever get a decent speed. I have since moved over to uTorrent which is fantastic.