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[FYI] BT admits to bandwidth restrictions for file-sharing sites
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- Subject: [FYI] BT admits to bandwidth restrictions for file-sharing sites
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:56:35 +0200
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22089.html
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BT admits to bandwidth restrictions for file-sharing sites
By Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 08/10/2001 at 11:44 GMT
BT Openworld has been forced to admit it is restricting the bandwidth
for certain Web sites after furious customers starting compiling
evidence of interference. Previously BT had categorically denied any
such restrictions.
An email - sent out in response to an increasing number of complaints
- reads: "In the short term we have had to impose traffic controls on
particular applications & ports to ensure that our customers retain
their great Internet experience."
The applications and ports are all connected with peer-to-peer
applications such as Gnutella, eDonkey and Kazaa which allow users to
swap files with one another. BT said: "A small percentage of
customers using P2P applications use up a very large percentage of
the available bandwidth". Which is no doubt true but doesn't explain
why BT has previously denied all suggestions that it is restricting
the service.
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