Some suppliers around the globe apply "throttling" of BitTorrent transfers to "manage" their infrastructure and avoid falling into a saturation point. Nobody wants a slower connection when using a file sharing protocol, therefore, have an idea of ​​what the providers more aggressive about using "throttling" BitTorrent traffic can help users to take action, including completely change supplier. The people of the Measurement Lab has updated the numbers on the application detector Glasnost the first quarter of 2012, and in some cases, the results are very striking.

Personally I must say that my internet connection does not have any kind of throttling BitTorrent traffic. The speeds at which I access my torrent box serve as confirmation, but I've also seen cases where a BitTorrent transfer falls apart, even with the client and ports configured correctly. If you think you've done everything right, and the amount of seeds is more than enough, but downloading never gets off completely, you may need to monitor more closely to your supplier. While I can understand that the provider seek to prevent your network is congested, I also understand that "not giving" the connection, and one would expect of the profits are invested with the aim of improving its infrastructure. The demand for greater speed increases every year, and although exchange protocols are key players are not the only ones with influence.

The people of Measurement Lab, supported by some high-profile names like Google, Amazon, Skype and BitTorrent itself, gives users free of charge different tools to measure and evaluate the Internet connection. One of the most important is Glasnost, which helps determine if a provider is applying throttling on a specific form of traffic. BitTorrent is one of the options, but also can study the Flash-based video (YouTube if you think too slow, you may be under throttling as well). Your data providers related to most of the globe have been recently updated. Some of the examples we found that despite popular belief, the throttling of BitTorrent in the United States is below five percent by providers like Verizon and AT & T. Even Comcast, remembered for blocking BitTorrent few years ago, has the level of throttling at three percent.



Things get more complicated in places like Canada and the United Kingdom, since the percentage of throttling BitTorrent traffic reaches 80 percent (Rogers Canada) and 65 percent (British Telecom). Looking at other countries of Europe, we find that the German provider Kabel Deutschland is the head of throttling in the country, with 37 percent. However, in the case of Spain virtually no throttling is recorded through the most important suppliers (Telefónica is an indicator of 4 percent, but may be within the margin of error). To name two Latin American countries as an example, Argentina and Mexico are throttling free, except for two suppliers: Telecentre in Argentina (64 percent), and Megacable in Mexico (47 percent). The numbers correspond to the first quarter of 2012, but by studying the numbers from previous years you reach a good idea of ​​the "behavior" of your provider against BitTorrent traffic. Also to be considered that Glasnost has an error close to 10 percent in both directions. In any case, the best you can do is to perform a Glasnost directly on your connection. Each diagnosis takes about eight minutes, and you need to have Java installed.

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