New "ShaperProbe" tool detects ISP traffic shaping

[Cabalo]

You can view the page at https://filesharingtalk.com/content/1...raffic-shaping

[darkstate01]

Over here in the u.k we are punished from 9am till 9pm. from 9am till 3pm you are allowed to d/l 4 GB then 3pm till 9pm you are allowed to d/l 1.5GB. once you have d/l either size you are then punished for 5 hrs at 1/4 the speed you are fully paying for. It's daylight robbery they can get away with this crap. If I pay for 10meg I want 10 meg 24/7. Any other Industry would be taken to court over this for not providing what they are selling. watching hd content online is close to impossible because of the caching of the infomation,otherwords constant buffering while watching.

[duke0102]

Totally agree with you there darkstate01. If I went to mcdonalds and at times of the day there large coke/pepsi was half full you'd have trading standards busting the doors down like some sort of riot police in a terrorist situation but they don't give a monkeys about the phone side.
I know BT have announced there higher packages are truly unlimited but I still get random crappy speeds that they put down to any old rubbish excuses.

[wtj]

This article has a link to the ShaperProbe tool.
It sent me an "Artemis" trojan/virus
and changed the settings in :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\

Hey Editor,
was this a rarity or don't you proof these articles?

[hopkins35]

Over here in the u.k we are punished from 9am till 9pm

With which provider though? I spent many unhappy years being bandwidth throttled by Tiscali (now talktalk) and BT before doing some research and taking the plunge with a (then) relatively unknown company called Andrews & Arnold (aaisp.net) who then served mostly business users. They're a bit more expensive although you can tailor your price using their unit system and overnight 1 unit = 1TB (perfect for newsgroup DLing) and you get no bandwidth throttiling, no internet censorship and when there's an issue with BT over your line they don't half kick some arse to get it fixed - a couple of years ago I had 3 openreach engineer visits in a week and wasn't charged a penny!! Check them out if you're fed up with shit service from your ISP

[mjmacky]

This article has a link to the ShaperProbe tool.
It sent me an "Artemis" trojan/virus
and changed the settings in :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\

Hey Editor,
was this a rarity or don't you proof these articles?

You need to be more specific about which link, and did you download and run a program?

[wtj]

mjmacky:

There are two links to get YOUR OWN TEST

"ShaperProbe"

https://filesharingtalk.com/external/...aperprobe.html

and

"your own test"

https://filesharingtalk.com/external/...ab-tools#tool5

Follow them both and find out for yourself.

[duke0102]

I downloaded the one from the "(run your own test)." link and that seems to work fine with no virus for me. Kaspersky and Win 7 64bit, ran it under Safe Run (similar to sandbox) and all cool so far.

[darkstate01]

Over here in the u.k we are punished from 9am till 9pm

With which provider though? I spent many unhappy years being bandwidth throttled by Tiscali (now talktalk) and BT before doing some research and taking the plunge with a (then) relatively unknown company called Andrews & Arnold (aaisp.net) who then served mostly business users. They're a bit more expensive although you can tailor your price using their unit system and overnight 1 unit = 1TB (perfect for newsgroup DLing) and you get no bandwidth throttiling, no internet censorship and when there's an issue with BT over your line they don't half kick some arse to get it fixed - a couple of years ago I had 3 openreach engineer visits in a week and wasn't charged a penny!! Check them out if you're fed up with shit service from your ISP

Sorry about that,The company was Initially NTL who were great,Then changed to Virgin broadband. http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/tra...anagement.html

[hopkins35]

Sorry about that,The company was Initially NTL who were great,Then changed to Virgin broadband. http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/tra...anagement.html

Virgin are notorious for it. Our town was one of the trial areas for their 50Mb fibre optic broadband and I was really tempted to sign up as I'm currently only on 7Mb but when I read their reviews and their fair usage policy I thought stuff it, I get my full bandwidth 24/7 at the moment. Tiscali used to drop me down to speeds less than dial up (literally 2KB/S) at some times of the day and never more than 100KB/S between 3pm and 11pm and this on a 7Mb line.....crazy I'm never going back to that if I can avoid it!