Comcast decided P2P throttling was the cure to its congestion ills. The FCC didn't agree, and Comcast eventually moved to throttling based on usage of any type, as opposed to P2P. But at least one ISP believes the way to reduce BitTorrent congestion is to speed up transfers, not slow it down.TorrentFreak notes that Israeli ISP Bezeq has gone 180% in the opposite direction from those throttling P2P and BitTorrent. Bezeq caches torrent downloads on their own network. This reduces the load on the network decreases and saves on bandwidth as there are less connections to peers outside Bezeq's network.
It works as follows. When a Bezeq customer downloads a .torrent file the ISP will intercept it and add (!) a new tracker to it. The additional tracker is only accessible for Bezeq customers and it connects to a high speed web-seed hosted on Bezeq network. As a result the files will be downloaded much faster. A Bezeq customer told us that almost all ‘popular’ torrents he downloaded connect to local seeds.The question is, how long before copyright holders and media groups such as the RIAA and MPAA get wind of this and protest. Of course, since this is an Israeli ISP, those groups don't really have much control over Bezeq, but perhaps the IFPI ...
One things for sure: this would never work in Europe, or the U.S., or Australia. Enjoy it while you have it, Bezeq customers.
1 comments:
I THOUGHT the torrents were downloading faster recently! Finally, something good has come out of being a Bezeq customer!
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