HTTP:: The Latest uTorrent 2 0 Could Encourage ISPs to Stop Throttling
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Bandwidth throttling has become a fact of life for many Internet users and it's one of the major issues at heart of the net-neutrality debate. Most users don't like the practice, but ISPs say they are forced to do this because of network congestion. Now, uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client built by BitTorrent Inc., wants to meet ISPs halfway with the latest 2.0 version, still in beta, by enabling a form of throttling at the application level. The latest uTorrent comes with support for a new implementation of the BitTorrent protocol, created by the company behind uTorrent, called uTP, which was designed to lower bandwidth consumption, even if it means slowing down its own traffic. With the new protocol, the client will be able to detect chokes in the network and will bring down its own consumption, hopefully alleviating the problem. This should, in theory, if implemented on a large-enough scale, create huge savings for the ISPs. It is great for the network and po!
ssibly the other users, who get a better speed, but it does mean slower downloads and uploads for uTorrent. BitTorrent Inc. says that, in practice, it's mostly the upload speed that gets affected, seeing how this is usually smaller than the download speed for most DSL or cable connections. While some may worry that this...
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