Internet Service Providers Around The World That Throttles Bittorrent / P2P
I live in a part of the world where many things are monopolized by the government. One of it is ISP. Most of the people living in Malaysia have no choice but to use ScreamyX. Of course there are also good ISPs, but their reach is limited at the moment. I realized that P2P throttling is an activity practiced by a lot of other internet service providers all around the world. Below is the list of bad internet service providers (ISP) by country. If your ISP is listed here and you have a choice to switch, then switch. The monthly fees that you pay is better off in the hands of ISPs who treat their customers right.
Argentina
- Telefonica de Argentina
- prevents .torrent downloads.
- Telecentro
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Fibertel
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Australia
- Unwired
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- iburst
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- exetel
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Belgium
- Telenet
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
Brazil
- Net Virtua
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Canada
- Rogers
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- prevents seeding.
- Shaw Cable
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Cogeco
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Eastlink
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Xplornet (Wireless + Satellite)
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- causes unsolvable NAT problem.
Chile
- Terra Net
- limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- VTR
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
China
- China Telecom
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- China Netcom
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- China Railcom / TieTong
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Shanghai Telecom
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
France
- Club-Internet
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Malaysia
- TM Net
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- JARING
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
Mexico
- Cable Vision
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
New Zealand
- iburst
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Pakistan
- Nexlinx
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Philippines
- Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
- limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume.
Portugal
- ONI
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
Spain
- Ya
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- Ono
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- CableSur
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
United Kingdom
- biscit
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- TalkTalk
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Eclipse
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Pipex
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- Freedom2Surf
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- BT Broadband
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- Tiscali / Toucan
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- Virgin Media
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
United States of America
- SusCom
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Atlantic Broadband
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Cablevision’s Optimum Online
- prevents seeding.
- RCN Starpower
- prevents seeding.
- Adelphia Cable Communications
- prevents seeding.
- iProvo
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Qwest
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- Cox
- limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume.
- Comcast
- prevents seeding.
- PlusNet
- limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume.
- limits bandwidth during certain times of the day.
- Charter Communications
- limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume.
Venezuela
- Intercable
- limits bittorrent bandwidth.
- limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume.
Bad ISPs
Causing trouble to bittorrent clients
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:22 am
You forgot Maxis from Malaysia. They only allow maximum of 3 GB of download to prevent users from using their 3G services to download bittorrent.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 am
maxis? 3GB limit? really? damn.
July 26th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Please add to the list.
Argentina: Iplan (www.iplan.com.ar)
July 26th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
what kind of throttling does Iplan do?
April 17th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Hi,
Brasil Telecom and GVT, both from brazil, limits bittorrent and emule bandwidth.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Brasiltelecom from Brazil limits emule and torrent:
http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tsbrtlt7.jpg
http://www.brasiltelecom.com.br
October 18th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
i am looking the best isp that can offer service in africa
January 6th, 2010 at 7:51 am
pretty good list – thanks