The Azerues Wiki compiles a lists of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) around the world that have been monitored to affect Bittorent traffic in their networks. In the Philippines, they one list one such candidate. Guess which one it is.
The following is a list of Internet service providers (ISPs) that are known to cause trouble for BitTorrent clients or other P2P clients and the reason why. If you are using one of the following ISPs, please consider finding a new, better one {source}.
Philippines
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT)
Score Card:
Limits BitTorrent bandwidth: No
Tier 1 partners might shape: No
Proposed Encryption Level: 0
Limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume: Yes
Limits bandwidth during certain times of the day: No
Prevents Seeding: No
Prevents/filters .torrent download: No
Causes Unsolvable NAT problem: Yes
Offers no real flatrate: No
Looks like Globe Telecoms and Eastern Telecoms are not on the black list. According to PLDT’s scorecard, they’ve been observed to limit a customer account’s “bandwidth” if they notice high traffic volumes. I’m not sure how much is high traffic but tolerance levels could be in the range of 10 – 20GB per month.
Scrolling thru the list, you’d notice that a lot of telcos in other major countries are actually limiting bittorent traffic in general — Argentina, Australia, China, Brazil, France, Germany, Malaysia, Portugal, Spain, UK, and the US. Looks like we’re better off than most of them since PLDT is only clamping down on the heavy users.
I’ve been a user of Sky Broadband 3mbps for 3 years , this year 2012, I began to experience terrible traffic throttling for Bittorrent it would max at 35 Kb/s for Torrent while i get sometimes 400 Kb/s with IDM. seems that Sky began to throttle down our bittorrent traffic =/.
and BTW : i’ve been torrenting since three years, only this year i began to experience throttling on bittorrent traffic, I got a trial from a VPN service (IPredator) and i experienced high bittorrent speeds while using bittorrent over VPN .
Hope this helps somebody out there..