Solution to TMnet’s BT throttling/shaping?
Nov 30th, 2006 by ck
Are you a victim of suspected TMnet’s P2P traffic throttling recently? Are you suffering ultra-low download speed at 5KB/s while you used to get 100KB/s before? I’m one of the victims, even my favourite µTorrent gives me fluctuating download speed that will never exceed 15KB/s, that’s really disappointing.
But recently in Lowyat.net discussion forum, UNDERGROUND suggested that a chinese BT client called “Tuotu” can be used to download torrents at the speed we used to get, without being affected by TMnet’s throttling. Click here to access the topic (a simple guide is provided for those who can’t comprehend Chinese)
Wanted to download something desperately, I’ve then decided to give it a try, erm…poor user interface, ugly icon (why bunny? -_-), lack of some key functionalities. But hey, it actually works! I’m now able to download at 50KB/s for my RM66/month line!
I don’t know how exactly it works, I’m also not sure if this works for everyone (in the discussion topic, some people can’t seem to get decent speed still), but I guess there’s no harm giving it a try.
DISCLAIMER: I’m not encouraging illegal download of copyrighted material, but merely providing a suggestion to solve the slow BT download speed among Malaysian broadband users.
