{"id":4425,"date":"2008-05-24T16:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/05\/24\/glasnost-not-actually-correct\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T23:01:49","slug":"glasnost-not-actually-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/glasnost-not-actually-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasnost Not Actually Correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI finally got a result from the Glasnost server after several unsuccessful attempts, but it&#8217;s unfortunately not correct:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"indent\" style=\"color: rgb(119, 119, 119);\">Is BitTorrent traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6881) throttled?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"indent\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/pics\/square.png\" alt=\"*\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" \/><br \/>\n          <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">2 out of 2 BitTorrent transfers were<br \/>\n          interrupted while uploading (seeding) using forged TCP RST packets.<\/span><br \/>\n          It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading BitTorrent traffic to our test server.\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/pics\/square.png\" alt=\"*\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" \/><br \/>\n          <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The BitTorrent download worked.<\/span><br \/>\n          Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"indent2\">\n                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/pics\/square.png\" alt=\"*\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" \/><br \/>\n                  <span style=\"color: green; font-weight: bold;\">There&#8217;s no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads.<\/span><br \/>\n                  In our tests a TCP download achieved minimal 2079 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved<br \/>\n                  maximal 2147 Kbps. You can find details <a href=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/bt.php?id=67.169.90.32&#038;done=yes&amp;btport=6881&amp;repeat=2&amp;port2=4711&amp;sysinfo=Windows%20XP,x86,5.1,Sun%20Microsystems%20Inc.,1.6.0_05&amp;btup0=reset&amp;tcpup0=349525r&amp;btup1=reset&amp;tcpup1=494378r&amp;btup2=reset&amp;tcpup2=651491r&amp;btup3=reset&amp;tcpup3=965539r&amp;btdown0=2147480&amp;tcpdown0=2095177&amp;btdown1=2131128&amp;tcpdown1=2079993&amp;btdown2=2122952&amp;tcpdown2=2135216&amp;btdown3=2126456&amp;tcpdown3=2151568&amp;#\" onclick=\"openDetails()\">here<\/a>.\n\t          <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"indent\" style=\"color: rgb(119, 119, 119);\">Is BitTorrent traffic on a non-standard BitTorrent port (4711) throttled?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"indent\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/pics\/square.png\" alt=\"*\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" \/><br \/>\n          <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">2 out of 2 BitTorrent transfers were<br \/>\n          interrupted while uploading (seeding) using forged TCP RST packets.<\/span><br \/>\n          It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading BitTorrent traffic to our test server.\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/pics\/square.png\" alt=\"*\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" \/><br \/>\n          <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The BitTorrent download worked.<\/span><br \/>\n          Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"indent2\">\n                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/pics\/square.png\" alt=\"*\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" \/><br \/>\n                  <span style=\"color: green; font-weight: bold;\">There&#8217;s no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads.<\/span><br \/>\n                  In our tests a TCP download achieved minimal 2135 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved<br \/>\n                  maximal 2126 Kbps. You can find details <a href=\"http:\/\/87.98.190.188\/\/glasnost\/\/bt.php?id=67.169.90.32&#038;done=yes&amp;btport=6881&amp;repeat=2&amp;port2=4711&amp;sysinfo=Windows%20XP,x86,5.1,Sun%20Microsystems%20Inc.,1.6.0_05&amp;btup0=reset&amp;tcpup0=349525r&amp;btup1=reset&amp;tcpup1=494378r&amp;btup2=reset&amp;tcpup2=651491r&amp;btup3=reset&amp;tcpup3=965539r&amp;btdown0=2147480&amp;tcpdown0=2095177&amp;btdown1=2131128&amp;tcpdown1=2079993&amp;btdown2=2122952&amp;tcpdown2=2135216&amp;btdown3=2126456&amp;tcpdown3=2151568&amp;#\" onclick=\"openDetails()\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"indent2\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent2\">Immediately before and after this test I seeded a Torrent successfully, at a rate in the range of 30-40 K Bytes\/sec. So I know seeding is possible on my connection, but Glasnost claims it isn&#8217;t. This is not a cool tool.<\/p>\n<p>Still no answers to my questions, despite a promise to have some by Friday. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a result from the Glasnost server after several unsuccessful attempts, but it&#8217;s unfortunately not correct: Is BitTorrent traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6881) throttled? 2 out of 2 BitTorrent transfers were interrupted while uploading (seeding) using forged TCP RST packets. It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading BitTorrent traffic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/glasnost-not-actually-correct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glasnost Not Actually Correct&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-19n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}