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Sep 23, 20077
Intermittent Bandwidth Throttling
Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a weird “throttling” effect on my Internet traffic. I’m on Qwest’s “Fastest” home DSL, and after I start up my BitTorrent downloading and uploading, it fluctuates. Every once in a while it will rapidly descend to 0 kb/s, and the connection goes dead, essentially. I can’t download, upload, surf the web, ping servers, and so on.
Then, after around 5 seconds or so, it ascends back to normal, and …
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