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They do. It's used in games very often for example. However, you have to cover this in your EULA (or whatever) and have to have fallback (either optional or aut
by rplnt 11y ago
They do. It's used in games very often for example. However, you have to cover this in your EULA (or whatever) and have to have fallback (either optional or automatic) because many ISPs would block such traffic.
- ikeboy 11y agoIn the US they aren't allowed to.
- ntonozzi 11y agoCan you elaborate on this? My current ISP definitely shapes torrent traffic to the point where it is impractical to download anything larger than a few KB.
- Zikes 11y agoAT&T does. My internet would become unusably unstable every time I torrented, so I called them about it. They said they blocked torrents to "comply with the law" or somesuch BS, nevermind that I was attempting to download a Linux distro.
- ikeboy 11y agoI didn't say they didn't, just that they weren't allowed to. See e.g. http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/05/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-cases/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/05/technology/fcc-net-neutralit...
- devicenull 11y agoYou may have also been hitting this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat I wouldn't put a lot of faith into what front-line tech support says. They'll often outright lie to you to get you off the phone.