Canadian ISP: Minimize Your BitTorrent Upload Speed!

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Torrent Freak has reported one of Canada's ISPs is customers to Minimize UL Speed!

Canadian ISP Shaw advises its customers to minimize their upload speed (set it to 1 Kb/s) to prevent their connections from slowing down. Sure, this way BitTorrent traffic will not be likely to interfere with your Internet browsing, but it will also take ages to download something off BitTorrent.

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Although they are saying that Filesharing is a great way to share information with friends and others on the internet, they're recomendation for setup is:

“Set the KB/s LAN max upload speed [0:unlimited] value to 1.”

The full article is at TorrentFreak