On Friday 10 August 2007 11:44, Gadi Cohen wrote: > As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have > problems with your ISP.
That was true in the past. Some ISPs today are already using Layer 7 protocol detection - so the ports doesn't matter anymore. Some even QoS HTTP positively over everything else (so encryption wouldn't help - and the effect is global, not just P2P) - instead of negatively QoSing P2P. For example, a CVS checkout over the internet that takes a few days because of this... WHOIS queries that timeout, stuff like that. I will not point out ISP names (don't want to get sued...) - but the phenomena is definately here - and calling tech support will get you a complete denial. Fact is that people I know who had such problems and switched an ISP, and the problem was gone immediately. Not saying that this is necessarily Shlomo's problem. He might be out of NAT table space and stuff like that. I am just answering the ISP's "QoS by port" claim. -- Shimi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
