The number of total Internet user is rapidly increasing these days as the Internet has become probably the biggest source of all types of information, entertainment and news. Most of the Internet users aren’t quite curious about their ISP and how they are treating him. The maximum number of average Internet users do not realize (or even do not care) whether their Internet service provider is actually giving them what they have paid for. Only a small portion of them who make large downloads should have already noticed that at certain times or for certain functions, Internet gets much slower than average. Most of the total network transfers are done by them. We can assume that 10-15% of Internet user cover up almost 80-85% of data traffic while only 15-20% (more or less) bandwidth is used by the rest 85-90% user. Thinking about it, the Internet Service Providers (ISP) began a few ways to re-shape it by limiting the bandwidth for certain protocols that used to transfer large files over the network. These are the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols used widely by many people such as Torrents, eMule or Ares Galaxy. Some providers also limit the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), another type of protocol used to make file transfers between servers.
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