BitTorrent Inc. is preparing to launch a redesigned implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that could benefit both ISPs and users. Internet providers have long been interested in having a tighter grasp on bandwidth consumption, so heavy users of P2P networks are a natural enemy. Many providers throttle BitTorrent connections by arguing that they affect the speed of other traffic.

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Glasnost can dectect whether your ISP is throttling specific traffic or not.

http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools

As for the major use of torrents aside , I think this is going to benefit everyone on the web , its only getting more crowded around here and with more and more streaming video sites ( the real culprits of bandwidth hogging) this might just alleviate things some.

This new protocol looks very interesting. And every step, even if it is small, to accelerate the downloads is good.
It is a shame that uTorrent is not an Open Source project.

Considering you pay for internet speed but not limited bandwith I think this is merely up for ISPs to make things up to not get crawled up.

You constantly pay for a service, in which more and more people connect but no one updates for the connections to be ok, the throttling is a cheap way out ISPs obligue to the user.

I am not in favor of this, and I am very much for net neutrality.

This could be good. Depends how it would work.

Sounds great, but I don't think anything will take the pressure off BT users; but maybe if they all started buying the stuff instead of downloading it for free."I know nothing! I see nothing! NOTHING!" as Schultz would say. I know showing my age...

So... care to explain how this works against net neutrality?

Why does it depend on how it works? If it is powered by the satisfaction one feels every time someone in the world opens a box of puppies, does that make the end result any better or worse? What if it uses some unexplainable property unknown physics... would that make the end result any better or worse? Why does it depend on how it works? I have some ideas, but it would be much more interesting if you could elaborate a bit.

I find it very interesting that torrents have been blasted for years by ISP's and yet here is uTorrent taking a proactive approach to help both the ISP and the torrent users out. Still, I'll wait until uTP is out of Beta before installing it.

Seems like a good idea to me, bandwidth needs to be shared until the lines get upgraded (or a more cost-effective alternative) increases net bandwidth.

I can see many torrent users bypassing this technology though (at least for as long as they can), many people, including myself at times, get bandwidth greedy.

It's interesting, but I don't see how this will keep ISPs from throttling or packet sniffing.

@Wagan8r: As the topic says, the protocol will check the delay and auto adjust down/upload speeds. It would become something like concious downloading, so the throttling won't be needed.

This sounds like it's going to help, but it's not really going to fix things for service providers. As more and more content becomes available (legally) online, bittorrent traffic will stop being such a big issue. Seems like streaming HD video is going to be the next big bandwidth hog.

This sounds nice, and id be fine with running uTP, especially if it makes things goes faster. I don't think tho it would get people off the backs of heavy downloaders because most of these "heavy" users are pirates, and service providers can't seem to stop them.

If it makes things go faster and work more efficiently, then why wouldn't someone want to try it out?

Since we are talking about torrent's it's well known that most of them are used to pirate software, music, movies, etc. and that is something that probably will never end, but at least Bit-torrent is taking steps in the right direction to help both sides out to use their protocol for what it was designed for.

It's up to the ISP to provide bandwidth I pay for...and my ISP handles that just fine... they dont need to throttle... they have the technology ...they dont sell something they cant provide.. but a lot of them do..

...i download a 10 -20 Gb a day ...at least.. no throtteling yet.. and not likely to ever happen ..

I really hope that this works out how they're hoping and can give people little boosts instead of just slowing the speeds down a bit, although I hardly ever use torrents so this doesn't impact me much.

My ISP only throttles my bandwidth during peak times 5pm to 11pm. I get full speed any other time so I do most of my big downloads first thing in the morning.

Bit Torrent in my opinion is the way to the future, we are starting to see sites which are very very bandwidth intensive, we are moving to the cloud, soon all our PC's and laptops will work from the Internet and so that wherever we are, we will be able to get the same personal experience from any machine we use, this is where BitTorrent will really work, also it needs to be properly employed on video sharing sites, if they can work it out somehow, to use bittorrent for content delivery, the bandwidth problem will be half solved.