Broadband & Bittorrents
Now that Jaring has launched its broadband service nationwide, the question on people’s mind now is this: Will the broadband providers block all bittorrent ports?
TMNet is Malaysia’s first nationwide broadband provider. However, its service has earned it the name TMNut. Hopefully Jaring will not follow in the footsteps of TMNut.
A majority of broadband users in the country are made up of the youth. So it is no surprise that most of the bandwidth is used for downloading torrents. Rumour has been spreading that these broadband providers will block the torrent ports effectively preventing people from downloading torrents. Many has voiced their intention to terminate their subscription should this happen. Of course we will just have to wait and see if this will eventually happen or not.
So here is my question: Besides surfing the net, checking emails and chatting with friends, what other uses are there for the internet? If most people use it to download torrents, it would be very much useless to use broadband once the ports are blocked. I can still check my emails and chat online with a dial-up connection. I don’t see why I should pay extra for the broadband if I don’t have much use for it.
What do you think?
February 19th, 2006 at 3:24 am
My torrents activities so damn slow today, it’s nothing wrong with the speed cause it’s just torrent that getting slow. I tried several client and got same result. This made me wonder if TMNet try to act smart rather then play with their stupid head(as usual).
Torrent is yet to be banned so why the Nuthead wanna block the port? If this happen, its mean I had to move underground back again and I’m tired of that. I will call my day on the net and find my pleasure elsewhere. I think I had enough, but if there is something new to replace torrent then I’ll pop in.
For now, broadband is nothing without P2P!