Negative speeds

[anon]

I basically copied an announce from the RM's log, pasted it in Notepad, and changed the following things:

• &event= - removed it altogether at first to make it look like a normal mid-download tracker update. After that, I changed it to stopped.
• &uploaded= and &downloaded= - changed them to -99999999
• &numwant= - left set to 200 for the first announce, and 0 for the second one.

Then I opened a cmd window, and ran the following command:

telnet (LL's hostname here) 80

After connecting (black screen), I pasted the first announce, hit ENTER twice, and waited for the tracker's HTTP 200, then checked the peerlist. (Nothing happened) Did the same with the "stopped" announce.

Except for the negative values, this is essentially cheating by yourself.

[Mr.unknown]

may be that person Speed is Not Good And Work in Negative speed...LoLz

[SealLion]

you mean he downloads at negative speeds??

Wow. That's some ISP he's got.

Not much worse than mine actually.

I hear all this advertising from my service provider telling me that I've got High Speed internet increased by 50%.
Ya right.
LIke maybe that'll actually really happen when hell literally does freeze over.
Because I don't see any evidence of it on my end here.
Even when I go to speedtest.net....not much has changed.
At least for me it hasn't.

If he can download at negative speeds, man....that's some slow service he's got.

Like, waaaaaay slow.


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[Dynamic]

I was told my my provider we "boost" your speed when you need it most...like when downloading pictures...I was like I have not seen any NEW BOOST except with the price you charge me...

He did not say anything.

I guess I just miss out on the "boost" they sent out.

[anon]

You're not alone. My ISP claims to be "the Broadband", and their slogan is "you go faster", when actually they shape P2P traffic, aggresively cache HTTP and FTP requests, and work around being overburdened by ocassionally taking connectivity away from members paying for the cheapest plans to give it to 6Mbit customers and cafes.