SSL Can Increase Your Download Speeds


Friday, November 03, 2006

SSL Can Increase Your Download Speeds




How can this be?

SSL encryption helps beat ISP traffic shaping!




This is where SSL comes in.





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Anonymous Big Wazoo said...

Yes... my download speeds are INCREDIBLE! However... uploading of binaries is currently broken. This has been acknowledged by Customer Support early in the week and they say they are working on it.

10:30 AM 
Anonymous Donovan said...

Great to see, I am signing up right after I click publish!!

7:27 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Almost 50% increase here ;-))

11:36 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I had been thinking about asking about encrypted access for a couple years. Good to see that you have it now...

However, I had always held back asking about it because I figured that ISPs could also curve your usage based on destination and volume. Even if the ISP can't distinguish the traffic as being nntp, it can tell that it is news related because (1) it is going to a set of known servers (giganews), and because of the volume (when you download large chunks of data - not typical for SSL nor HTTP traffic). Any comments on this? Am I missing something? Or is it just going to be a matter of time for ISPs to adapt?

Well, having encryption does help privacy (at the very least, the ISP can't exactly tell what you're downloading). Thank you for the new functionality.

1:42 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yep have to agree with Anonymous.

My ISP looks like it has your news servers in a list and throttle based on destination as well. At midnight i am back up to full speed. :(

I need to proxy i guess or change my ISP.

1:55 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Time Warner Cable is doing the same thing, I never get better than 1.18 MB/s on a 8MB line...

3:25 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doesn't work with PlusNet, they still know its usenet traffic and shape accordingly.

7:38 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Has anyone figured out how to POST via SSL? If so, what program are you using?

9:48 AM 
Anonymous Arthur said...

Blueyounder 10m Cable subscription and a steady >9Kbps all day all night.

UNTIL LAST WEEK (JAN 07) i noticed speed was No higher than 7 Kbps

upgraded the giggernews from Platinum to Diamond
and ticked the Use SSL :)

Happy days, now its back to >9Kbps all day all night.

Works for me..... (for now)

12:18 PM 
Anonymous Jerry W Sisk Ii said...

It also seems that Windstream (Alltel) is limiting bandwith. I was running 2.5 Mbps without SSL. Now I am running 2.6 Mbps every once in a while. I don't understand why Alltel says I have 3Mbps bandwith, but they lock it out at 2.5. Giganews rocks either way.

11:18 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My main complaint with SSL transfers is it seems to seriously impact the latency of my DSL connection. Having 2 connections (SSL) at a time gives me a ping time to (I'm in the UK) of about 185-250ms. Using 2 connections without ssl gives me a ping time to of 73-140ms. Why on earth does having 2 ssl connections effect the latency of the account so much?

9:52 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have Cox standard cable at 10mbps and they are shaping at 1mbps. I tried the SSL and no luck there as well. I wish there was a way around this....I wish Cablevision was here b/c I was able to get 5mbps consistently when i was in New Jersey

9:27 PM 
Blogger Stephen said...

if using ssl encrypted connections on this does not work try using something like which creates a vpn to a sweedish internet connection.

5:47 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow, I have been trwaling through websites for ages, trying to work out why i was only getting 4.5kbps speed, switched my port to 443 and BANG! 760kbps, sweet!

4:20 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Virgin Media in the UK have recently started to throttle the bandwith on my usual port (by a factor of about 30). Swapped over to port 443 and it's now back to where it used to be :-)

2:36 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Port 563 has been blocked on Virgin media to Giganews now, using normal SSL encryption, only 256Bit L2TP/IPsec, gets around this now, Thanks giganews.

8:55 AM 

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