Internet hai toh friendship hai Friendship hai toh sharing hai

 Just enjoyed (read:ROFL) Airtel India's new advertisement . It goes something like this :-

"Internet hai toh friendship hai
Friendship hai toh sharing hai"

The above lines means that if there is Internet , there is friendship and if there is friendship , there is sharing . This is true but not with Airtel . The largest sharing network is torrents . Torrents with high seeds usually get good speeds but Airtel is really throttling torrents and the speeds are decreasing by the hour . The initial stage was experimental wherein they resorted to simple TCP connection-reset method to drop the connection (both sides, so its not enough to simply drop reset packets on client end). This was leading to <1KBps download rate (occasionally lost reset packets allowed very few connections through) . Now they have moved to other more sophisticated methods to throttle torrent traffic. Currently they are using Sandvine traffic shapers to cap torrent downloads . Most technicians dont know what throttling and traffic shaping is. Also, peer to peer means "someone is leeching your connection" to them. Unfortunately this is not unexpected, you dont expect an end user support person to be network specialist. However there is no way to escalate it higher up (or they hide it pretty well). So its time for airtel to change the song of the advertisement to :-

"Internet hai toh friendship hai
Friendship hai toh throttling hai"

which means that if there is Internet , there is friendship and if there is friendship , there is throttling , which is very appropriate for Airtel India .