Pando Media Booster that comes with the LOTRO downloaded uses up all of your effective upload bandwidth as it seeds files to other clients. It comes with the LOTRO downloader and I never recall being prompted to allow it to use my bandwidth.
My post to Turbine. I'm really pissed off at the moment.
My post to Turbine. I'm really pissed off at the moment.
I resubbed to LOTRO last week.
Since I resubbed, I noticed I was pinging very badly in games, and ping tests reported that I had incredibly high ping and jitter. I checked my internet usage over the past week, and I used up 70GB of bandwidth in less than 7 days. I downloaded a network monitor and kept closing applications until I found the culprit: Pando Media Booster.
I am Canadian and have a 95GB cap each month. This little application will have cost me upwards of $30. That's enough for 3 months of LOTRO.
That's 3 months Turbine won't be seeing.
I am handing this out as a warning to others. Uninstall Pando Media Booster right away.
To Turbine: purge this application from the download manager release. You've lost me as a customer...but who knows how many others you're going to lose because of this. This application is effectively malware.