OT: BitTorrent, encryption, traffic shaping and the Internet

[Aaron Vegh]

It's worth noting that the traffic shaping is designed to limit UPLOAD
rates, not download. Cable internet is pro at handling downloading,
but crapola at uploads. As a result, I notice my download rates are
fine, but uploads are a trickle...less than a 1K/sec, very often.
According to the Rogers tech I spoke with, it should be higher than
that, but they're still working on the technology... in short, they're
still figuring it out.

I've been seeing a lot abotu this today (it was on Digg, for goodness'
sake!), so I'm going to try out the encryption with Azureus and see if
it helps.

Cheers,
Aaron.

On 3/1/06, Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Zoltan wrote:
> > Meng Cheah wrote:
> >> Oops.
> >> Allow me to rephrase "Does anyone know of encrypted bittorrents and
> >> traffic shaping?"
> >> to "How do you detect if your ISP is using traffic shaping?'
>
> > This should give you the basics:
> > http://www.yyztech.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=73
> >
> > The story has been going around for the last few months that Rogers is
> > employing some kind of traffic shaping for BT clients.
> > As for detecting it, as far as I know, the  only way would be if you
> > notice your transfer speeds have dropped drastically since you
> > originally used it.
> >
>
> Thanks. I was looking up how to detect traffic shaping and couldn't find
> anything than what you wrote above.
>
> I'm downloading Gentoo using uTorrent on Windows to see if it is any
> faster. Getting about 175kB/s but I was getting that using BitTornado in
> Linux on the rare occassion (the last rare occassion was 2 days ago).
> Will experiment some more. Thanks again.
>
>
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