OT: BitTorrent, encryption, traffic shaping and the Internet

[Michael MacLeod]

I can speak from experience that Rogers is capping both up and down.
Downloading a linux iso via torrent at a friends house I watched in azureus
(not updated with the encryption stuff) as the download speed would increase
to approx. 30k/sec then come crashing down to less than 3k/sec, before
slowly making the climb back up to 30k/sec and then come crashing down
again. This continued indefinitely.

At my own domicile I have both Rogers Extreme and Bell High Speed, and the
Bell connection can give me a solid 160k/sec consistently without any
fluctuations (I've called, and due to distance from the CO and poor quality
lines my sync rate is half what it should be, about 1500megabits). The
Rogers connection however behaves exactly like the one at my friends house,
even with the same torrents that work great on the Bell connection.

Wow. I never thought I'd be talking up a Bell connection.

cheers
Mike

On 3/2/06, Amos H. Weatherill <right_maple_nut-/E1597aS9LT10XsdtD+oqA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I can tell you all that Routers and firewalls are not the problem
> if you are on Rogers Yahoo Hi-speed Internet.
>
> They are bowing to pressure from Groups like the RIAA and MPAA to
> cap P2P Networks.  They are accomplishing this by capping upload
> speeds and lying about having configuration problems with the
> Traffic Shaping software.
>
> My advice to anyone is that you should call Customer Service and
> Threaten to switch ISP's if they don't stop this BS.  If they
> discover that their behaviour is going to affect their bottom
> line, they will stop.
>
> Signed.
> Amos H. Weatherill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Aaron
> Vegh
> Sent: March 2, 2006 11:41 AM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OT: BitTorrent, encryption, traffic shaping and the
> Internet
>
>
> > Are you behind a NAT Router? If so you need to port forward the
> bittorrent
> ports.
> >
> I am, and I am... I don't think the router is the problem here...
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