Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:25:02AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I've just finished downloading Fedora Core 6 for x86_64 and i386.  The 
> former I downloaded the my Rogers Extreme connection, the latter through 
> my ADSL connection.
> 
> The ADSL connection is pretty bad: I'm far enough from the CO that they've 
> throttled it way down to make it reliable.
> 
> Even so, both downloards took about the same time (~36 hours, if I 
> remember correctly).  True, the ADSL's dowload was about 10% smaller).  
> Both times seem pretty bad.
> 
> I don't know what to do about Rogers and Bit Torrent.  They advertised a 
> faster connection if I paid $100 for the modem.  But when it matters, it 
> is actually slower.  Much slower.  I wonder if there is a lawsuit waiting 
> to happen.

Based on what I have read, Rogers does deliberately throttle bittorrent,
at least outgoing.  I sometimes see good incoming speed on bittorrent,
but not very often.  I never see anything decent outgoing from it.
Meanwhile http downloads will go ahead at 600KB/s.

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