Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

[Michael MacLeod]

>From what I can tell, the cable ISP's in Canada are much more throttle
happy. Rogers uses a couple fo techniques to determine bittorrent traffic,
and yes, throttles it. Near as I can tell, Sympatico does not throttle
anything. I suspect they will on their new Fiber to the Premises service,
however. Before Rogers started throttling bittorrent connections, I could
easily reach 450-500+KBps. Afterwards, download speeds rarely broke 30, but
upload speeds continued unabated.

Shaw is actually the worst. In addition to throttling your downloads from
various services, they also use Per Packet Scheduling, or Per Packet
Routing. Since PPS almost gaurantees that your packets will arrive at the
other end in a completely random order, it destroys any services like VoIP.
Funnily enough, they seem to implement PPS around the same time as they roll
out their own Digital Home Phone service in an area. Go figure.

On 10/26/06, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> I've never used Bit Torrent, but downloading SUSE 10.1 from a mirror was
> nowhere near that long.  It might be an issue with BT.  What happens if
> you try going directly to a mirror?
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