Rogers and IP addresses

[Brandon Sandrowicz]

On 11/20/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:03:47AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > Rogers mail server won't let customers use "Vanity Domains" as they
> > call non-rogers domains.  This means that I cannot use it.
> >
> > My main grievance with Rogers is that they "traffic shape" stuff that
> > they have no business doing.  They sold me "Extreme" service claiming
> > great speeds and yet when I wish to get Linux .iso files via torrent,
> > the download speed is slower than with my crippled ADSL connection.
> > (My ADSL connection is quite slow because I'm too far from the Bell
> > Central Office.)  HTTP is quite fast but I like to use bit torrent so
> > that I'm providing a service rather than just consuming a service.
> >
> > The internet is a "world of ends" as the famous essay put it.  Rogers
> > wants to force us to be second class -- consumers, not citizens of the
> > internet.
>
> Torrents seem to work at OK speeds if your client runs in full
> encryption mode, which most clients seem to support now (bittornado,
> ktorrent, azerus(sp?  I don't do java stuff.)
>
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> Len Sorensen
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Deluge, rtorrent and some others support encryption.  Anything based
off of libtorrent has it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption
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