OT: Globe and Mail reports on ISP Traffic Shaping

[Tro]

On Thursday 29 November 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:18:51PM -0500, Tro wrote:
> > Good to see the media covering it. Unfortunately, it doesn't mention
> > Rogers' insane throttling of all encrypted traffic that they don't
> > recognize.
>
> A few days ago I managed to download a few video files of some talks
> from UW's CSC, and was surprised my rogers connection allowed them to
> transfer at 900KB/s.  I wonder if their traffic shaper was down for
> maintenance or something.

I'm able to download at that speed as well. It's the uploading that they 
throttle heavily.

Tro
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