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 wintr
join:2004-10-13
Calgary, AB | I feel a need to defend After reading the entirety of this thread, I'm not sure what to say, but I need to say something.
I've been on with Shaw for about four years now, not using the i-xtreem. I've never had an issue with the network, the cable tech that showed up at my house and the few I had the pleasure of talking with on the phone have been courteous, informed, and helpful.
I don't use bit torrent. I've been a emule user for a while and never had any trouble. I've been running multiple servers off my connection for a while. I've never been contacted about my throughput.
OK, so I don't download gobs of stuff and don't host a lot. Sometimes my firewall logs look like WWII. But for the amount of money that I'm paying them I have received one of the most reliable and fast connections that I could hope for in my area.
It does come down to end user experience. Mine has been great. Had I been a BT user this would most likely irk me, but does one protocol kill the rest of my experience. No. I left Kazaa because it was crap, left win Mx because it didn't have a community. If BT is running slow, use something else. We do have other options. If BT is the thing, I'll first ask 'What are your really downloading that is so mission critical that you can bitch about it?' and then I'll say 'right. now leave, your bugging me kid'
They have every right to shape their network they way they want to. Don't like it, leave. But stop the whining about what they can do. If you don't want them to do it to you, figure out a work around (BT is cool, but it not a total paradigm shift) or leave. I left telus because I couldn't deal with them calling me to tell me the eighty dollars a month I was spending was properly suited to my habits. I left fido because the network coverage was too small. I stopped eating at McDicks because it made me fat.
Don't slag them because they have a business model that you don't agree with. Vote with your bucks, and free up more bandwidth for me.
Mind you, they might roll this out in the prairies and we'll discover that it hurts e-mule as well. But at that point, I'll find a work around or leave. But I won't threaten law suits when they are doing due diligence for their share holders.
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TELUS
join:2004-02-16
TELUS | Quote from WRX888:
"Just to add more fuel to the fire. It's not just BT that's being throttled. I've been trying my eMule the past couple days and my uploads are between 0.0-2.4kB/s when they're normally 24-28kB/s. Guess I'll be calling Telus today. Anyone want to buy a slightly used Motorola SB5100? Anyone else that is having BT problems having similar problems with eMule/eDonkey?"
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
It affects eMule, but not Alberta.
Do you know the amount of customers of Shaw's internet service in Calgary and Edmonton? | | |
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wintr
join:2004-10-13
Calgary, AB | Last first. Nah, couldn't tell you. But if their reading this speak up guys.
And as for the first, that's life, we wont shoot the messenger. But like I said, if and when it hits me, I'll find a work around or move on. But I still can't knock them for what their doing.
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