| Some thoughts on what is going on Hi all, I'm a rogers customer from the downtown area of Toronto. I have been experimenting to find the perfect solution to the reduced speeds lately and this is what I have been able to come up with.
1) Use port 1720
2) If you are not getting high speeds but see a high number of peers and seeds switch to encrypted transfers (I use the latest version of Azerous) and wait up to 30 minutes for speeds to pickup.
My version of Azerous has a few settings for Encryption that are of note, the most important to us is the setting to not connect to non-encrypted peers. Encryption has to occur on both ends. If they are not allowing non encrypted peers then they will not allow you to connect if you are not encrypted. On the other end of the stick, if you encrypt then you will not connect to non encrypted peers (unless you check the box to allow).
That's all good, just check the box to connect to non-encrypted, No. Whats the point of encrypting then. So the really solution is for a major push in encryption for all BT clients.
And last but not least, if you don't have it get Peer Guardian 2. The major Corps are now using fake versions and connecting to our torrents to give us bad data. Peer guardian has millions of IP's that are part of this scheme indexed and will block them from accessing your PC, effectively telling them you are no longer seeding or d/ling the torrent.
Until we get more people with Encryption and a Peer shield like Peer guardian we will all be running slower and slower until it would be quicker to get a part time job to save money and buy the movies\games\tv shows..
I'm not trying to preach to the masses and I could be wrong with my approach but I can not test as a single node on the rogers network.
If we have any volunteers we could have a fuck rogers day and as a group test different combinations until the right one is found.
And for those looking to just share with their friends, build a web or ftp site and use dynip (google it, the service is free) to get a url to your computer (ie: »mycpu.dynip.com) No caps on that for me. |
| Hey thanks for the suggestion. Azurus is working great. I've been downloading for about 3 days straight and have reached about 20GBs of files already. Downloads are quite quick, especially if there are a high number of seeds and peers. It's really awesome to start to download again. Now I can enjoy all my shows that I usually miss. =) I'm running on the latest version of Azureus (2.4) and am running on port 30000. Great download speeds. averaging around 150 kb/s to 400 kb/s, all depending on how many people have the encryption turned on. Thanks again.
 Pissed off Rogers User |
