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Re: Torrent Speeds very slow Jan 31, 2007. Whats going on?

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Well this stinks.

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been getting some slow downs with azurues some torrents achieve 150KBs but that was from one peer. I seem to be able to only connect to 20-30 peers at any given time only compared to 400+ before. Speed used to be a constant 300KBs with times hitting 689KBs now its 1KBs-27KBs. Now the only good thing about rogers are their pings.

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Short of Ted implementing a massive deployment of those throttling boxes in the TO region for the simple reason of congestion management... the only other thing I can think of is Rogers slowing you guys down to test Elite speeds in surrounding areas. It shouldn't last too long, couple of weeks. Look on the bright side, you'll be the first to freaking fly at the new speed tiers!

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I too have noticed my speeds go down. Just yesterday, I was able to download at good speeds. I hope this is temporary.

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Yup, I haven't found a way to change that, only thing I can change is the postal code. I'd Love to know how to change that...

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I've had problems since yesterday in Toronto, Scarborough (Sheppard and Warden).

I used to get full speeds from torrents with encrypted protocol, now the speed hovers around 1 kb/s with ocassional short speed spikes that bring it up toward 30 kb/s.

Still getting full speeds at Speedtest.net so it looks to be torrent throttling. Weird, because I thought protocol encryption would make it impossible for them to detect.

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same here in mississauga.. turtle bt speed, avg max 10kb/s, very frustrating~

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Yep, my spidey-senses are tingling... the upspike in "chatter level" is too great to ignore. Something big is happening. Let's hope it's Elite, or you guys in TO are going to have a hell of a time with torrents for some time...

My bet is ELITE testing. This exact scenario has happened in previous speed tier changes.

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Ah.. Thanks abunch Pulp ^_^. Changed the postal code and it worked. Guess using 12345 shows up as someplace in NY.

yup im in Kitchener Ontario and my speeds are really slow. Im a new user that had horrible internet so i wasnt to mad that i had speeds of 60kbps, but is it true that you guys get like 300kbps on a normal day? At the moment its really slow, like 3 or 5 kbps

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Yup, until Tuesday night I always maxed out my speeds both up and down. Now I'm getting between 200-300kB/s down and 5kB/s up (unless I'm seeding to another rogers user).
My nodes not overlaoded, there's no reason for this. Stupid Rogers.

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Speeds are "fine" on torrents, 400kb/s on rogers express last night at peak hours in Kitchener.

It started slow, but not it is full out throttling. Hopefully this doesn't last long, nothing we can do though.

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I think this is not a new Speed Tier being tested out ... but rather a renewed throttling strategy. Speed tests show I'm somewhat near my Advertised speeds, but when downloading and uploading it is no where near that.

I think Ted is fucking-up again, did he forget the real reason Protocol Encryption was made was to defeat both Rogers and Shaw, all those other ISP's just came along. I hope history doesn't have to repeat itself.

Speaking on the Protocol Encryption ... I'm pretty sure the system wasn't broken ... but rather the BT patterns even the DHT connections was probably throttled. Those two elements and the third being the fact that BT makes sooo many connections in such a small amount of time that gives it away to it being BT.

Sooner or later though, Rogers has to face the reality that BT has become entrenched as a legitimate Content Delivery method. BT is appearing in Routers, coded into games, online stores will shortly be using it, Linux distro's spread around with the help of BT, and more uses of BT are coming by the day so to speak. Rogers can't keep this a hush hush, they have to come with an actual comprimising solution. We the users understand the system shouldn't be fully abused ... but Rogers has to understand that we pay for this service to not just go look at e-mails at high-speed but rather enjoy the digital media found on the net. Really this is on Rogers court to come with an alternate comprimising solution ... and no stopping BT is not a solution. They should implement those Caches Bram spoke about, they should give the heavy user an alloted time like Midnight to Morning time to download heavy files ... rest of the morning they can throttle all they want. A good company is one that is adaptive and proactive, Rogers hasn't adapted BT or even the bigger picture is that Rogers as an ISP is not ready for Web2.0 period.