anakin66
@eastlink.ca
| Price too high and torrent throttling unacceptable.
Eastlink is priced far too high due to lack of competition and regulation. $55/month for standalone internet, and $96/month (both prices not including tax) for high speed bundled with regular full-tier cable. Upload speed is pathetically low for a 15 Mbit service (667 kbits), and the hateful practice of torrent throttling reduces speeds to dial-up or worse as at least 90% of all files are now shared through torrents.
I sometimes have trouble getting torrents to upload at 1 kB per second, while other times it jumps to 20 or 25 kB per second. Downloads are also severely limited unless you are visiting a site they have an agreement with. If there were more competition (any competition besides Aliant), Eastlink would not be getting my money. |
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Satanicat
@eastlink.ca
| You couldn't be more wrong. Getting slow speeds on torrents is the end-users' fault for not properly setting up their home network. I constantly get high-speeds through Eastlink, and have for years, even when they capped users for downloading too much (which has since been abolished).
I think there is something seriously incorrect with your setup, as it reflects the complete opposite of the speeds I am able to attain. |
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db1
@shawcable.net
| reply to anakin66
Just enable "transport encryption" in your torrent program and speeds will be back up to normal. (If your BT program doesn't have encryption, try Azureus.) Encrypted P2P traffic cannot be detected/throttled. So unless ALL internet traffic is throttled by your ISP*, encrypted torrents will work fine.
I've had both Rogers and Shaw high speed service, and neither can throttle encrypted torrents.
(*Of course, doing that would be corporate suicide!) |
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gone
@eastlink.ca
| reply to anakin66
This is the fastest connection I have ever seen as far as downloading at least.
And for uploading, it's to be expected to be rather slow. |
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shamrock_ns
join:2003-01-27
Dartmouth, NS
| I wish I had seen this thread before. I just got through posting about my irritation with Eastlink's throttling practices.
They don't even bother to hide it; just a little while ago a tech support rep told me right to my face (so to speak.) Encryption seems to help but I would love to have a way to defeat it altogether.
It's not a question of price vs. performance. It's a question of getting what you are paying for. Furthermore, I see no use in wasting money purchasing higher speed service from them than the 5Mbps I have now. As someone said in an earlier thread, who needs 15Mbps to listen to streaming audio? |
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