cogeco is trottling! in Cogeco http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20922256 en Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:36:16 EDT Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:36:16 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043194 Fireblade : I split giganews with a friend, each pay about $14/m for 240 days and unlimited transfer - the only cap sadly is Cogeco's pathetically low limit.

I use Torrents from time to time and I feel that they do throttle at certain times of the day. When I download something around 11:00AM - 2:00PM, I get roughly 10-55 KB/Sec with over 300 seeds and low leechers. Same torrent, but a little after 6-9PM I get 900-1.7 MB/Sec - exact same torrent. My area doesn't have too many subscribers so the time of day shouldn't make that kind of dramatic difference.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043194 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:51:38 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20964113 boredguy : It's also free. While Cogeco's usenet server is alright it still has the occasional problem and with only 5 days retention it's easy to miss stuff. So if you want the best usenet experience you'll have to go with a pay server.
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said by Ravage_D See Profile :

Okay..I'm still having real problems understanding this..

Torrents are throttled by most ISPs in Canada. Why do people even bother?
It's not that hard to understand. There's plenty of things you can get on torrents that you'll never see on usenet. Especially genre specific things, like obscure music and/or movies. Most of the music I'm into, you won't ever find on usenet and is only available on Soulseek or private torrent sites.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20963792 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:53:16 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20963762 Ravage_D : Okay..I'm still having real problems understanding this..

Torrents are throttled by most ISPs in Canada. Why do people even bother?

Usenet is far faster and far more reliable. Plus it's only downstream.

I'm never going to touch another torrent again. Yech.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20963762 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:44:37 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20958140 l0st : i never tried removing the router because utorrent worked fine with it for a lot of months straight until 2 weeks ago when this appeared out of the blue...

but i'll give it a shot sometime when i'm not too lazy]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20958140 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:28:41 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20958123 Airwolf : Issue still occur without the router?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20958123 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:25:33 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20958006 l0st : ok guys on vista 64bit for the first time and all is well, won't say further to jinx it.

and i'm not a noob, my router is a dgl-4300 d-link gaming router

you still don't seem to understand my problem, i can download fine

the issue here is that when i had an active torrent everything else would die that required b/w even if that torrent was using 5kb/s..

and the second i paused that torrent everything went back to normal.

how can you explain that? what router settings to tweak?

aren't these symptoms throttling 101 ?

ok?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20958006 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:57:19 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20957124 Verno :
said by urbanriot See Profile :

said by Verno See Profile :

I'd like to see you produce a torrent client with the same featureset in only 283KB.
I don't see how a heavily UPX'd .exe produces better quality network code or increases the quality of a program.

Good advice on the virus scanning scanning though, I'd never considered the effect of virus scanners on torrent pieces. I personally don't have any issues with SEP or SAV.
The compression aside, it's a remarkably lean program that implements the BitTorrent protocol with no additional nonsense. They also managed to pack in a load of other cool features and still keep it quite efficient in resource usage. It's a great torrent client but like most others, there is no "out of the box" configuration that will work for everyone due to the varying hardware/network configurations out there.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20957124 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:36:01 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20956657 urbanriot :
said by Verno See Profile :

I'd like to see you produce a torrent client with the same featureset in only 283KB.
I don't see how a heavily UPX'd .exe produces better quality network code or increases the quality of a program.

Good advice on the virus scanning scanning though, I'd never considered the effect of virus scanners on torrent pieces. I personally don't have any issues with SEP or SAV. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20956657 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:53:02 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20956526 Verno : Due to tons of problems with torrenting the patches for World of Warcraft I have now become an expert :) Here's some help:

First off, there are several factors that will influence the speed of your connection.

If you are saturating your upstream(upload) then your download speeds will suffer as a result as well. You ideally want to limit your upload speed in uTorrent to about 20-25% less of what your maximum upload speed is.

If you are using a router, you could be filling up the nat table due to the fact that BitTorrent makes tons of connections. You can tweak the maximum connections in the uTorrent settings to help ease this problem.

Your BitTorrent download speed is also dependant on what your connected peers can upload to you. If you are connected to three DSL users who have set their limits to 5KB/s, then obviously you can't max your download out.

Cheap routers and modems can have multiple problems with BitTorrent, the recommended routers around the dslreports forum are the Linksys WRT54GL and the Asus WL500 series. These routers will also let you use custom firmware but that's a whole other subject.

Several anti-virus products set themselves to scan incoming traffic and some of these will target BitTorrent. This introduces a lot of latency into the equation and will lower your speeds. eSet Nod32 is a good example of this, people reported multiple problems until they set the program to exclude uTorrent.exe from it's traffic scanning and then their speeds multiplied several times.

Finally, for the person who said uTorrent is "useless software", I'd like to see you produce a torrent client with the same featureset in only 283KB. It's a wonderful program but like many other torrent clients there is no one "configuration" that will work for everyone. Due to the hundreds of routers/modems/system configs out there, you might have to tweak it for your use.

CBC.ca offers some torrents of their shows for download if you're looking to test speeds. Linux ISO files are usually hosted on universities or corporate bandwidth so they're also a good bet for testing speeds.

Good luck.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20956526 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:31:15 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20949760 Airwolf : Do you have a router?
Are you saturating the download/upload stream?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20949760 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:04:26 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20947793 l0st : i talked too fast.

it's back again and MUCH WORSE

browsing must be at 14.4k speeds and even msn messenger can't stay connected with 1 active torrent on utorrent

TOTAL B.S.

the second i pause it everything is back to normal...OMG]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20947793 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:49:54 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20944660 urbanriot : LOL! ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20944660 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:55:27 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20944622 l0st : wow i just tried utorrent again this morning and it's back to normal!

i ran that throttling detection scan and it also confirmed it

thank you Cogeco for listening? O_O]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20944622 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:49:30 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20943828 MrShag :
said by Carlos_Creole :

lol, of course they throttle torrents. Use one of the new detection programs to see for yourself.

CRTC action is required.
Then a class-action lawsuit.I feel that i should get what I pay for.
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" Hi Im such and such, and I use Mountain Cable Vision because they offered me a deal fir the promo, not to mention I have no choice."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20943828 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:41:08 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20941150 MrShag : I am using Utorrent ok with x64xp pro. It could very well be a Vista thing. If you can dual-boot with this version of 64bXP Pro, you might be able to know for sure. There have been many mighty systems that have been brought to its knees simply due to that.
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" Hi Im such and such, and I use Mountain Cable Vision because they offered me a deal fir the promo, not to mention I have no choice."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20941150 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:57:11 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20941077 MrShag : You might be right! According to the 'Glastnost test' at this website. :»broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/

As well this is the speed that the website suggests that I have:
* Downstream Bandwidth: 10Mbps
* Upstream Bandwidth: 136 Kbps * Upstream Queue: 428 ms

Is BitTorrent traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6881) throttled?

* The BitTorrent upload (seeding) worked. Our tool was successful in uploading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests a TCP upload achieved minimal 73 Kbps while a BitTorrent upload achieved maximal 75 Kbps. You can find details here.

* The BitTorrent download worked. Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests a TCP download achieved minimal 1789 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved maximal 2311 Kbps. You can find details here.


Is BitTorrent traffic on a non-standard BitTorrent port (10009) throttled?

* The BitTorrent upload (seeding) worked. Our tool was successful in uploading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* Your ISP possibly rate limits your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests a TCP uploads achieved minimal 564 Kbps while a BitTorrent upload achieved maximal 76 Kbps. You can find details here.

* The BitTorrent download worked. Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests a TCP download achieved minimal 1998 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved maximal 2429 Kbps. You can find details here.


Is TCP traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6881) throttled?

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits all downloads at port 6881. In our test, a TCP download on a BitTorrent port achieved at least 1789 Kbps while a TCP download on a non-BitTorrent port achieved at least 1998 Kbps. You can find details here.

* Your ISP possibly rate limits all uploads at port 6881. In our test, a TCP upload on a BitTorrent port achieved at least 73 Kbps while a TCP upload on a non-BitTorrent port achieved at least 564 Kbps. You can find details here.


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" Hi Im such and such, and I use Mountain Cable Vision because they offered me a deal fir the promo, not to mention I have no choice."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20941077 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:38:01 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933837 l0st : i'm going to try vista64 soon and cross my fingers...

i used utorrent fine for months and this just came up 2 weeks ago]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933837 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:09:27 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933762 urbanriot : Hehe I can't remember my P4 days, so it's possible I couldn't have done this then. But the trick is to find the sweet spot between seeds / peers so you're not connecting to too many useless peers, but connecting to enough to receive / send important data. That's why I love Azureus so much, because it's so highly configurable.

Could've been your router too... my old Linksys WRT54G 2.1, despite my love for it, even with various custom firmwares just wasn't able to keep up with my activities with its tiny little 200mhz CPU and 16MB RAM. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933762 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:52:59 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933411 beatsnpieces :
said by urbanriot See Profile :

said by beatsnpieces See Profile :

Also, running torrents while gaming is pretty much begging for lag.
With Azureus / Vuze I have about 200 seeded torrents and I'm typically downloading between 700 kB/s - 1.2 MB/s, while connected to tons of peers, and I have no problems getting 22 - 30 ping in games like TF2, CS:S, etc.
Wow. I'm not sure what you are doing differently but torrents always kill pings for me. At least they used to anyhow, I gave up on trying to do both at once over a year ago on my old P4. Maybe I'll try it with my new system.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933411 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:44:49 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933164 urbanriot :
said by beatsnpieces See Profile :

Also, running torrents while gaming is pretty much begging for lag.
With Azureus / Vuze I have about 200 seeded torrents and I'm typically downloading between 700 kB/s - 1.2 MB/s, while connected to tons of peers, and I have no problems getting 22 - 30 ping in games like TF2, CS:S, etc. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20933164 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:01:17 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20932826 beatsnpieces : I have the exact same problem with uTorrent. Even when it is going slow my browsing is very slow as well in IE and Firefox. Azureus does not cause the same problem. It's a uTorrent issue and has nothing to do with Cogeco. Also, running torrents while gaming is pretty much begging for lag.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20932826 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:03:15 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20932142 N0_Nam3 : I've also noticed this, been working perfectly for a while and about 4 weeks ago my speeds went to crap can barely go over 200kb and upload is a joke. also my browsing speeds feel like dial up,but when i close utorrent it works fine.its pretty sad all m rating's have suffered. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20932142 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:41:25 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20930511 urbanriot : Disable the Vuze GUI, and use the classic Azureus view. Unfortunately, I've long ago disabled Vuze so I'm not entirely sure what steps you take to do that. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20930511 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:19:34 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20929706 l0st : this sucks, new version causes the same issues for me

and Vuze is so much slower, bloated, avg down speeds slower]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20929706 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:05:52 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20928459 l0st : strange 1.8 final just came out

you have to scroll for 5 pages to view the changelog!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20928459 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:48:45 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925261 l0st : well you're absolutely right at the moment, but like i kept mentioning it was fine for months until last week.

the symptoms just caught up with my region then

as long as it'll never be a generalized bitorrent issue i'll be a "happy camper"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925261 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:32:44 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925199 urbanriot : No, uTorrent is just a poorly programmed piece of software (as far as I'm concerned). I do seriously heavy torrenting and I've never had luck with it... it seems to completely saturate my network activity, without giving me any extra speeds. Gaming pings are sky high when using uTorrent, normal when using Azureus. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925199 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:15:43 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925138 l0st : 1 hour from MTL, ontario/quebec border

which tools should i run that i haven't yet?

and well looks like utorrent got blacklisted by cogeco for me,

using another client now for ~1hour and so far doesn't slow down my browsing while active

but as soon as i fire up utorrent and do the same transfer my browsing crawls...and it was always the same version too, nothinG CHANGED!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925138 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:01:17 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925114 urbanriot : Where are you geographically?

Have you run any of the other tools to determine if you have any other problems?

I'm downloading a 12GB torrent right now at a sustained rate of about 1 MB/s... it'll occasionally drop as low as 700 kB/s and rise to about 1.09 MB/s, which is pretty decent on my Soho Standard account (cap of 16 Mbps).

No signs of 'trottling' here...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20925114 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:55:19 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924721 l0st : ok using another torrent client for a couple of minutes now with active transfers. so far it doesn't seem to slow down browsing and getting over 200kb/s

(my intraweb connection dropped for a minute just after installed the new client...was odd...)

i think there's definitely something new going on in my region with cogeco's network..for the worse...

60GB cap and they're still not satisfied?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924721 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:21:24 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924550 l0st : i tried browsing with IE and firefox with only 5kb/s download on utorrent and its dial up browsing in both cases, e.g. basic youtube videos buffer/skip, it's ridiculous

as soon as there's an active torrent regardless of bandwidth everything goes down the toilet

TWEAK THE GOD DAMN THROTTLING HARDWARE AT LEAST, shesh.

for the throttling detection program, anything reliable?
i know google is supposed to be developing one]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924550 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:40:39 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924050 anon : lol, of course they throttle torrents. Use one of the new detection programs to see for yourself.

CRTC action is required.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924050 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:31:59 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20923423 Evileye : Try a different bittorrent client/web browser combination and see if the problem persists. Maybe one of the programs you are currently using had an update that made it go wonky. I've seen some IE add-ons that totally bork stuff up too.

Cheers.
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lol only 1 tracking cookie.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922748 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:06:26 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922726 Airwolf : Have you done a virus and spyware scan?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922726 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:01:28 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922693 l0st :

just ran it with NOTHING running (says anon i just ran it with IE without being logged in...)

but sigh how the hell do i prove that when i launch utorrent with ANY active torrent my browsing slows down, gaming lags, as soon as i close utorrent or pause the download my browsing speeds up instantly...its been like this for a minimum of 5 straight days. and in the last 2 years that never happened before]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922693 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:50:34 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922594 Adam20 : Cogeco isnt throttling, I have been able to get 1.5MB/'s with my connection on pro, and if thats throttling then bell has something to learn lol]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922594 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:27:35 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922568 Airwolf : Your upload speed is low.

What's the speedtest look like while other problems are not using the connection?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922568 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:23:37 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922558 l0st : without utorrent (clicked "post now" on first trace post and it took 30sec, surprised it didn't time out)

Tracing route to dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.73.192.1
3 31 ms 36 ms 16 ms d226-12-217.home.cgocable.net [24.226.12.217]
4 17 ms 19 ms 18 ms gw-nac.torontointernetxchange.net [198.32.245.38
]
5 39 ms 38 ms 37 ms 0-e2-12.tbr1.tl9.nac.net [209.123.10.53]
6 41 ms 40 ms 38 ms 0.e1-4.tbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.10.101]
7 38 ms 37 ms 37 ms 0.e-1-1.tbr1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.17]
8 38 ms 40 ms 39 ms vlan804.esd1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.2]
9 39 ms 38 ms 39 ms www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]

Trace complete.

well these damn results are fine right? so this is not proving anything, but why the hell would i waste my time and bother making this up, i had no beef with cogeco whats so ever since i'm with them for like close to 2 years now?

how else am i supposed to explain this? not throttling then what?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922558 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:21:05 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922542 l0st : well eh with cmd and utorrent running:

Tracing route to dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.73.192.1
3 21 ms 22 ms 15 ms d226-12-217.home.cgocable.net [24.226.12.217]
4 16 ms 19 ms 28 ms gw-nac.torontointernetxchange.net [198.32.245.38
]
5 41 ms 39 ms 37 ms 0-e2-12.tbr1.tl9.nac.net [209.123.10.53]
6 43 ms 37 ms 62 ms 0.e1-4.tbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.10.101]
7 52 ms 49 ms 50 ms 0.e-1-1.tbr1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.17]
8 37 ms 41 ms 40 ms vlan804.esd1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.2]
9 38 ms 49 ms 38 ms www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]

Trace complete.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922542 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:17:07 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922526 l0st :

this is with utorrent running with 70kb/s down and 5kb/s up average (took 1 minute on "waiting for receipt"

don't know if there's any point in doing it but what the hell]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922526 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:13:49 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922499 l0st :

what should i use to do the traceroute?

and what didn't i make clear? my speeds are fine, everything is fine. AS SOON AS I FIRE UP UTORRENT that's when the party begins! and it's not slowing everything down because i'm maxing, even when i get 50kb my browsing feels like dial up.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922499 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:07:24 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922477 Airwolf : For using torrents, no that isn't bad at all, but he's saying that now it's top out at 200KB/s

If you're only maxing out at lets say 2000Kbps because of a connection issue while gaming and using utorrent, yea I can see it only being 200KB/s.

I would check to see if the connection is solid first.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922477 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:02:29 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922439 exseven : yea me too, im just saying 900k isnt bad and there is other factors involved...

anyway cogeco doesnt throttle your connection when you load up µTorrent (or any other bittorrent client).

like airwolf said, try the speedtest

check for packetloss, read the FAQ, try to download a file from the linux mirror (»less.cogeco.net/ftp/memdrive/ubu···i386.iso is the fastest file)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922439 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:53:42 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922395 Airwolf :
said by exseven See Profile :

umm a 900KB/s cap is getting pretty close to the 10mbit mark. escpecially when using bittorrent with all the overhead that isnt included in the 900K
900KB/s = 7200kbps
1.25MB/s = 10000kbps

I've hit at least 1.10 MB/s outside Cogeco's network. Standard, not Pro.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922395 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:45:18 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922381 exseven : riiiiight a 900KB/s cap is getting pretty close to the 10mbit mark. escpecially when using bittorrent with all the overhead that isnt included in the 900K]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922381 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:42:48 EDT Re: cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922329 Airwolf : You could just be having connection issues.

Can you post a trace route from dslreports.com and a speedtest from »speedtest.cogeco.net?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922329 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:33:14 EDT cogeco is trottling! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922256 l0st : ok i'm 100% sure of this, i've monitored and waited a whole week to see if this was temporary or i was seeing things

every single freakin time i load up utorrent my browsing slows down to basically dial up speeds, its unbearable.

no matter the source i average 100-200kb at most. (and no not over 5kb/s in upload so that's not why)

as soon as i close up utorrent my browsing speed goes back to normal. i mean this couldn't be more obvious. my gaming is effected too. When i play race driver GRID online it lags from time to time which is a nono for racing. And here again! as soon as i close torrents no more lag!

i've changed absolutely nothing since i've noticed this happening. and just 2 weeks ago i could cap utorrent at 900kb and still browse and play online at lighting speeds!

let me know what info you need, i'll provide everything

well i'm pretty fed up with cogeco, price increase, pathetic caps and now this? i don't know how long i'll hang in if this throttling doesn't go away anytime soon!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20922256 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:17:40 EDT