ultrasroma
join:2008-07-16
Waterloo, ON
| Rapidshare throttled!!
Everyone by now should know that Bell is throttling badly any P2P.
However I discovered today that Bell is also capping Rapidshare!!!  I have a premium account and I'm being capped since 6PM to a meager 10k/s!!!!
I'm so glad I'm switching to another provider. I'm considering cancelling my phone line either. No more Bell for me. A pity as for the first three years I had no complain against them. Now everything seems falling apart. |
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ah ok
@videotron.ca
| said by ultrasroma  : No more Bell for me. Ah so your changing to cable so that Bell doesn't steal your money via a 3rd party dsl provider.
Good choice. |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0 | A 3rd party DSL isn't likely to be any benefit anyway ... |
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Deadpool
Go Sens Go
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-29
Canada
 ·Bell Sympatico
| reply to ultrasroma
I'm going to ask you how you came to the conclusion that Rapidshare is being throttled?
I mean, if it were, you'd be capped at 30 KBps from 4:30 pm to 2 am, not 6 pm.
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Disclaimer: If I express an opinion, it is my own opinion, not that of Bell or its related companies. |
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ultrasroma
join:2008-07-16
Waterloo, ON
| What happens actually is that the download speed abruptly decrease even to the point of sometimes stopping. However around 6 PM I experienced a significant decrease (170k to 6k, unexplainable indeed.
Now, speed is okay even though it is far from perfect. The main problem about the throttling is that there is not a clear pattern. Sometimes even at night I could be fully throttled for half an hour then it resumes to normal speed for 10 minutes then throttling for another 15 and so forth.
This unpredictable pattern is extremely annoying. Bell told us that throttling was needed in peak hours. However Bell continue to throttle 24/7 even though the throttling is less severe at night than during the evening, nonetheless it exists. The "peak hours" excuse is indeed poor or at least does not tell the whole truth. |
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bill boz
join:2005-08-01
Scarborough, ON | reply to ultrasroma
It must be something on your end as I have rapidshare premium and have always downloaded and uploaded at full line speed |
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MrMichael
@ucc-net.ca
| reply to ultrasroma
Since Rapidshare changed their gui, it went hand-in-hand with their free user download throttling.
Prior to this change (I guestimate 3 months ago), downloads were at your full throughput capacity. Now, however, all free access downloads are throttled to ~50kb/s. They probably use Ellacoya to do this.
Hopefully rapidshare will die out for another unthrottled service. |
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batkinson001
join:2006-08-07
Oshawa, ON
| reply to ultrasroma
I have also noticed this, i use the free download option on RS, eventhough its slow, its still usable until today where I was getting less than 10k/sec...my download never finished as it dropped off and died... Dunno why Bell would cap RS, they have 100MB size limits per file anyways. |
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qweloo
join:2007-10-04
h3p 2c4
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to ultrasroma
Yes confirmed. It started today. Rapidshare usually at 60k/s at peak times now at 10k/s around 8pm.
magically after 2Am, it is back to 60k/s.
So bell starting to expand the throttle to other protocol than p2p now. Slippery slope anyone ?
I guess that is their definition of a bettER customer experience.
How about ER for Bell-hatER ? because that is what a lot of people are becoming fast.
Dont worry my bell-hatER friends: this company will self-destruct itself until it sees reason or files for bankruptcy.
The MBA geniuses and marketing gurus left who have never touched a server in their life or downloaded anything bigger than 100Mb will finish the job started by the other idiots who got unloaded ... I guess that is cause for celebration. |
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Reimer
join:2006-08-14
Toronto, ON
| reply to ultrasroma
If you guys hadn't noticed, Rapidshare changed their policies with regards to their free access.
In return for getting rid of captchas, they limited free downloads to 50-60KB/s. So no, it's not a result of throttling.
If you're a premium user and it's still slow, it's more likely Rapidshare is having problems on their own end. That's why they've also limited premium users to 5GB of bandwidth a day recently to combat a huge influx in new users. |
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Bellundo
@teksavvy.com | Keep reading and take a look at qweloo's reply. |
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zmanx
join:2008-11-05
Richmond Hill, ON
| reply to ultrasroma
yup , just got teksavvy and guess what , i noticed something is wrong with downloads from rapidshare 10k speeds , i was like what the ... i just had rogers and it was doing 300k/sec
so i connected the rogers and it still does 300k/sec on the same file
lol
so i called teksavvy and so far .. they seem to try to ignore the issue.. saying my line is set low .. they need to pick it up.
anyway , i was looking and found this forum .. too bad i really liked teksavvy .. but i guess i have to stick with the India support from rogers
dam the CRTC sucks we got no competition in this place
grrr |
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HiVolt
Premium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
clubs:
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| So get a $60 linksys wrt54gl, enable mlppp and see if its still 10k/sec.
Or if you're using windows, simply create a pppoe connection, enable mlppp checkbox and off you go.
dont concede this quickly.
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GO LEAFS GO! |
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Guru
join:2005-12-01
Canada | I thought you guys said http wasn't throttled!? This is a download using port80 http!
Here »[Throttle] Does Bell throttle HTTP traffic as well? |
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R0CKY
TSI Rocky
Premium,VIP
join:2005-05-19
Chatham, ON |  |
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Deadpool
Go Sens Go
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-29
Canada
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to Guru
It's not. If Rapidshare was throttled, it would fall under the same rules of throttling: 30 KBps, not 10 KBps.
Since the issue is on the DSL side and not Rogers, what's the line sync profile, speed test results, modem stats, etc...
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Disclaimer: If I express an opinion, it is my own opinion, not that of Bell or its related companies. |
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DjEclipse
join:2007-11-20
Niagara Falls, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to HiVolt
said by HiVolt :So get a $60 linksys wrt54gl, enable mlppp and see if its still 10k/sec. Or if you're using windows, simply create a pppoe connection, enable mlppp checkbox and off you go. dont concede this quickly. +1 |
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Confused
| reply to HiVolt
said by HiVolt :So get a $60 linksys wrt54gl, enable mlppp and see if its still 10k/sec. Or if you're using windows, simply create a pppoe connection, enable mlppp checkbox and off you go. dont concede this quickly. Is this answer applicable across the board (all ISPs), or ISPs that have mlppp support? |
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drjp81
join:2006-01-09
canada | Only providers that support MLPPP. Which Bell isn't one of, of course...
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Cheers! |
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JimmyArms
join:2008-01-09
Sault Ste Marie, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
1 edit | reply to ultrasroma
I've been having all sorts of problems with rapidshare for months now and as far as I can tell, it's rapidshare that is the problem.
Trying to upload or download anything at anytime is a crap shoot and a big pain in the ass now.
No problems with other hosts. Mediafire, Netload, Megaupload all work fine. Good uploads speeds and double or triple the download speeds.
Downloading right now from a place called 2Shared at over 500kB/sec on my 5MB line. Suck it rapidshare.
I switched to megaupload. |
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