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Re: [Extreme Plus] Utorrent Settings and Rogers While it may have been Rogers policy to set "the maximum upload speed for P2P file sharing traffic is 80 kbps at all times", the fact of the matter is that until recently they weren't actually doing that. Only certain P2P flows were being rate limited; lots of P2P flows weren't. It appears that Rogers has recently made changes to "fix" this.
There are two problems with this:
1) The way Roger did this is clearly broken as not only upstream P2P traffic is getting rate limited. Right now it appears that if Rogers 'network management' system decides you're running P2P software all (or almost all) upsteam encrypted flows other than HTTPS are being collectively rate limited to 80 kbps. So games, SCP traffic on non-standard ports, etc. are all going to be negatively impacted.
2) If all you have is 80 Kbps of upload bandwidth for P2P traffic your download speeds are going to slow regardless of how much download bandwidth you have available. 80 kbps, is 10 KB/s. Depending on how many swarms you're connected to, and the number of peers you're trying to share with, you're likely overloading that 80 Kbps 'pipe' (more then one reasonably busy torrent would be enough to do it). As soon as that 80 Kbps pipe is flooded, there's no bandwidth available for the P2P network overhead (ex: the messages that tell the peers you're downloading from to send you the next chunk). By heavily throttling P2P uploads, they have effectively throttled all P2P downloads. | |
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Ottawa, ON | I'm likely going to switch to DSL, i can apparently get Fibe 16Mbit and our office has 6Mbit DSL and I'm able to saturate it with torrents and not actually kill the rest of my network, it's too bad really, the 25Mbit cable was nice. | |
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