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Re: [ Express] Recent Massive Torrent throttling in Ottawa?
Before Sept/2010 | 
After Sept/2010 |
When I left DSL it was time of day based.
Then I had 2 years of pure Joy on Cable, now it is worse than DSL was when I left.
Alternately, suggestions for a reliable seedbox. How do people pay for these. I don't think I would trust my CC.
I will try to attach before/after to show how bad it is, how good it was. |
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| I gotta say, it's not BS, and it's not just a few people. I'm also in Ottawa and I've found in the last 3 or so weeks my Torrent performance has gone from being amazing to being virtually worthless.
I use to fire up several torrents, and the next day most would be done.... today, things I started a week ago are still going. My extremely over priced rogers connection has virtually become as good as dialup now.
Rogers isn't simply turning down the performance a bit, they're turned it down so much, if you torrent at all, you might as well get another ISP since torrenting is just short of useless. |
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| maybe it's specific areas? i'm east end and downloaded a few LEGAL movies this weekend, all were done within 2-4hrs |
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| I don't know about locality issues. I am west-Nepean.
I am a heavy torrent downloader and until last week or so, I never saw any sign of throttling, but I always had set my global upload to about 40K so I wouldn't choke my connection.
I would almost daily see Torrents that would max my 1.2MB/s download.
I could also run a few simultaneous torrents.
Then Bang. Something changed drastically. Now I am lucky to see 100KB/s and if if I add more I will be lucky if it doesn't drop even lower for all the torrents combined.
I do see older torrent with few peers/seeds actually do pretty decent. But heavily seeded/peered torrents seem to get choked off.
So your LEGAL movies may have fewer more generous seeders and be OK.
I am DL a movie right now and it is running ~40KB/s and has about 10 hours to go... |
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