rikkards
join:2005-12-22
Ottawa, ON
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Re: [Extreme] alternative ports for 1720 (tested)
Is changing the port to 1720 a good fix for Bittorrent capping? Here is my story:
I was having problems with it (I am on the rchrd (Richmond Road in Ottawa) phub) and I was seeing downloads drop to 0-1k and maybe climb to 17k for a couple seconds, rinse and repeat.
So, I called Rogers this morning and the person in technical support said that yes they are capping bittorrent due to it swamping their network. I can understand why they are doing it but I think as my area does not have an alternative (too far from the switch for Bell, Magma, Telus) the only option is Rogers. Thus the subnet I am on is probably saturated in general.
So since the main reason I use is for downloading TV shows (not movies or much software) I called back and decided to drop to 128K lite version.
The best part was that I asked the person when I dropped my package and she said "Oh it is illegal for us to provide that high of speed for residential" Don't know what crack she was on.
Anyways the point I was trying to make is does changing the port to 1720 really work? I was under the impression that they are filtering by the header not by the port. I was setting my port to 58880 but that also didn't increase the speed.
I followed up with an email to their support saying I have
dropped my package to lite and will be interested in upgrading again when either they relax the cap or when Sympatico is available in my area.
Always an option... |
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cal808
@cable.rogers | Well I've just been pcubed by 3web aka Rogers. I know of the port 1720 trick but I'm using both emule + BT. Anyone know of any other ports that work as I want to run both at the same time. |
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khany2002
@cable.rogers
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Hey, rikkards,
I also live in Ottawa, and am on the rchrd phub. We got a letter for excessive usage before the cap was instituted, but those were all seemingly hollow threats.
At first, for us, around November I'd say, Azureus started going REALLY slow, like 0-1k/s.
Port 1720 fixed this, but, since Jan. 1st, all my torrents are stuck on 0.
We called Rogers, and, at first, they denied anything about bittorrent throttling. Finally, we went to the cancellation department, and they transferred us to some really high up person in tech support (yeah right), and he acknowledged the throttling, and said there was nothing he could do.
We decided to cancel, even though we've been with Rogers forever, there was nothing we could do.
We now are looking for a new ISP to go with. You say that none of the DSL services would be good here? |
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mbrown0420
join:2006-01-03
Ottawa, ON
1 edit | Utorrent port 1755 i'm rockin at 400k/sec download blow me ted.
Ottawa Ontario, Uplands Drive I have NO DSL offered in this area... what a crock..... |
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