Chernobog
join:2005-12-30
Canada
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| [ Extreme] Is Rogers Steam (valve) throttling?
So I have been trying to figure out what my problem has been with Steam in the past 2 days - it would just say updating and would go on for 5 minutes and then it would crash - and today i tried to log into my premium secureix account and voila! all the speed problems were gone?!?!?!
Does this mean rogers is going to throttle everything on the internet and still sell us a 8 Mbit sticker to put on our desktop wallpaper while getting max 20 KB/s bandwidth on anything we do? |
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LaZ3R
Premium
join:2003-01-17
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| Uhh... No. :/ Rogers has no care to throttle a service like Steam because users do little to no uploading over it unless they are IN a game (where even there very little uploading happens).
What probably happened was a temp glitch up of Steam because they have moments where weird things happen, non-ISP related. I'm on Rogers express and get a good 400-500 KB/S most of the time.
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Kyleb88
@rogers.com | reply to Chernobog
No problems with steam for me in the past week before/after the update. |
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AileStrike
@rogers.com
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Only problem i have with steam is a random disconnect from the internet when I'm playing games on steam, some days it'll work fine, other times I'll have my connection drop every 15-20 minutes just like if i was on bit-torrent.
Steam and Bit-torrent are the only programs that cause my connection to randomly drop. |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0 | Random drops like that are often related to overflowing the modem's upstream buffers. |
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AileStrike
@rogers.com | reply to Chernobog
Makes sense, thanks sbrook. |
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