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Hey Scott,
I'll check out my Rogers connection at work today and let you know how fast it is.
My Sympatico at home is still blazing fast!
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Hi srb,
yes Shaw has been capping my torrents to 10-20 up speed. Takes about 4 days to seed a DVD. I guess they do not like the competition with people downloading movies and TV shows. I know the Bit Torrent people are developing an encrypted packet version so it will be harder to detect and cap.
I can VPN from my Shaw into a Telus DSL and then upload between 50-60 which I am doing right now with the Spokane DVD, which proves they are capping torrent traffic. I only do this when I am seeding a new DVD, otherwise I just stay with the slow up speed and I tend to keep a good share ratio, just takes a little longer.
btw, I did get a phone call from them a few months ago, I was at 120GB for the month, they consider reasonable usage at 50GB. This was all from hip DVD's and the occasional TV show I missed.
Cheers...
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I work out of a home office near Eglinton & Islington in Toronto and we use Rogers as our provider. I just hopped on the Spokane torrent and it screamed along at close to 200kb/s... clearly not capped. My upload reached into the mid 30s.
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Hey Scott... We are on a personal account, not a business account, but perhaps it is a localized test/problem.
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I have noticed that I have been a great seed this past week or two in light of some of the problems people are describing. I have noticed it happening to you guys.
I am on Shaw in the Okanagan and seem to still have good bandwidth on BT (my upload seems maxed at least.) They did get upset at me a few months ago when I had wayyyy more than my allotted 30Gb (most of it was on the first incarnation of thehip torrent tracker and I lost all that amazing credit, more than I have uploaded since!! DOH!)
The first guy I talked to on the phone at Shaw was great (I called them) and he told me to just try not to be in the top 10 or whatever and I would basically blend in. I have been using, say, 2 times my 'allowable' since that warning (vs. 5-6 times or more) with no more hassles.
A local Shaw guy called me the following monday(?) (not knowing I had called earlier) and he was a bit more aggressive, pointing out that he knew i was BTing and to tame it down. I pointed out that file sizes are only getting larger and larger and larger, and that perhaps they may need to stay with the times. He said eventually their new thing will come to our area and i would be allowed 50Gb, which is less than what I am using now, so that really wont change much i doubt.
I am worried that my usage in March was a bit high but I have tried repeatedly to access my modem usage stats to check, but that page crashes all my browsers now, so I am not sure how bad March was.
Telus happened to cold call me around the time of the incident and their chick told me there was no restriction on bandwidth because of dedicated connection, etc. so if I have to, I could easily switch over to them.
But I have been very happy with my Shaw internet and cable service and I have no desire to switch at all, so I am their customer to lose.
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many of us have noticed your valued contributions as well.
Thank you.
it gives me great joy to finally be able to give back a bit after having either received b+P or downloaded from other sources to date mainly.
