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BitTorrent blocking goes north: Canadian ISP (Bell) admits to throttling P2P (pg. 3)
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| basilisk |
| Does anyone have any alternate suggestions for seeding (legal) torrents? I'm always doing a lot of traffic with BitTorrent but I don't really like the idea of being penalized for widespread illegal usage of the technology. |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
for dsl go with teksavvy
www.teksavvy.com
u wont find better tech support anywhere. and for 30$ unlimited is a good deal. the only catch is that u better hope u have a good connection and aren't far from a CO.
i suggest u give them a call and see how far u are from a CO by giving them ur address. they'll be able to find out if you might have a good or bad connection. |
heard lots of good things about these guys.. anyone know if they throttle?
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
heard lots of good things about these guys.. anyone know if they throttle?
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no. but again, their service can only be as good as the quality of your line. so if you're far away from the CO, there's really not much they can do. although i have read before that if there is a stinger or a remote close by, they might be able to move u there, if bell actually does it. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Anyway, you really can get those speeds from Rogers, just not on Torrents. But torrents are always slow because half of your bandwidth is getting munched by the protocol itself. |
its all about usenet. |
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| lopi |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Rogers is not worse than Bell. Nobody is worse than Bell. Ted Rogers could walk right up to my front door, ring the doorbell, and piss on my shoe, and Bell would still be worse. |
+1
Bell.
Emily is a whore. |
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| monishb |
| i can download at 800-900 kb i have rogers at my apt. works great! |
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| exstasie |
| woohoo...i woke up this morning at 6am and i was downloading at 250kbps last night :D |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| My e-penis is 10". :cool: |
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| Sly_Guy |
| I you that years ago. I used to love how my 'highspeed internet connection' gave me 0.5 kb/s on torrents. 100 seeds, 20 peers and blazing speeds of 0.5 kb! |
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| jsibilin |
| http://www.dslreports.com/forum/ is a good resource in finding out which isp is best for u. As far as bandwith throttling...news to me, i've been with cogeco and they recently suspended my account,, when i called i thought for sure they were going to warn me about my bandwith usage but it turned out to be spam warning. I don't have any spam on my computer and I regularly re-install my os every 4-5 months. I don't understand why they did this to me. Suposidly you get 3 warning for going over your bandwith limit , then ur banned indefinately. I would say it might be a good thing to go back and fourth between dsl & cable to confuse the isp's and make urself un-noticeable. Has anyone used bitTorrent seeding from their isp'svpn??, i heard that u can do that and it increases ur up speed. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
its all about usenet. |
in sympatico's retention rates sucked! Now they don't even have ANY support for usenet. It's a dying beast in Canada. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
i believe it is the fastest internet connection available in ON or canada for residential area, it is not an extreme, just normal connection they provide, more info on http://www.aci.on.ca
rogers i think is about 5mbps
aurora cable only works in aurora/king city area, it's basically a little square of land that they provide connection to
here is the coverage area
http://www.aci.on.ca/images/aci_service.area_map.jpg |
Yup... I use ACI and live in Aurora, and at 9MBps. Sometimes it's screamin fast, others meh.
My torrents go in the mid-high hundreds SOMETIMES, and only if I disconnect my router and turn off firewalls (spent too much time trying to tweak it so I said f-it). It's great to see xbox games flow in in a few hours, but not consistant.
I pay the price though... $60 with tax and rental (bc I don't have cable TV to get another 10 buck discount) |
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