I started downloading FreeBSD last night and it started off _really_ slow (25KB/s), but by this morning it was done (and I had uploaded nearly 17GB). This was not on Shaw, but just pointing out that the torrents for FreeBSD may not have been seeded well yet.
I haven't really downloaded much via Bittorrent on Shaw, but a friend does and he hasn't noticed any changes, mind you he has the Extreme service.
shawn
On 7-Nov-04, at 10:18 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
About a week ago I downloaded Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire using BitTorrent, and I got a personal record download speed: around 490 KB/s near the end of the download. Mind you, there were around 3000 seeds. Last night I started downloading FreeBSD 5.3 and was getting around 50 KB/s, but I don't know how many seeds there were (presumably far fewer).
Does anyone else have anecdotal evidence for us?
Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
It appears that Shaw may be starting to throttle Bittorrent traffic on their network.... http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419 shawn _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable