It appears that Shaw may be starting to throttle Bittorrent traffic on their network....
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419
shawn
A lot of angry users, judging by the comments. Sad that only a few of them have any understanding of networking and are completely overreacting. Shaping != blocking. TANSTAAFL.
Sean
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
It appears that Shaw may be starting to throttle Bittorrent traffic on their network....
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419
shawn
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I hadn't even read the comments. I just went back and read them and they made me laugh. I guess some people just don't understand that bandwidth isn't free. If every user used 30GB/month of traffic, Shaw or Telus or whoever would be out of business or the prices would skyrocket.
Sigh.
shawn
On 7-Nov-04, at 10:15 PM, Sean A. Walberg wrote:
A lot of angry users, judging by the comments. Sad that only a few of them have any understanding of networking and are completely overreacting. Shaping != blocking. TANSTAAFL.
Sean
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
It appears that Shaw may be starting to throttle Bittorrent traffic on their network....
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419
shawn
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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
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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
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