[RndTbl] Shaw packet loss

Sean Walberg sean at ertw.com
Tue Oct 19 11:20:04 CDT 2010


You mean
http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/AboutShaw/TermsofUse/AcceptableUsePolicyInternet.htm#traffic

<http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/AboutShaw/TermsofUse/AcceptableUsePolicyInternet.htm#traffic>?
:P

Sean

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:18 AM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:

> Just a side note on the shaping; the CRTC now requires that ISPs
> disclose their traffic shaping policy. You could request that Shaw
> give you that information and when they don't, take the complaint to
> the CRTC. Of course it will be a wast of time but I'd actually like
> someone to go through the process just to see if the CRTC ruling has
> had any effect.
>
> I just have not had any time to do this myself.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 10-10-19 10:39 AM, Sean Walberg wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mike Pfaiffer<high.res.mike at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>         Then there is their policy of slowing down the entire
> connection if
> >>> they determine someone is using bittorrent on a LAN (even if the user
> >>> caps the up and down speeds)
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you have a source for this? Are you sure it's not because you're
> starving
> >> out your upstream and therefore not able to get ACKs out?
> >>
> >> Sean
> >>
> >
> >        Give it a try. Grab a movie or something. Use a bittorrent client
> > capable of capping the up and down speed. Ktorrent can do this. See what
> > you can get for both up and down uncapped. Then try running say Firefox
> > and look at its performance. Stop the bittorrent transfer and look at
> > Firefox again in a few minutes. Set up a cap in bittorrent say 10K on
> > both the up and down (bear in mind this is supposed to be a
> > multi-megabit connection). Restart your bittorrent and see what happens
> > with Firefox. You'll notice the bittorrent will transfer to what ever
> > maximum you set while other programs will barely function on the
> > internet. Local transfers on the LAN are fine though.
> >
> >                                Later
> >                                Mike
> >
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