Canadian ISP is throttling BitTorrent traffic
Written by Ernesto on December 21, 2005The Canadian ISP “Rogers” has started to kill all BitTorrent traffic on their network. Rogers uses a bit-shaping application to throttle the traffic that is generated by BitTorrent and other p2p applications.
They are still finetuning the bit-shaping application, and apparently they had some problems configuring it the right way. Last month they were even blocking podcasts and songs from the Itunes music store.
It’s ironic that the same ISP advertises with the slogan:
“for sharing large files and much more”
Well, there’s not much to share when they block all p2p traffic including the best protocol to share large files (BitTorrent). You can can read more about this over here.
upd: But we have encryption
Previously: Unwanted torrents
Next: BitTorrent is hiring
163 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] Show All
Join the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22831345087 to protest Sympatico and Rogers limiting P2P traffic
BitTorrent downloads on Rogers connections isn’t as limiting as you may think. All you need is the proper configurations to your software and hardware, and you can still max your download speed.
Last night, I used my Extreme connection to download something on uTorrent, and reached a 1.0MB/s download speed.
Do some research folks.
Well guys it’s this simple; I am paying ~40$ a month for 5Mb ADSL from MNSI, which unfortunately uses Bell’s DSlans so yeah, I’m going to get screwed here.
So what my problem is, when you pay for unlimited usage (no bandwidth cap) for 5Mb service, you technically are being told that everyone who bought this can, at the same time, download at around 540KB/s without stopping constantly all day all night forever. If not then they are overselling their network and lying to their customers. Even if it’s not MNSI’s fault that Bell is caping bandwidth on common BitTorrent ports, it still affects the end user.
Whenever a game patch is out, or when SP2 for xp came out, and SP1 for Vista and SP3 for XP comes out, I will only download via torrent, because unlike dedicated file servers which can only handle a couple of hundred users at a time, torrents actually get faster. So yeah, everybody wins except ISP’s who have to pay for that bandwidth.
This is, to put it gently, totally fucking bullshit.
rogers sucks ass. we should mount a class action suit
I don’t appreciate Rogers telling me what I can and cannot do, i purchased a service with no restrictions and i expect to receive that service.
Why are they targeting just p2p websites, why not target all illegal internet activities such as child pornography. If Rogers wants to act as an internet cop they can’t just pick and chose their battles.
This will slowly undermine the net neutrality concept in which the internet was founded on.
http://www.blogto.com/tech/2008/03/rogers_now_with_more_bullshit_and_baseball/
I just got charged two $30 charges for overusage… I was on contract for 3 years (extending every year) and nobody told me this feb that I was going to be charged for extra bandwidth… I hate telecom in canada we’re worse then a 3rd world country… i hope that bell and rogers burn in hell…
we’re paying more for high speed then 10 years ago… i remember rogers was $45 and was faster then it is now… its brutal
6 references to this post
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] Show All
Add your response