[Discuss] Shaw regular average speed vs. Telus?

[Scott Petersen]

Scott Petersen wrote:
>> range. Remember, this was with regular Shaw service at the time. Shaw's
>> download speed has gone up for their regular service and their extreme
>> package is even faster. I now live in New Westminster and I regularly 
>> see
>> 1000 KB/s download with extreme. I think the best that Telus offers is 6
>> mbps (approx 550-600 KB/s) for the same price point.
>
> 1000 KB/s!!?!?!?  Holy fsck, I really am with the wrong ISP. =8-D
>
> Just out of curiosity, how do BitTorrent transfers go with Shaw?  I 
> originally heard that Shaw was throttling BitTorrent traffic, do they 
> do this, and if so, how much so?
>
> On a related note to that, although I don't know if it's applicable to 
> the original poster, Shaw's monthly bandwidth limits are *much* higher 
> than Telus' (with standard Telus DSL you get 30GB of traffic 
> "allowed", although I've gone well over 100GB in a month and never had 
> any complaints).
Shaw does throttle bitttorrent. Fairly drastically in my experience. 
When I just recently tried to download the Mandriva 2007 free DVD via a 
Torrent, I was getting about 15KB/s. Downloading the same thing from 
mirrors.kernel.org, I averaged 760 KB/s.

I have recently updated to a more recent built of Bittornado that 
supports encryption of the Bittorrent header. Which is supposed to 
prevent Shaw's traffic shapers from determining that the traffic is a 
torrent. It does seem to help but only to a point. I see up to 120 KB/s 
on a torrent now. Granted I don't use torrents a huge amount so I am 
basing this on the four torrents I have downloaded since the change.

And just to be clear, the 1000 KB/s is correct. I can download a 100 
megabyte file in a little over 100 seconds from the right server.

Cheers
Scott Petersen