[Discuss] Shaw regular average speed vs. Telus?

[Deryk Barker]

Scott Petersen wrote:
> 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.
Well, I'm on shaw and I don't seem to be experiencing throttling.

Of the last 7 torrents I downloaded (using ktorrent) 3 came in at 
average speeds of > 100KBps. I have seen them peak at considerably 
higher than this - certainly over 250KBps.


I think it depends, to a great extent on the peer group.