[Discuss] Shaw regular average speed vs. Telus?

[Steven Kurylo]

> 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.

Right now on Shaw I'm averaging 1.2Mbps down and 0.3Mbps with BT.
Though any given torrent isn't going that fast...  It looks like
40Kbps is the fastest.  So they could be throttling individual
connections, but I haven't really noticed before.  I assumed the
torrent was slow.

> 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.

I'm downloading tornado right now... I'll switch over and see what happens.

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Steven Kurylo