[Discuss] Shaw regular average speed vs. Telus?

[Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert]

Not sure where you're located, but there is good fiber near Keating X-Road and in Sidney (an old BCSC director lived in Sidney and had the gov't string lines out there).  There's a few decent spots that both Shaw and Telus have for fiber depending on where you are, try and find a service that has a bigger client close by (like Disney, EA, etc.) which can dramatically reduce your costs since you can leverage the upgraded CO for those clients.  In the past I found asking the tech support helplines pretty effective in finding if there is a local connector close by.

Cheers,
Thor HW


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at vlug.org on behalf of R. McFarlane
Sent: Sun 1/21/2007 2:00 PM
To: discuss at vlug.org
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Shaw regular average speed vs. Telus?
 
On 1/21/07 1:06 PM, Scott Petersen wrote:

> 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 no throttles on telus ADSL for BT traffic.

> 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.

	I'm considering looking to see if I can get fiber to my home. Depending 
on the cost obviously. :)

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