[Discuss] Shaw and bandwidth shaping.

[Andrew Resch]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:58 -0800, Scott Petersen wrote:
> Chris Hennessy wrote:
> > I have never really had a problem with big files.  I use Firefox and not
> > Konquerer.  I am on Shaw and Mandriva.   I usually do try to get a torrent
> > for the files though.
> > 
> > Chris
> > On Jan 15, 2008 11:16 AM, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> I had a similar problem using a web browser to download
> >> ISOs. Using 'wget' instead of the browser fixed the problem.
> >>
> Interesting, over here in Vancouver I have had a lot more problems with 
> Shaw and Torrents than I have with direct downloading. I also use 
> Firefox under Mandriva.
> 
> The issue with torrents is that Shaw in certain areas shapes traffic for 
> the torrents. It shapes on some sort of fingerprint of torrent traffic 
> rather than on a particular port or range of ports. The way around that 
> was to use the new breed of Torrent clients (BitTornado here) that 
> support encrypting the torrent traffic. The last time I downloaded 
> anything (about 1.5 months ago) it moved along at about 200 Bps compared 
> to the 4-8 prior to the encryption.
> 

We've had good reports from users using the encryption in Deluge.  You
may want to check it out if you don't care much for BitTornado or the
likes.

http://deluge-torrent.org

Cheers,
Andrew