highlander wrote:srb wrote:highlander wrote:
Why haven't you called your ISP and asked them? Also, have you tried downloading from a website or FTP site without using BT to see if the speeds are still slow? If so get your ISP to check your connection.
High
I called Rogers immediately. The modem works well downloading directly from a website. I tried downloading from thehundredthmeridian through ftp last night, and that worked well too. The problem seems to be specifically bitTorrent (although I still have to check out edonkey and bearshare etc.)
I mentioned to the Rogers tech support, that I noticed my drops in speed while monitoring a torrent file. He informed me that I am not allowed to run torrents on Rogers' network, and that measures were being taken to stop them. I was told this is included in the End User Agreement. I read over it yesterday, and while I didn't find the words "Bit Torrent" in there, the hogging of the bandwidth could be an infraction, if you were to define bitTorrent as a file server, it could be an infraction.....I though these were the reasons that Rogers now has download caps for all its customers. So people wouldn't abuse the network.
I'd tell your ISP to go pound sand with the Eskimos. Preventing you from running a peer 2 peer program like BT or other is idiotic. You can tell them you are sharing uncopyrighted legal files and would be no different than hosting a file server or game server. Data comes in and goes out. It's your connection, you pay for it. You're entitled to the full speed up and down.
High
I couldn't agree with you more. However, running a file or web server is another infraction according to the End User Agreement (which I suppose because of bandwidth usage, they're declaring BT in the same category as a file server---B.S.). Basically I think they are trying to rid their network of "heavy" users, to raise the overall performance of their network. Also, when they introduce VOIP soon, they are going to want people using a little bandwidth as possible.
I've been looking into an alternative ISP today (
http://www.3web.ca), using DSL instead of cable. I could theoretically run both (I have 2 computers) and see if 3web is any good before cancelling with Rogers.
Has any other Rogers customers noticed a severe drop in their BT uploads? Is anyone else using 3web at the moment?
Edit: I have just tried an ftp upload, worked perfectly at 40Kb/s, downloads look normally quick on bearshare.
