Alternatives to Rogers for Torrents?

[ronniefung]

What's the next best deal out there? In terms of reliability as well. I've been happy with the almost no downtime from Rogers in the past coupla years.

This whole Torrent throttling has my blood boiling though. I just canceled and have 30 days to find a new ISP.

I'm looking to switch providers, but am a little unsure about what to get.

I've looked into a few companies, but I'm not the biggest computer guy.

I'm okay with DSL as long as there is no restrictions and it has good customer support.

The last thing I want to do is switch to some little company that has NO customer support and has crazy downtimes.

I'm currently paying about $45 a month from Rogers with their Hi-Speed Extreme. I don't mind paying a little more for a quality connection with NO throttling!!!!

Any help appreciated.

I would prefer help from people that ARE currently using other providers.

If it makes a difference, I'm located in the Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton area.

Cheers!

[gsrce]

I get about 150+ kbps through the sympatico high speed. I'm usually between 150-300 kbps depending on the torrent.

[gilboman]

I get about 150+ kbps through the sympatico high speed. I'm usually between 150-300 kbps depending on the torrent.

but new sympatico subscribers get a rediculous 30gb limit though so doesnt do ppl much good to switch to sympatico for torrents

[chrome_dout]

To the OP - take a look at dslreports.com as they rate and review many ISP's. Also that site has threads about the workarounds for downloading bit torrents via Rogers. Also have you considered subscribing to a good NNTP provider? granted it will cost you extra (say 15/mth) but you can get anything and everything at your max speed through newsgroups.

[gsrce]

but new sympatico subscribers get a rediculous 30gb limit though so doesnt do ppl much good to switch to sympatico for torrents

Really? When did they implement this?

[ronniefung]

To the OP - take a look at dslreports.com as they rate and review many ISP's. Also that site has threads about the workarounds for downloading bit torrents via Rogers. Also have you considered subscribing to a good NNTP provider? granted it will cost you extra (say 15/mth) but you can get anything and everything at your max speed through newsgroups.

I'm interested in the NNTP stuff. I don't mind paying 15 a month or so, are there any good newsgroups for TV shows, music and movies all combined?

I did a qucik google search on them, and Ic an't find anything conclusive.

[Diamondog]

http://www.newshosting.com/

$14.95 unlimited account with 8 connections. Trust me on this speed not capped by newshosting or Rogers. Once you get turned on to usenet and everything the binary groups have to offer music, movies (of every format), software, games, tv shows, ps2 xbox there is everything you can possibly think of there...there just is simply nothing IMO that compares. It's a paid service yes but worth every penny. I probably pull down and up 300+gb a month.

[gsrce]

Torrents usually are up before newsgroup stuff though, depending on what you're downloading.

[Diamondog]

Torrents usually are up before newsgroup stuff though, depending on what you're downloading.

Not for movies, music, apps, games, ps2, xbox or just about anything else I do, torrents are lame and are only used for a trading group I am part of for limited downloads and have gotten much lamer now that Rogers is playing games.

[TenzoR]

i'm still getting 250-350KB/s ...from Rogers

[chrome_dout]

*********.info has all the groups and posts listed, and provides free .nzb files. It's an amazing site!

[ronniefung]

http://www.newshosting.com/

$14.95 unlimited account with 8 connections. Trust me on this speed not capped by newshosting or Rogers. Once you get turned on to usenet and everything the binary groups have to offer music, movies (of every format), software, games, tv shows, ps2 xbox there is everything you can possibly think of there...there just is simply nothing IMO that compares. It's a paid service yes but worth every penny. I probably pull down and up 300+gb a month.

I just signed up....where do i find accessible group listings? is there a search engine similar to torrents?

[shawn99]

Well newshosting says only single user, but can't use a proxy to share among friends to help foot the bill?

or use the tunneler, http://www.metropipe.net/wiki/index...._Reading_HOWTO

[ah802]

If you're using BT to download movies, consider renting them or use something like zip.ca; Better quality and for the most part cheaper over the monthwith less effort. For your email, going back to dial-up might negate the ~$ savings, but it would send a message.

I find it hard to believe we got hooked into paying ~$50 a month with less and less service.. almost to the point of abuse.

[Diamondog]

I just signed up....where do i find accessible group listings? is there a search engine similar to torrents?

You need to install a news reader client I suggest Agent news reader, when you go through the install it will ask for your newshosting user/pass info as well as newshostngs server info which can be found here: http://www.newshosting.com/index.php...nformation.php

Then the software will ask if you want to download a listing of the available groups it will download 50,000+ groups from which you would search and subscribe (when I say subscribe that is how you add the group to your list of "prefered" groups it doesn't cost). Then the software will download available headers in each group, you'll want to sort by author at the top of agent or else it'll be to crazy to go through everything. The first time Agent downloads all the headers for groups it is nt uncommon for it to take hours in some binary groups to download because there is so much available in the group. After youy get all the headers for each group your interested in downloaded and sorted by author then you go through the listings to see what you want to download, delete the rest. The first time tales the longest because there is so much data in some groups to download the headers and go through but once you go through it all and download headers (in my case once a day from the groups I subscribe to) it is very quick to download and go through. A list of available groups from newshosting can be found at: http://www.newshosting.com/grouplist/grouplist.txt *NOTE the groups that start alt.binaries........are the groups with data in them such as movies games music etc...an example would be alt.binaries.dvd here you can download new/old dvd's PAL or NTSC.