Help beat bell sympatico's throttling.

[slomo]

Isn't there 30 days notice policy if you want to change? That's why I am thinking I should make my decision by end of April and call up Rogers so everything will be changed by May 31st... Because come June, they will start charging.

AFAIK, there is the 30 day notice termination policy with Bell. So if you tell them you are canceling the service today, you will still be connected and on the hook for bills until May 17.

[sporb]

That image makes no sense at all....
Enron = cooking the books
Bell = throttling 3rd party providers.

find a two year old, they could probably explain it for you.

[rilhouse]

Rogers is throttling both P2P traffic and any encrypted traffic (i.e. it makes no differentiation between mail packets encrypted by PGP or encrypted BT packets from uTorrent). This throttling seems to be in effect 24/7.

It is a little different from Bell's case because Bell is also selling their bandwidth to independent ISPs. So it makes little sense that what Bell decides to do to their customers would also apply to customers of their customers.

After June I am going to have a serious look at whether or not I should switch to TechSavvy. I am with Rogers now and I am not too happy with the throttling of encrypted traffic.

it varies from person to person. for me, i'm getting full speed BT downloads but throttled BT uploads (10kB/s). other people on rogers have reported no throttling at all.

[torseller07]

Isn't there 30 days notice policy if you want to change? That's why I am thinking I should make my decision by end of April and call up Rogers so everything will be changed by May 31st... Because come June, they will start charging.

I believe you are right about the notice policy. To me, the download quota isn't really an issue (I rarely use above 40GB a month and having the remaining 20GB as buffer seems to work well). I am more anonyed by the throttling of encrypted traffic from Roger's and that's why I am considering swtiching.

I have to check with other Roger's subscribers that I know. I believe most of them (if not all) told me they were being throttled 24/7. I believe Azareus wiki also described Roger's throttling policy as such. So I thought it's something that are common to everyone.

[rosebud]

3) insert the CRTC file number (# 8622-C51-200805153) into the "Subject" Line and

Done!!!!!

[bubble.tea]

What're the timings for throttling?

It's been 3 weeks now that I'm noticing my sustained speeds are no longer.....however...I still get sustained 500kb/s DL speeds and 80kb/s upload streams during weird times of the day....yes even during what would seem to be 'peak periods'?? strange.


1 Q: People always used to say "Cable Sucks" because your connection is shared. People always used to say DSL is awesome because your connection isn't shared rather dedicated. SO...if it is truly dedicated, and not shared...what difference would it make what the next person is doing...shouldn't your connection remain fixed? I guess it doesn't right?

So...that's the premise upon which DSL Provider Bellus is saying., enough is enough., we're going to do something to ensure our average customer gets sustained speeds for SURE now? Was that folk-story just that all along? and DSL was in fact as affected by neighbourhood demands...just not as MUCH as cable is?

[rosebud]

Hi bub,

I've noticed the torrent cap between 2pm until 2am, but it could vary.

Straight downloads are capless.