Damn You Rogers!
Just a quick note to say I hate Rogers Internet. Why? They’re throttling bandwidth to bittorrent. I conducted a few tests to see how well they were doing it too:
- Juno - 3192 seeders, 390 leechers - Averaging less than 20kbps down - Averaging around 20 kbps up
- Scrubs Season 1 - 43 Seeders, 83 leechers - Averaging around 25kbps down - Averaging around 50kbps up
- Ubuntu 7.10 - 131 Seeders, 8 leechers - Extreme variatons from 10-100kbps down - Averaging around 15kbps up
This raises the question. What’s with Ubuntu? Are they somehow filtering our downloads on torrents? Would that not mean that they’re actually looking at what we’re doing on the internet? Even if it’s a bot which is looking, that means that they have access to everything we’re doing on the internet. I’m not sure what to do about this. I’ll be calling them soon to ask, and I’ll hopefully have a recording of it. I know that there’s ways around this, but they require doing a bunch of stuff to your router firewall/ports, and I’m really not going to give up. I don’t even use bittorrent much, but when I do I really don’t want to be reminded that they’re either a. looking at my data or b. throttling all of it. If you’re thinking of changing, Steve Saylor, suggested Cogeco.
PS - If I stay on rogers, I might be buying the Extreme Plus package, 18mbps down is pretty good - Though this package seems to have disappeared off of the website…Hmm…
2 Responses to “Damn You Rogers!”
By Chris Thomson on May 7, 2008
Rogers doesn’t seem to be throttling my torrenting at all. Hmm. Maybe they just hate you?
PS - it might not be the greatest idea to be publishing illegal stuff on your blog. They’ll find you… eventually.
By admin on May 7, 2008
Maybe I should add a disclaimer that I didn’t want any of that stuff, so I deleted it all-And I wouldn’t dare pirate Scrubs, those guys work far too hard for me :P. I don’t really care about the throttling, the last time I used BitTorrent was quite awhile ago, I just care that they’re screwing with Net Neutrality.