[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] nebajoth: Bell's Throttling of Torrents and My Ire

[BJ]

Yup got Cogeco.  And much much better in the last year.. but still
certain bittorrent clients seem to get blocked..  I've had best
results with Deluge - I can get upwards of 100+ peer connections.


On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Windsor UNIX Users Group
<mavrinac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Author: nebajoth
>  Username: nebajoth (76-10-174-10.dsl.teksavvy.com)
>  Subject: Bell's Throttling of Torrents and My Ire
>  Forum: WUUG Talk
>  Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,108,108#msg-108
>  Approved: Yes
>
>  Now that Bell is throttling torrents upstream from the third parties, I find myself searching for a new ISP.
>
>  I am currently with Kelcom, and although I adore them, there's just no getting around the fact that throttling blows, and they can't evade it any better than I can without dropping some DSLAM equipment into the central office.
>
>  To my knowledge, MNSi is the only local ISP that has such facilities in our area.  But the @$%#ers don't offer dry loop.
>
>  Cable is looking pretty tempting with its 1MB up, and 16MB down.  Especially given that I presently have 650kbps up and 4200kbps down.
>
>  Does anyone here have Cogeco?  I know Cogeco had a rancid reputation for throttling a couple years back, but I heard some rumors that they've relaxed quite a bit about it recently.  I figure this is as they've added new pipes, but also probably to take advantage of the people flooding from Bell now.  That is, IF the rumor is true.
>
>  Anyone here got Cogeco and care to speak to that?
>
>