Yeah, it seems to be TV shows that they hate the most. Every once in awhile I'll try and get something else and it'll work out fine.. I only have one show at a time though.. and right after I got the last episode of Six Feet Under, they must have put some kind of limiter on my account.. every episode of Lost is now an excruciating, painful undertaking requiring constant restarting.
I used to work at Shaw. I'm assuming you don't have "Lite". If you have regular internet, there's kind of an unwritten 20 GB/month limit; that's when you'll get the warning.
They recently brought in something called "Extreme", which has an explicit 50 GB/month limit for $10 extra. I got it, not so much because I do lots of torrents, but more because I have renters who are sharing the connection and I don't know what they're doing.
Might be something to think about. I don't work for 'em anymore, but I'm still a relatively satisfied customer.
I have Extreme. it's a f'in joke. My internet is so slow.. and I don't download a TON of torrents.. only one per week! and yet it freezes after five minutes. What is the point of paying extra for that.. GRR..
The torrent client. It's like there's some kind of trigger.. after 5 minutes of downloading all the torrents stop simultaneously, and they're all from different sources, so I think it must be the provider. Or maybe some kind of setting in XP or my network card? I access the internet through a hub.
I use shaw. And often my torrents run actively for hours on end. But there are times when it seems that I can't get one to download no matter how long I wait.
I have no problems with BT on shaw. BT speeds are based on client availability so you will see the speeds jump up and down and freeze from time to time.
no, but they all freeze simultaneously at calculated intervals. I can have 3 torrents going on from different providers and they ALL freeze after 5 minutes. It's definitely something Shaw has going on. Do you live in Vancouver proper? I heard they were doing some kind of test bottlenecking in Vancouver.. my friend in Surrey is fine.
A whole season of a TV show now takes almost a week for me to DL. WTF! Seems like Shaw put a restriction on my account but I have not gone over 20g in a month, the only one I did this month was maybe 8g. Plus, I did not get a letter.
there was a big thing about it online a while back but the only mainstream place to cover was the cbc i think. and they got the prez of shaw to admit it on camera.
Change your default port for BT downloads, it makes a world of difference,
Recently discovered & verified - Some ISPs are throttling the traffic on the BitTorrent default ports. Changing the ports from the default range to a different range (in the 50000's) changed downloading from a trickle (1-2 kB/s) to The Way It Should Be (up to 330 kB/s on a 3000/256 connection). This almost seems unethical, but ISPs have probably taken note that BitTorrent traffic has become over 50% of Internet traffic by some surveys. BitTorrent also saturates the 'slow' side of asymmetric connections with it's uploading, which upsets the 'surf and download' usage the cable modem providers are expecting from their typical user.
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They recently brought in something called "Extreme", which has an explicit 50 GB/month limit for $10 extra. I got it, not so much because I do lots of torrents, but more because I have renters who are sharing the connection and I don't know what they're doing.
Might be something to think about. I don't work for 'em anymore, but I'm still a relatively satisfied customer.
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and it only freezes for a few seconds
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Are you accessing the internet straight through the cable modem or through a router?
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I access the internet through a hub.
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BT speeds are based on client availability so you will see the speeds jump up and down and freeze from time to time.
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I haven't gone over 50g (my limit with Extreme) since July. I haven't even gone past 30g. And still i get this.
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i've been looking for a good one.
i download some tv shows and movies off of soulseek
Exeem is kind of slow.
October 24 2005, 21:21:29 UTC 6 years ago
torrentspy.com
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there was a big thing about it online a while back but the only mainstream place to cover was the cbc i think. and they got the prez of shaw to admit it on camera.
i'd find you links but I'm lazy. googletime
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it makes a world of difference,
Recently discovered & verified - Some ISPs are throttling the traffic on the BitTorrent default ports. Changing the ports from the default range to a different range (in the 50000's) changed downloading from a trickle (1-2 kB/s) to The Way It Should Be (up to 330 kB/s on a 3000/256 connection). This almost seems unethical, but ISPs have probably taken note that BitTorrent traffic has become over 50% of Internet traffic by some surveys. BitTorrent also saturates the 'slow' side of asymmetric connections with it's uploading, which upsets the 'surf and download' usage the cable modem providers are expecting from their typical user.