Rogers Extreme is the Lameness
19 September 2006, lunch time
I have Rogers Extreme. It’s normally quite fast. Downloading files from fast servers is a pleasant experience. Using BitTorrent however is a whole other story. I’m downloading a file at 1.7 KB/sec 0 KB/sec. Rogers and I have different definitions of what EXTREME Internet should feel like.
Update: I should add that everything else is wicked fast. Wicked wicked fast. So I don’t hate Rogers that much.
Update: Various tricks get me up to about 50 KB/sec down now, sometimes closer to 80 KB/sec. For comparison, in my old neighbourhood I used to get closer to 200 KB/sec before, on their regular high-speed service.
Update: I’m finally getting speeds I expect. So this post has been renamed to “Rogers Extreme”.
Update Feb 12th 2007: And its slow once more. As such, I’ve renamed this post once again. What’s the point of “extreme” Internet if you can’t download huge files with Bittorrent?
Update Mar 7 2007: TekSavvy FTW!
are you using port 1720?
by josh on September 19 2006, 2:26 pm #
It really doesn’t help much. I tried that for a bit too. In my old neighbourhood using any large port number would work.
by ramanan on September 19 2006, 2:27 pm #
You need to use Azeureus and encrypt the packets. I use port 30300 and get decent speeds. Dad took us off Extreme so the speeds are reasonable I suppose. If you encrypt your packets it doesn’t matter what port you use. What are you trying to get off BT?
by Krishna on September 19 2006, 2:37 pm #
Just grabbed Azureus now. It took a couple seconds, as I was getting 700KB/sec. It’s frustrating how much slower BitTorrent is. I’ll let you know if it’s any better. I hate that client though. It’s such a stereotypical open-source application: tons of features and an ugly interface.
by ramanan on September 19 2006, 3:47 pm #
utorrent works pretty good too with encryption enabled
by Shawn on September 19 2006, 3:53 pm #
Here’s another nod to utorrent and encrypted packets. However, it seems like Cogeco started using something to shape encrypted traffic too. Their extreme package is supposedly 15mbps though I see nothing close to that…
by haran on September 19 2006, 4:42 pm #
man does high speed in the US suck.
by awardtour on September 19 2006, 4:59 pm #
15mbps…? I’ll second awardtour. Jesus. My top download speeds are usually around 200KB.
by Ben on September 19 2006, 5:05 pm #
1720 is supposed to be unaffected by ‘shaping’ because its the same port their VOIP product uses. they may have found a workaround by now though..
see if dslreports forums can help…
by josh on September 19 2006, 6:49 pm #
Extreme is 6 MPS, but I have heard they are going to start a 15 MPS server—it’d be billed at $100 a month. That 1720 thing doesn’t work anymore, and hasn’t for quite some time I think. It doesn’t take much work for these traffic shappers to figure out what’s a VoIP packet and what isn’t. Even encrypting the packets may not work; they might be able to guess what’s going on based on the amount of data you are sending out of a port, the amount of data you are recieving, and how the data is being sent.
by ramanan on September 19 2006, 9:02 pm #
$100! who pays that for internet access?
a friend of mine just got back from France and he said his friend gets basic cable + 10(?) Mbps + free voip for $30 a month.
Or just head to Korea and get 100Mb.
by awardtour on September 19 2006, 9:07 pm #
I say screw BT and use IRC. XDCC bots are so much faster anyways. BT is only good for large files, like a season of a show or a dvd-r movie
by Krishna on September 20 2006, 12:17 pm #