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Originally Posted by woob
I'm on Shaw Extreme and I can confirm the 14% throttle.
Torrenting, I have never seen a speed higher than 2.7MBps = 21.6Mbps.
1-(21.6/25)*100 = 13.8% throttled, where 21.6 is my "real" speed, and 25 is the advertised speed.
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I kinda doubt that's entirely throttling, considering 4-5%ish on top of that speed is probably IP headers, and i'm sure there's probably quite a decent amount of control traffic for torrenting, and you'll never get the full 25mbps down to the last bit anyways.
Telus definitely does rate limiting for regular downloads, don't know about torrents. I generally just use a certain file hosting website to download everything from, which i always get about 14.6mbps from (incl headers). I downloaded about 20GB a day on monday/tuesday/wednesday at full speed, and come thursday i started a download and get 60KB/s, but only from that site, everything else was fine. Except, i was watching my bytes downloaded go... 256KB.. pause ..512KB.. pause ..768KB.. pause.. 1024KB. So at that point it was painfully obvious what telus was doing, so i just turned on my work VPN and sure enough was back to 1.5MB/s once telus couldn't identify the traffic.