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Old 03-02-2009, 09:49 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead View Post
Check out the Shaw Forums at DSLReports.com.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r212...ringthrottling

Apparently some newer tech was rolled out last Oct.
There is alot of the same type of claims there as in this thread. Which doesn't demonstrate anything new. I did notice a couple things there which I find interesting.

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Originally Posted by llama64 View Post
If Shaw throttles torrents, then it must be a rather high limit.

I managed to cap out on 500kbps on two different torrents. Maybe that's slow to some, but for me that's pretty dang fast.
This is the part of the whole argument that indicates that it doesn't happen in Calgary. Unless only half the routers at the hubsites within the city use DPI, it would stand to reason that the effect would be universal.
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