Rogers or Cogeco for Torrents?

[NyteOwl]

DPI is effective against this. All it has to do is recognize the signature of a file and bam, it's throttled.

What signature? Using a VPN, SSH or SSL tunnel encrypts the packet data contents so that they appear as just random data. There is no "signature" to get. If they are throttling encrypted packets then they are throtttling them because they're encrypted, not because they can read the contents.

[Cheator]

Originally Posted by NyteOwl

What signature? Using a VPN or SSH tunnel encrypts the packet data contents so that they appear as just random data. There is no "signature" to get. If they are throttling encrypted packets then they are throtttling them because they're encrypted, not because they can read the contents.

They can't read the contents. They read the signature that shows that they're encrypted, and thats HOW they throttle encrypted traffic. Thats how the DPI boxes work, by signatures.

[NyteOwl]

In other words they throttle anything they can't read in plaintext. Then they are throttling more than just torrent traffic (do they throttle https/SSL connections ?). I personally would be filing complaints with both they, the CRTC, the Consumer Bureau and the Privacy Commissioner. Companies do this sh*te because people just lean back and let them get away with it without fighting back. Let their business customers discover they throttle VPN's and see what happens.

[Cheator]

Originally Posted by NyteOwl

In other words they throttle anything they can't read in plaintext. Then they are throttling more than just torrent traffic (do they throttle https/SSL connections ?). I personally would be filing complaints with both they, the CRTC, the Consumer Bureau and the Privacy Commissioner. Companies do this sh*te because people just lean back and let them get away with it without fighting back. Let their business customers discover they throttle VPN's and see what happens.

This is bell we're talking about right? Cause rogers does throttle secure connections.

Bell says thy leave VPN alone (they can determine the difference signatures of different encryptions) but I've had some VPN throttles in the past, infact while I was in talks with Bell about an issue I can't speak of here.

[Cheator]

Well I ended up going with Rogers since codeco isn't offered in my area.. ah well.