HSPA FTW! bittorrent on Rogers Wireless is fast and unthrottled

April 15th, 2008HSPA FTW! bittorrent on Rogers Wireless is fast and unthrottled

Get this for delicious ironies of our day. Download speeds on Rogers wireless cellular/HSDPA network are hitting 250 kBytes/sec. Observed torrent rates on the throttled-within-an-inch-of-its-life home “broad”-band are closer to 30 kBytes/sec. What does this mean?

Rogers wireless network is wide open. No deep packet inspection. Due to the physics of airwaves, it’s the one network that should be most constrained and yet they’ll let you run all the bandwidth saturating P2P apps you want. Crazy that you can do this over the air but not over wireline.

Mobile broadband is fast. The highspeed airwaves are empty, like a fresh built freeway just before it’s consumed by suburbia. enjoy while the going is good.

Pissed off by slow access over cable? Run a few torrents over the air. Better effective bandwidth and you can take it anywhere.

Somewhere, someplace, a Rogers network engineer wants to kill me for telling you this.

*This is with a 3.6Mbs cellular PC card (about $99 unlocked on eBay) . 7.2Mbs cards are also on the market, and the network may be capable of it in your area.

BitTorrent

way to hit the speed with HSPA. i didn't know you could get these speeds
anon

I hit those speeds regularly with just plain rogers internet. The speeds are affected by the number of people in the area. In my town of 13ish thousand, I get 250-400ks no problem. In the city, 75ish+ thousand, you're lucky to hit 100kbs. All on just regular rogers cable internet.
Eric Hacke

The really crazy thing is that they also say on their website that you won't be charged more than $100 a month, regardless of usage. $100 for 7.2Mbs unthrottled wireless internet anywhere in the GTA seems pretty awesome to me.

Wirelessnorth.ca

April 15th, 2008HSPA FTW! bittorrent on Rogers Wireless is fast and unthrottled

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