I've tried every single step in this guide one by one and still my upload speeds are throttled to around 10kb/s. Even when I am seeding two torrents and not downloading anything, even if there's thousands of peers (leeching), I can't upload more than 10 kb/s. I tried the VPN, no luck. (I have: a core 2 intel, a d-link wbr-3200 router that is set up perfectly, a green check in utorrent and all the settings suggested earlier in this guide. DSLreports give 5048 kb/s download and a paltry 408 kb/s upload. Service = Rogers.) Is there a way to get around Rogers' throttling, short of switching to Bell? I have a good friend who works for the enemy of Canadian internet users everywhere and I have complained to them of the throttling of upload speeds many times. They are in a position where they know the inner workings of the Internet Dept there and can now answer my complaints and all of ours: The persons responsible directly for the Cable Internet department feel that they have to aggressively manage p2p, they refuse steadfastly to listen to everyone junior who tells them that maybe, just maybe p2p is the future of the internet and if they want to stop losing customers to Bell DSL like rats on a sinking ship maybe they should stop messing with torrents. Rogers can handle the bandwidth, they just don't want to. Apparently this issue has been mentioned, many times to these people at meetings an in reports and despite their own stats (according to their own stats from a year or two ago close to 85% of internet traffic in this country is torrent-related!) showing that most of their customers who pay for Cable internet (regular/extreme) use torrents heavily, they refuse to change! My friend says that the best way to get these people to change is to complain, loudly and directly- its just a few people directing these annoying policies and we need to show the company its more profitable to get along with torrent users. If enough people with accounts in good standing complain to the right people about how they are switching services to Bell, the higher-ups will take the initiative and things will change. Bell DSL doesn't throttle seeding. The best way to get this throttling to stop is to hit them where it hurts and change services. Then, find someone at Rogers to tell. We can find workarounds all we like and play cat-and-mouse but the only way to stop it for good is to let the company know we won't take it anymore.
