Rogers is throttling IRC???

[viperman999]

Is Rogers now targeting IRC?

I use to get 600-800KB/s downloads on most IRC networks and channels. Now I tops out at 180-200KB/s with any networks and channels. It just never goes beyond the 200KB mark. And while downloading from IRC at 200KB/s, my internet browsing comes to a crawl loading Google, Craigslist, IMBD, etc. Web browsing goes back to normal once I cancel the IRC download. I use to never have this issue.

I'm on the Rogers extreme service. Rogers says may line test is fine on their end. Speed tests shows I'm between 7mbps and 8mbps with an upload of 814kbps. My IP has also changed to 99.xxx.xxx.xxx.

Any notice this using IRC?

[crazdefool]

its probably something else. irc is probably a tiny fraction of the bandwidth compared to the amount of bandwidth eaten up by bittorrent. but you never know with rogers.

also, when rogers throttles bittorrent the web browsing speed dosn't seem to drop (that i have noticed anyhow)

[lincoln]

Change your port to anything 10000 - 60000 and follow the following directions for your router
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

[Firefoxer]

I think from what I am seeing recently from Rogers is behavior bandwidth shaping, if a file download/upload last for more than a few seconds then your whole connection is throttled down until all bandwidth transactions stops for a specific time. Chances are its user or node specific.

Still try what lincoln said above and even try port 80(http) if it doesn't work.