p2pnet news | Freedom:- Traffic throttling is an outright outrage, no two ways about it.

But it has its lighter moments, as WirelessNorth reports, also telling p2pnet the situation remains unchanged.

Get this for delicious ironies of our day, it says, going on >>>

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.

Definitely stay tuned

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