In addition to torrent traffic, has anyone else noticed that their FTP traffic is now 10% of what it was? I used to get between 500 and 650 KByte/s from my private server which has a ~7MByte/s uplink, and now I'm downloading at 50KB/s.

Have you contacted Rogers? What did they say? What service are you on?

I've read about this over at this site. (http://xvi.com/forums/topic.php?t=90878#lr)
"apparently rogers is throttling any traffic that uses multiple connections, so no matter if you are encypted or what port you are on, its not going to make a difference. That is why the speeds are going up and down, etc, and why VPN still works"

I have been experiencing slow web page loading for the last few weeks. I thought Rogers might be having DNS problems but now I am not sure. My torrents are definitely being throttled.

Is it possible that Firefox is getting caught in this throttling as well because I have set it up to connect multiple times to a website for faster loading?

I've read about this over at this site. (http://xvi.com/forums/topic.php?t=90878#lr)
"apparently rogers is throttling any traffic that uses multiple connections, so no matter if you are encypted or what port you are on, its not going to make a difference. That is why the speeds are going up and down, etc, and why VPN still works"
If that's the case, passive mode ftp should work OK. Web browsers act as passive mode ftp clients if you connect to a site using a URL starting with "ftp://"

If that's the case, passive mode ftp should work OK. Web browsers act as passive mode ftp clients if you connect to a site using a URL starting with "ftp://"

In passive mode the ftp-data connection is initiated by the client, while in active mode it is initiated by the server (source TCP port 20). FTP session still uses 2 connections: ftp-control & ftp-data.