arstechnica.com — Canada's major ISPs have all turned over to regulators information about their use of deep packet inspection to throttle file-sharing apps, and one thing is clear: Canada's Internet, like its beer, is straight-up cold-filtered.
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magzineJan 22, 2009
bolehvpn.NET.com = advertispam
x060tJan 22, 2009
@kd420:You see it from consumer's point of view - like, "if i subscribe to unlimited 100Mbps, i want it to be always 100Mbps, regardless of what i do - i only torrent linux, not pirating so stop throttling me" and you're partially right. However, if you check how the system works, you'll see that in this case they don't care about your pirated porn downloads. Read the article, they are afraid of several torrent users using all of the district's bandwidth (especially upstream on cable networks). So you say you want the promised speed 100% if the time? So does your neighbout and his neighbour, etc. If any ISP would try to do this, they'd have to buy more and faster equipment, so you'd have to pay several times more for your access - are you ready for this? You can look at it in similar way as at insurance company - if customers wreck their cars once in a while (~download on maximum speed sometimes) it's ok and that's how they plan it. But if you and some other guys wreck a car every day (~downloading torrents frequently), you'll drain the company's money and leave other customers with nothing and the company goes bankrupt. And if the company plans that everybody can wreck a car per day - imagine what would be your anunual insurance cost.So frankly, an ISP has 3 options:1) Do nothing about traffic and get constant complains from a majority of customers, who suffer low speed and IPTV/VoIP failures in the districts where torrent users are most active2) Install much more and much faster equipment and charge you several times more (and completely fail in the regions, where they have any competitors) or make a lower speedcap at existing equipment ("yes, you now only get 128Kbps instead of 5Mbps, but we 100% guarantee that you'll have it even if all customers use it simultaneously")3) Shape traffic so that VoIP/IPTV get high priority, normal internet traffic - medium priority and torrents - low priority. Yes, that does affect some network activity (slows torrents), it does get you some blame from torrent users and net neutrality activists, but at least allows to run business.So yes, it's easy to criticize ISP for shaping and i myself don't like when torrents go slow as well. But if you can propose a solution that satisfies everybody (including ISP, who must still have profit) - i'm all ears.
darkstar3333Jan 22, 2009
According to bell that is *unlimited*Switch to TekSavvy, you might as well spend your money with a company that defends your rights as a consumer.
evil_doerJan 22, 2009
i dunno why someone dug you down aturaten. im on teksavvy and use mlppp on tomato and yes, throttling is completely gone.this is fully supported by the isp. they are strongly against throttling. screw bell and rogers and the rest of them.
evil_doerJan 22, 2009
thats weird that posts mentioning mlppp are being dug down by someone. Bell shill?
diskitJan 26, 2009
Here he says he doesn't use scripts: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/world_news/African_Immigration_to_Europe_The_Big_Picture?t=22708523#c22709770">http://digg.com/world_news/African_Immigration_to_ ...</a>So I guess he just spends a lot of time on the internet.
highway2hellFeb 22, 2009
What can i Say !This is the a Perfect Example of the Corporate f**ks that Ruin Everything.If you can find a way to literally destroy those bastards either it's by ripping them off in some way until they are bankrupt or by organizing a public boycottagainst them , then You better use this opportunity !Otherwise they will keep YOU enslaved for ever !
rover069Jun 9, 2009
Sounds like an idea, I pay way to much to have my service filtered. hell at $54 a month for the use of a line that was put down in the 80's (90's if we're lucky) they shouldn't be throttling anything.