[MLUG] [Was: 29 march 2008] Bell Secretly Throttling Wholesale Internet Services?

[nikosapi]

On March 25, 2008 18:44:13 Randy Sears wrote:
>    There's quite a bit of info and talk about this on DSL reports:
>
>    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20223187-Update-on-throttling-issue
>
>    At the moment, they appear to be shaping anything file sharing related
> ie p2p traffic, NNTP, SFTP, but also apparently anything encrypted
> including VPNs. It appears VOIP traffic may also be impacted. The
> shaping begins at 4-5pm and ends at 2am, peak hours...I think it was
> said that the connections are dropped to 30K/sec. It may only be at
> some COs, but will be deployed to all COs in Ontario and Quebec by
> April 7th.
>     Randy
>

I'm downloading this torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4059158/ and I'm 
getting decent speed (>150KB/s) so I don't think I'm affected. I think it 
would be a good test torrent to see if any of you are being throttled (the 
music is CC licensed and it has 20:1 seed/leach ratio).

nick