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

[nikosapi]

On March 27, 2008 23:17:09 Leif Thande wrote:
> My torrents are maxed at 30kb/s which is painfully slow, and the fact
> that I'm not using it for illegal stuff ( linux isos and South Park
> episodes mainly ) is only part of the problem, it also affects all
> encrypted traffic (VPN, ssh etc.. ) and finally, I really can't stand
> Bell's corporate attitude anymore.
>
> As for TekSavvy, I heard a lot of good feedback about them but
> switching wouldn't help because Bell is throttling their traffic too.
> Guess I'll have to wait for the wholesellers to sort it out with Bell
> and then switch.

That really sucks... For whatever reason I still seem to have good bittorrent 
download speed, maybe because I live in Laval.

Does anyone know if traffic between people in Montreal will be throttled? Or 
is the reason for this throttling the poor infrastructure in the 
Montreal/Toronto areas?

nick