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

[David Filion]

Jean-Francois Theroux wrote:
> Over subscription at its best. It was cheaper for them to buy traffic 
> shaping boxes to throttle people than upgrade their network to support 
> what their marketing/sales people have been selling us. It was fine 
> and dandy to sell 'unlimited' access back when people read emails and 
> visited a few websites per night.
>
> Now, with so much multimedia being done online, they just can't keep up.
>
> I'm on the same boat, once Videotron starts throttling me, I'm 
> switching. On the other hand, I pay extra every month because I 
> download too much. But it's always blazing fast. For now ; )
>
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Switch to who is the big question?  Some may be lucky enough to be able 
to get service from VDN, otherwise everything is Bell/Videotron at some 
level (this may have changed but I'm not aware of it).  Maybe a business 
grade connection would get around these shenanigans.


David f.