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

[Randy Sears]

   It's not by port...they are actually inspecting packets. But it is
true, one could still find ways around that, ugly as they are.
    Randy



>
> You could just run your ssh server on a non-standard port, no?
> I never leave my sshd running on port 22 anyway.
>
> Curtis Monroe wrote:
>>
>> I guess this means I need to make all my traffic look like HTTP
>> requests. I
>> hate playing stupid little games.
>>
>> http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/
>>
>> I often SSH to my server in New York, does this mean it will be slower
>> than
>> dialup now? insane!
>>
>> Sometimes I tunnel my HTTP connection via SSH to my New York server.
>> 30kbps
>> would suck.
>>
>> -Curtis.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The implications of this are staggering. Basically, what was
>>>> traditionnally considered as a neutral channel (the LNS tunnel) is now
>>>> being directly tampered with by Bell, without even bothering to talk
>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> It's fairly dramatic. It basically means that Bell now has taken the
>>>> permission of shaping its competitor's traffic.
>>>>
>>>> Talk about business practices...
>>>>
>>>> A.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:16:47PM -0400, Nick Nobody wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM, patricia campbell
>>>>> <triciamontreal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> the site is just slow, I've been browsing it for the last 2 weeks
>>>>>> off
>>>>> & on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> btw any one else have slow access via bell ??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>> Have you seen this: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2782/125/
>>>>>
>>>>> "Internet chat boards are buzzing with concerns that Bell has begun
>>>>> throttling Internet traffic for its wholesale services.  In other
>>>>> words, third party ISPs that buy their connectivity from Bell
>>>>> ("resellers") are being left with irate customers who are suddenly
>>>>> subject to packet shaped services."
>>>>>
>>>>> It really wouldn't surprise me if Bell was doing this. I did notice
>>>>> that google maps was slow over the weekend :(
>>>>>
>>>>> nick
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