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

[Alexander Bedard]

Nick Sklavenitis wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:01 -0400, Leif Thande wrote:
>   
>> Enough, I had it with Bell.I'm looking for another High speed Internet
>> provider. Anybody knows one which is not doing traffic shapping and
>> does not limit download and of course isn't a Bell wholeseller ?
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> I'm with teksavvy and i believe they go threw peer 1 so im not sure they
> are bell whole sellers. But i always assumed they were.
>
> Keep me posted on your findings. Also me and my co-worker have not been
> affected and from what i understand Dorval and Laal were affected. So
> maybe that helps.
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Wether they go throug Peer1.net doesn't really matter. The throttling is 
done on the Bell Nexxia network level (i.e. on the PPPoE network). The 
lines between your house and your ISP are being throttled, not your 
ISP's bandwidth itself.