Many people have written to note that new reports from P2Pnet, Ars Technica, and Technaute.com indicate that Bell has admitted that it is traffic shaping peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent. I argued a couple of weeks ago that the starting point to address these issues is for far greater transparency from Canada's ISPs.
Bell and Traffic Shaping
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They’ve been packet shaping since 2003. People are just getting wise to it now.
Slycks Coverage
Slyck also caught the admission. Link can be found here: [ link ]
didler
Slyck didn’t get it all. They only mentioned a part of whats heppening. Refer to: [ link ]
More inside info on this topic at:
[ link ]
It kind of hits topics related to whats happening with sympatico and the above article
Download not Upload
funny, the stuff on tests I\’ve done on my linux box show that the packet shaping for p2p traffic is only on the download! lol. how odd.
Is there a best of the worst ISP? I want to communicate with lab instruments over the net from my home via encrypted IPv6. I am presently with Rogers but I will need to dump them.
BTW thanks to Micheal for all you hard work with the DMCA issue
[quote]Is there a best of the worst ISP? I want to communicate with lab instruments over the net from my home via encrypted IPv6. I am presently with Rogers but I will need to dump them. [/quote]
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