The CBC reports on the CAIP's final response to Bell in the throttling case.
CAIP Responds to Bell in Throttling Case
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Huh?
I love Bell’s comment “P2P applications are designed to eat up all available bandwidth”. The throughput is, at the very least, throttled by the last mile connection. While it could eat all of that connection, it can’t eat the backbone bandwidth. Let’s say that you have a 256 kbps service from Sympatico. That link provides a throttle itself, meaning that the most the P2P app could use is 256 kbps.
Also, hasn’t Bell also made a point of advertising that using their service you are not affected by the actions of your neighbours (by inference, they aren’t affected by your actions)?
“Also, hasn’t Bell also made a point of advertising that using their service you are not affected by the actions of your neighbours (by inference, they aren’t affected by your actions)?”
whoa there, your not actually expecting the speeds advertised are you? Those speeds are just for casual use. Besides there is a one sided non negotiated contract that says the ISP can do whatever it wants, as long as they post it somewhere, sometime. And if you don’t like it you can cancel your contract, after you pay them their profit you agreed to when you signed said contract.
Yeah, I know that the chances of actually getting the full advertised bandwidth is extremely low… and that the advertising only referred to the \”last mile\” connection (from the switch to your home), is isn\’t where they were performing the shaping.
Yep, that is quite a contract. You sign it, we can change the conditions at will with no penalty, you try to cancel you owe us money.