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
November 7, 2007
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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
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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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