Blacktales
@umontreal.ca
| AEI in Montreal now throttling P2P upload ? Hello
Until yesterday i was perfectly satisfied with AEI (contrary to a lot of people it seems ) as they let me download however much i wanted (though lately i was pretty calm on the download side ) and the connection was up and fast enough most of the time (if you rule out the occasional connection drops).
Now it seems Montreal is on the Comcast way ? This morning i noticed my connection was really bad when trying to browse with both firefox and IE (with uTorrent running in the background) resulting in slow loading when not simply connection timeouts. And the uTorrent connection could actually go quite high in download but upload was shitty (1-2k).
I restarted uTorrent and noticed the upload is initially quite high but goes down in a matter of seconds. If uTorrent is closed, browsing with firefox resumes at a high speed. All those signs point to traffic shaping unless I'm mistaken.
I still haven't called AEI to confront them as i want to check again this evening and see if other people are having the same problems but since AEI rents the lines and bandwidth from Bell, I'm not putting my hopes up seeing the recent reports of traffic shaping from Bell. If the problem is still on, i will try to call AEI to know if the problem originates from them of Bell. If the latter, I'll ask them if they plan/can do something about it and depending on the answer might cancel my account.
If things go this way, is there another ISP in Montreal that truly has unlimited BW / does not have to account to Bell / does not shape traffic ? Any other advices on managing the problem ? Is there any legal point i should know in complaining about that ?
Thanks IA |
