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P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| Give us the bandwidth we pay for, nothing less!
OK if a customer orders a certain tier of speed, say 6mbps/768kbps, then regardless of the internet provider customer is using, or the protocol being used, that's the speed they should get!
The last mile telco shouldn't be allowed to mess with speeds, especially between a customer and a totally separate ISP! Surely the network links between telco's and internet service providers have plenty of capacity, I mean prior to throttling there were no issues, so why the sudden change? And why is Canada so in to this whole let's degrade the internet experience for our users idea? It's not like it's hard to get Bandwidth. If I had a T1 connection between say me and a non-telco affiliated network, I'd expect to get full use of my 1.5mbit/sec line, unless of course I myself choose to only use a portion of the T1 for that network conection. I certainly would not be happy if the Telco that provided my T1 circuit decided to throttle my connection to the remote network just because they could. I'd expect the same equal treatment for DSL users. Otherwise what's the point of having speed caps at all? Hell why not just run all CPE devices uncapped, since the Telco themselves will take care of throttling your connection to a rate they feel will work, even if you're not on their network! It's rediculous, and I think this practice should be stopped. Throttling benifits noone, unless of course the whole goal of Bell and others considering this practice is to annoy evry customer, which makes no sense. The only throttle should be the speeds you requested, nothing else! |
