jericho
join:2001-07-20
Halifax, NS
 ·Eastlink Cable
| 99% of isps in the usa and canada throttle
99% of isp's in the usa and Canada throttle most protocols to an extent, the only protocol that usually is left untouched is http, that is there main priority. web surfing, thats all isp's want anyone to do on there networks and nothing else , didnt you know this lol. But yeah we only hear about the big companies that throttle but I'm in Nova Scotia ,Canada and I'm on Eastlink as an isp and they have (on paper) a 15mbit tier which i am on but i never ever usually see any higher then 5mbits cause they throttle most everything to death , especially in the evenings and it gets really frustrating . I do a lot of ftp downloading whicch it throttled/capped to 5mbits, I think its unfair that we pay for a service that these boozooo's advertise but most times we never see the speeds they promise. its all just a marketing ploy. http is the only protocol my isp does not throttle but who needs 15mbits to surf, its nice for video streams but other then that id rather have good speeds with ftp, nntp ect... . anyway im done with my rant but as you see we only hear about the big companies that throttle but never the little ones but believe me most isp's throttle users to death. |
