Mark Rejhon
join:2004-02-02
Ottawa, ON
 ·Magma Communications
| reply to chrish
Re: Globe and mail request for people to speak to about issue
I have three Vonage voip phone lines on my TekSavvy DSL connection and I have noticed more frequent degradation with some of these voip lines during peak periods, even though none of us are BitTorrent users.
Members of this household are renters, and we use voip partially because we can move them around to any new Internet connection, without paying for telephone reinstallation expenses, and I only need one incoming telephone line from the telephone pole (DSL connection) to run three Vonage phone lines simultaneously, even using my existing house wiring.
The voip connections are very latency sensitive. There are certain situations where we are web surfing while using the phone lines, and there are no problems even during evenings (peak periods). However, lately, I am noticing a little more latency than usual.
The act of filtering BitTorrent connections are having an unintended side effect on us legitimate users. In theory, Bell's BitTorrent throttling SHOULD improve voip connectivity, but this is not the case here.
Even though I am not a BitTorrent user, I would join a Parliament Hill protest regarding Bell/Rogers/network neutrality, if one was organized here in my home city of Ottawa. If you to contact me for more information, you can email me at (spamfilter) at (marky.com). |
