| Throttling? More like choking I have deliberately started some bittorrents to watch the speed vs time of day. It seems to be continually choked off. Where speeds of 500K/s were typical before now they never get above 50K/s, and at peak times are 25K/s (peak time is virtually all the time, it seems).
I use bittorrent to collect live concerts which are shared by fans and ok'd by the bands themselves. It's not illegal. I also grab linux distros. I chose a high speed connection and pay the higher price to allow me to do this specific purpose. I download about 10-15GB a month. Now Bell arbitrarily decides it needs to throttle this particular protocol. I could live with reductions at peak times from 500K to 300K or even down occasionally to the same rate as the upload speed, but 25K?! Virtually all the time?! While my monthly fee remains the same? This is criminal. I don't even subscribe to Bell. I can't tell them what to go do with their service. If I dump my ISP, I'm hurting Teksavvy, whom I have no complaints against whatsoever.
This fish stinks from the head down. |
