| Understandable I misunderstood this piece at first glance. I initially thought that bell was throttling leased circuits (like DS3, ether, etc.) as a WAN peer to the public Internet. I got it backwards; they're just throttling their local loop which other parties are using to provide broadband services. If they were throttling dedicated circuits I would wholeheartedly agree that this is wrong because having the freedom to do whatever you want with your circuits is part of the reason you pay a premium for them. Since this is just shared access broadband, I don't really see what all the fuss is about.
I agree it's shady of Bell not to inform their ISP clients in advance, but if someone like TekSavvy sells connections via Bell's copper plant, then that third party is subject to whatever rules the local loop provider cares to enforce. The only way around this would be to include very specific language forbidding traffic shaping in their contracts with each other.
Funny, this kind of dispels the age old belief some people have that DSL subscribers are immune from throttling, doesn't it?
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| People on proper DSL providers like TekSavvy WERE NEVER THROTTLED. This is not an OLD age belief like you say but rather the truth. Bell has just screwed these 21000 users of TekSavvy service and many many more that belong to other companies. It's absolutely revolting !
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said by Done_Posting:Funny, this kind of dispels the age old belief some people have that DSL subscribers are immune from throttling, doesn't it? No, it doesn't. What you have here is a large monopoly vendor using government-mandated access provisions to screw it's wholesale customers like most US cable companies screw their retail customers. If anything it should wake up the CRTC.
Unlike your typical cable connection, the DSL is not being throttled. It's the connection between the indie ISP's customers and the ISP, and that's happening much farther upstream than the DSL equipment. The local loop and even the DSLAMs are not part of this fiasco.
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Using Teksavvy as the example, their subscribers had no problems getting adequate bandwidth before Bell started this. If Bell's network was truly congested then people would be seeing slow downs without any throttling because the network had no more capacity. However, this has not happened and the only congestion faced by Teksavvy and other 3rd party ISP customers is that imposed by Bell. |
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You'll learn when all the Canadians start signing up for satellite internet from your country America. At least they still have that option. Throttled internet in Canada is barely faster than dial-up. |
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