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4 edits | Let's understand how DSL works.... Here's how DSL works.
The copper telephone wire that goes from your home to the phone office has much more capacity then just the 300-3000 Hz voice service it was originally installed to carry. Therefore, the telcos use that excess capacity to make extra money. Instead of connecting directly to the phone switch, lines whose customers have bought DSL instead connect to a DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer) that's located in the Central office. This is the device that allows the sharing of the line for both Internet and voice.
The DSLAM has multiple inputs and outputs. One output connects to the phone switch that provides the basic phone service. The other (data) ones are connected to either the ISP owned by the telco or a competitive one. From each Central office data lines connect to the NOC of the Internet provider. THIS is where the DSL line(s) get(s) 'filled' with Internet.-at the ISP's Network Operations Center. It's also usually where their web, mail and news servers are located.
In effect, the Independent ISP "rents" the excess capacity of the subscriber's line from the incumbent telco.
How does it get filled? The ISP buys wholesale Internet from a larger provider wholesale, breaks it up and then
sells it at retail. It's really no different then a supermarket buying beef by the side and then butchering it up to sell as steaks, chops, etc. at retail.
Obviously, Teksavvy is (also) buying their wholesale Internet from Bell Canada. They probably buy it as fiber with multiple 150 mbit/s connections. It's THESE "big pipe" connections that are being throttled-NOT the ones that run to each house! To me this is a VERY big deal! In some ways its like your electrical power being browned out each evening. You're paying for 120 volts, but on their own (and without telling anyone) the electric company has reduced your voltage to 105 volts-hoping that you won't notice that your lights aren't quite as bright as before.
So, you can see that this has NOTHING to do with the connection between the phone office and your home. It has to do with the throttling of the BIG PIPES that the ISP relies upon to fill the smaller DSL ones.
The way I see it, Bell Canada has the complete right to screw their retail DSL customers any way they choose to. After all, the customers have the right to go to another provider. In this case, however they are cheating a wholesale customer of the bandwidth they have contracted (and paid) for. I'm sure that Bell Canada is violating a committed data rate clause ("CDR clause")-even T1 lines have these where some minimum bandwidth is guaranteed. Bigger lines surely have them as well. Even worse, Bell Canada is screwing with another company's 'process'-how is this any different then Pepsi putting acid into Coke's bottles at the processing plant?
Bell Canada is on VERY shaky ground here! They have most certainly violated a CDR guarantee and even worse done it to put their direct competition at a competitive disadvantage to them. | |
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| said by qworster:In some ways its like your electrical power being browned out each evening. You're paying for 120 volts, but on their own (and without telling anyone) the electric company has reduced your voltage to 105 volts-hoping that you won't notice that your lights aren't quite as bright as before. In Bell's case they throttle 300kB/s to 600kB/s lines down to 30kB/s, i.e. by 90% to 95%, they do it only for selected applications like P2P and they do it from 5pm to 2am. So to carry the analogy it would be like a power company that "throttles" the voltage from 120VAC down to 5VAC or 10VAC but only to your TV set and only during prime time. As for hoping that you will not notice, Bell is too arrogant to care whether or not you do. | |
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