Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
 ·Colbanet
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Not going to last...
While they may have decided to whitelist port 80 to avoid compatibility issues, they DO use deep packet inspection, so this isn't a permanent workaround.
Using a VPN to tunnel your traffic is. They can't throttle VPNs because of business users, and they can't apply different throttling to business users because that would give people legitimate anti-competition complaints (Bell throttles TekSavvy's business customers but not their own).
Downside? You need a remote box. Upside? You can find a decent VPS for half the cost of your DSL line. |
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warthunder2k
join:2002-04-20
canada | Then again, rogers throttles all the encrypted traffic, so they may do the same |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
·Colbanet
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Rogers doesn't throttle their wholesalers, and so doesn't have to worry about anticompetition claims. Bell does.
Bell currently throttles PPPoE business customers of both themselves and wholesalers. They can do this because they equally throttle both. While they CAN identify their own business customers based on the different logon domain, they can't identify a wholesaler's business customer like that.
As such, it's extremely unlikely that they'd try to apply different throttling to business customers (who need VPNs) than to residential customers. |
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