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Re: Cogeco Bandwidth Throttling --MUST READ--
OK... you quoted a post of mine which confused the issue somewhat.
The assertion was that it's possible a provider of Cogeco's transit is throttling them, I pointed out that would be ridiculous as transit providers make their cash selling bandwidth.
I'm aware of how the model would work from Cogeco's point of view which is why I would say it's far more likely that the ISP with relatively limited upstream bandwidth and a financial reason to thottle it is far more likely to be doing so than the transit provider who makes more money the more bandwidth is used and whose bandwidth is symettrical. I have had the pleasure of configuring equipment to throttle bandwidth for an ISP 
I'm not sure you do know what IP transit is as the phrase 'I don't know if Cogeco has their own Link to the net or buys off of someone else.' says you don't.
Bell Canada are a tier 1 ISP, Cogeco are not. Cogeco are likely to pay someone like Bell to supply connectivity to the internet. Bell Canada's wholesale service, Cogent, etc, make their money selling bandwidth, someone has to pay. Only way to avoid paying for transit is to have settlement free peering to every single AS on the internet.
You might be interested to know that one of Cogeco's providers is also one of Teksavvy's, Cogent.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_transit will give you a clearer image of what IP Transit is. |
