DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
join:2009-06-15
START&Cogeco
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3 edits | reply to Shada
Re: bypassing torrent throttling? .
At least until the evil overlord BELL chooses and implements a way to selectively throttle the MLPPP users here and at a few other DSL ISPs who share part of their network, as does TSI.
AFAIK, Bell of course does not offer MLPPP to their direct subscribers such as Sympatico customers.
MLPPP itself was originally intended for combining two or more DSL enabled phone lines into one FAT FAST virtual line.
The throttle beating effect was just a bonus, and TSI themselves will admit that things could change.
After all, this IS Bell we're talking about....
BTW, does TBIT stand for Tim Bit ? (inside joke here)  |
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| So, what is it intended for now then? |
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| said by bbiab:So, what is it intended for now then? Re-read the following part of the message to which you responded:
said by Davesnothere:. MLPPP itself was originally intended for combining two or more DSL enabled phone lines into one FAT FAST virtual line. |
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 l0thar
join:2005-12-29
Far Far Away
kudos:1 | reply to Davesnothere
Dave, you are right on.
Bell could develop the sniffing capability to identify p2p traffic headers inside a mlppp stream. Then their fscked DPI machines could do their lame and obscene manipulation in the data to slow it down, like they do to regular ppp connections.
It's unfortunate that BCE has chosen this path of minimizing investment, drop customer and technical support to the bare minimum, and generally nickel and dime their customers (including us, third party wholesaler dsl clients).
I would bet they HATE the idea of bonding two or more lines together (without even mlppp involved) - that allows people to get 10 to 12 Mb/s synch, 1.6 Mb/s upload, and a 400 GB a month or larger monthly bandwidth, depending on who they got their service from.
This at a much lower cost, with much less restrictions than Bell's own ADSL+ 10 Mb/s or higher services. |
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