Bell Canada Throttling IISPs

[dagibbs]

Well, it is looking like you may not be able to escape Bell's traffic shaping by running to an ISP that re-sells Bell's connection (which, if I understand correctly is basically all of them other than Rogers, which also traffic shapes/throttles).

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-canadian-isps-furious-about-bell-canadas-traffic-throttling.html

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Confirms-Throttling-92973

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080325.wgtinternet26/BNStory/Technology/home/

Comments

[beable]

Jinx!

One of the links I posted also links to some suggested letters people can send to Industry Canada's Competition Bureau.

Snail mail for preference, I should think. Government hats probably take actual snail mail letters more seriously.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was amused at us posting about this at the same time, too.

[beable]

Signs that we are both geeky "check out the news at lunch" types rather than "go out for a walk" types?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a geeky use the computer while home fighting a cold type, but otherwise, yeah.

[bytowneboy.livejournal.com]

Read or die was awesome!

[bytowneboy.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who works in correspondence tracking at the federal level... Every person who writes the government generates about 300-1,5000$ in work hours for civil servants. Generally, e-mail is almost on par with the seriousness of the response. I hesitate to say there is a difference.

[beable]

I will beat ragnhildr in asking if it makes a difference if one writes in crayon.

I suspect that individual e-mails are taken more seriously than the "please sign your name to this online petition" - it's often the petitions I see floating around as part of the e-mail campaigns. It is good to know though.

I wonder if politicians still take letters more seriously or if they have also evolved.

And I love RoD.

[bytowneboy.livejournal.com]

Douchebaggery!