Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers

George Nicol gnicol-PeCUgM4zDv73fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Tue May 29 21:25:10 UTC 2007


James Knott wrote:

> Now you again say "block".  What is blocked, other than port 25?

Today, Port 25.  Tomorrow... whatever they choose.  Their record speaks
for itself.  What speaks loudest is the Rogers TOS.  Read it and weep.

> What throttle are you referring to?

"For the past 18 months, it has been an open secret that Rogers engages
in packet shaping ... for certain services such as peer-to-peer file
sharing applications.  ROGERS DENIED THE PRACTICE AT FIRST, but
effectively acknowledged it in late 2005.  Net neutrality advocates
regularly point to traffic shaping as a concern since they fear that
Rogers could limit bandwidth to competing content or services.  In
response to the packet shaping approach, many file sharing applications
now employ encryption to make it difficult to detect the contents of
data packets.  This has led to a technical "cat and mouse" game, with
ROGERS NOW ONE OF THE ONLY ISPs IN THE WORLD TO SIMPLY DEGRADE ENCRYPTED
TRAFFIC." - Michael Geist [emphasis mine]
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1859/

"Rogers Has Resumed Throttling P2P with a VENGEANCE" posted by the Forum
Moderator on February 10, 2007, at RBUA:
http://www.rbua.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5677

> There was some mention of one in the paper a couple of weeks ago
> and Rogers said it didn't happen

Business as usual for both Rogers and Sympatico.  Denial by default.

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