Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers

[JoeHill]

George Nicol left a post-it on the fridge:

> 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." 

I knew it!! A few months back, Sympatico began throttling bittorrent. So, I
enabled RC4 encryption, problem solved. Then a month ago, even with encryption,
I could not run bittorrent without the whole connection coming to a dead halt.
At the same time, my wife's VPN connection to her office became totally
unuseable. I began to think that, if I were Sympatico and I was hunting this
stuff down, I would just blacklist all encrypted traffic, which would also
affect the VPN.

Now I'm with Teksavvy, and I'm happy. I wish I was closer to the CO, or that
my neighbourhood had fiber right to the door, but I'm happy.

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