dsl outage?

[JoeHill]

Madison Kelly wrote: 

> Dave Cramer wrote:
> > Well, ultimately all DSL is from bell, so they are all connected.
> > 
> > --dc--
> > On 3-Aug-08, at 1:00 PM, Neil Watson wrote:
> >   
> >> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:53:25PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:  
> >>> Ya, no idea why. Seemed pretty random, too. Some sites were more  
> >>> responsive then others, but nothing worked well. What ISP are you 
> >>> on,  Sympatico?  
> >>
> >> I am with Primus.  My connection was completely down.  
> 
> Indeed, they all go through Bell's concentrator and deep packet analysis 
> machine. Given that Neil's connection is through Primus, and I am going 
> through Interlink (another reseller), it does seem to indicate an issue 
> with Bell.
> 
> During the problem, I checked my sync rate and it was fine, so the 
> problem wasn't the last mile. Also, I run my own, patched DNS servers, 
> so I don't think it was a DNS issue directly unless it was somewhat 
> upstream.
> 
> Given that some sites were better than others and the throttling coming 
> and going, I worry that they were playing with restricting access to 
> specific sites. I found serious trouble accessing some high-bandwidth 
> sites like deviantart.com.
> 
> Madi, who admits to being paranoid about bell's view of net neutrality.

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/31/tech-bell.html

Now they won't just be throttling P2P traffic on competitor's (heh) networks,
they'll be limiting bandwidth across the board, _and_ they're lobbying to have
the independants shut out of Bell CO's altogether because, in Bell's view,
there's 'enough' competition and we don't need any more.

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