google weighs in on bell throttling

[James Knott]

Andrej Marjan wrote:
> On July 8, 2008 02:10:13 pm JoeHill wrote:
>   
>> Dave Cramer wrote:
>>     
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/07/tech-crtc.html
>>>       
>> This bit raised my eyebrows:
>>
>> Rogers, which also slows peer-to-peer applications, disputed claims by CAIP
>> that such throttling affects services such as voice over internet protocol
>> (VoIP) and virtual private networks (VPN).
>>
>> "This equipment, therefore, does not impact any other traffic such as VoIP,
>> VPN and other online streaming applications because their signatures are
>> different," wrote Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory
>> affairs for Rogers. "There is therefore no reason why VPN or other
>> encrypted traffic would be affected."
>>
>> Anyone on Rogers network care to comment on this?
>>     
>
> I regularly transfer SSH up from my home network at my full upstream bandwidth 
> and download at about 200KB/s. 
>
> At the same time, there is definitely BitTorrent throttling in my 
> neighbourhood.
>
> Frankly, it's not surprising that Rogers is doing this much better than Bell. 
> In my experience, Bell is an embodiment of incompetence and belligerent 
> disdain for their customers. Sometimes it feels like Bell reps go out of 
> their way to provide poor service.
>   

Having dealt with both Rogers and Sympatico, I have to agree.  Rogers 
provides much better service.  The Sympatico "help" desk all but begs 
customers to take their business elsewhere.



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