acanac pricing / support / service

[John Miles]

Does anyone know whether the performance of VOIP connections (like Vonage)
are throttled on a DSL connnection also?
(hope I am not straying too far off topic)

John
(resident idiot)
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:08 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:25:57PM -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> I heard a couple of you guys are using acanac, how is the service for
> >> torrents / downloading for you after the trial period?
> >>
> >> I'm thinking of saving like 12 bucks a month myself :)
> >
> > Well based on the recent news of what Bell is doing to the DSL network,
> > the torrent support will probably become very bad real soon.
>
> Apparently, use of any encrypted protocols on the Bell network will
> result in the entire connection being throttled. Rogers, as odious an
> ISP as it is, is not doing deep packet inspection for the time being.
> Now that Bell has jumped first, the field is now clear for Rogers to do
> what Bell is doing so even if you don't care about BitTorrent, I believe
> you will eventually be subjected to reduced service from Rogers if you
> use ssh/scp/sftp/ssl. It is only a matter of time.
>
> Rogers and Bell have an oligopoly and as such, they are behaving
> predictably and rationally. They could not get away with this if there
> were real competition. We need control of the last mile. I have made
> inquiries about dark fiber with the aim of starting a community fiber
> project but I have not found pricing that makes any semblance of sense,
> certainly nothing like the pricing one can find in the U.S., parts of
> Europe, or South Korea. We are going to become a backwater on the
> Internet if Rogers and Bell are allowed unfettered control of the market.
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