Throttling and SafeVPN

[Tyler]

William Muriithi wrote:
> You are missing the point. What is happening is there are a lot of ISP
> assuming that any encrypted traffic is torrent. So irrespective what
> port you choose to use, as long as your traffic is encrypted - and
> equipments like packeteer will easily flag this - your traffic will be
> shaped.
>
> Sad affair as most critical data are actually encrypted, but I guess
> they have done their math and assumed its safe even with that
> collateral damage involved.
Well, that's the thing--  residential users shouldn't have critical data 
-- however, with Teksavvy, I'm finally _allowed_ to run servers.

Bell is getting around disrupting VPNs and regular business traffic by 
relaxing the shaping during business hours, however, I've still managed 
to clock an average of 25 seconds/message to receive TLS-encrypted email 
from remote servers after about 4pm.  That's disgusting.

Being a big user of encryption, this Bell shaping is very painful...  
TLS over SMTP, IMAPS, HTTPS, SSH, FreeNX over SSH, SCP, SFTP, OpenVPN, 
and occasionally proxying to squid over SSH, etc, all encrypted.  With 
the exception of most web surfing, almost everything I do is encrypted 
and therefore throttled... meaning my 5mbits connection is now about 
30kB/s between 4pm and sometime in the morning.


Tyler
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