OT: Bell Internet Performance Service - Up to 7 Mbps

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 05:28:05PM -0400, Meng Cheah wrote:

> Is anyone using the above and would like to share their experience, both  
> good and bad?

Bell has unspeakable customer service.  If you are going to use DSL, get
it from teksavvy.com - good prices, smart people, real answers.  I am
only a customer, but a very happy one.  There is trafficshaping, and it
is all Bell's fault, there is nothing teksavvy can really do about it.

> What is the performance with Bittorrent?

The primary shaping seems to be between 6pm and 8am, and so you get poor
performance at night - workable speeds, but nothing good (20-40kbps).
During the day it can just up to very high levels (I have seen 500+ kbps).
The shaping is the same with Rogers, but you can never have a server,
whereas with a Bell reseller like teksavvy, you can.
-- 

yours,

William

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