OT: Bell Internet Performance Service - Up to 7 Mbps

Matt Price matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun Nov 2 16:30:34 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 20:37 -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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.

i've heard that you cna get around the trafficshaping using
mlppp-enabled routers running e.g. the tomato firmware.  has anyone else
heard this?

matt


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