OT: Bell Internet Performance Service - Up to 7 Mbps

[JoeHill]

John McGregor wrote: 

> Meng Cheah wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Is anyone using the above and would like to share their experience, both 
> > good and bad?
> > 
> > What is the performance with Bittorrent?
> > 
> > The Bell salesperson first told me that Bell does not do trafficshaping.
> > When pointed out that the issue is before the CRTC, he informed me that 
> > the CRTC forces Bell to trafficshape.
> > Finally, he admitted that Bell trafficshapes because users are using 
> > "excessive" bandwidth(but the cap is 60 GB per month).
> > All this in less than 3 minutes and without embarrassment.
> > I have the impression that if telling me that Obama is the AntiChrist 
> > would clinch my signing up, he would.
> > 
> > Any info will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Meng  
> 
> I regularly get called in by new Sympatico subscribers to sort out the 
> mess left by Bell's own technicians. Wrong passwords and b1 i.d. numbers 
> (issued by Bell) that don't match up with the modem/router or the info 
> they have at the call center are the rule rather than the exception. 
> They are currently issuing a new wireless router/ modem combo. It comes 
> pre-configured with an SSID and in twenty client calls so far I have 
> only encounter three that worked as advertised. Either they don't 
> transmit wirelessly at all or if you try to set up WPA they fail and you 
> have to reset the unit and start over and choose WEP. They will send out 
> a new unit without much argument though and I assume that this means 
> that they are well aware of the problem (but not so much that they will 
> scrap these crappy units altogether). Also there are many areas of the 
> old (pre-amalgamation) city of Toronto where Bell did not adequately 
> upgrade the local loop when they switched from pulse to tone dialing in 
> the 1960's. If you live in one of those areas you will not get anywhere 
> near the speed that Sympatico sells you on. Have a look at this video 
> from CBC's Marketplace for further confirmation of Sympatico's lousy 
> service:
> http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/11/21/speed_bumps/
> 
> If you look closely about half way through the video you will see that 
> the large file that the Marketplace testers are downloading is an Ubuntu 
> iso.

I can't even paly the video. What plugin is it that I need?

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Joe
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