OT: Bell Internet Performance Service - Up to 7 Mbps

[Lennart Sorensen]

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?
> 
> 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.

Well Bell performs traffic shapping on the DSL backhaul, so they
certainly are traffic shaping.  I believe they were doing it to their
own customers long before starting to do it to other customers.

Bell Sympatico also has a long history of awful service, billing
screwups (like how to make them stop billing you for service you no
longer have), etc.  And of course they use MSN/hotmail for their mail
service as far as I can tell.

Any other DSL provider is likely to provide better service, better tech
support, better conditions, and lower price, and usually the same speed
too.

I will NEVER have service from Sympatico.

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Len Sorensen
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