is anyone here using acanac.ca with linux ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:34:11PM -0400, Michael Lauzon wrote:
> I was with Rogers, and there was no TS going on, I could download from
> the torrent sites to my hearts content.  The only reason why I left is
> because almost every weekend my connection would drop off the face of
> the earth for about 2 to 3 days.  They even sent a tech at one point
> who stole from me when I was out of the room.

Rogers does traffic shape (and has for at least a couple of years),
although it would appear that they don't do it as agresively as Bell.

> So, how does this MLPPP thing work that I see people mentioning on
> here, do you get it with Teksavvy or is it something you have to do
> yourself?

As far as I understand it, Bell's traffic snooping box is too dumb to
analyze multilink ppp traffic.  It only works with normal ppp traffic,
which is what pppoe has normally been.  Hence since they can't analyze
the traffic, they can't shape it either.

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Len Sorensen
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