Acanac...?

[Erik (Caneris)]

Madison wrote:
> I don't know about acanac.ca, but we (small local ISP who resell's 
> Bell's DSL) have looked at ways to get around their bandwidth capping 
> with minimal success. They seem to throttle what they don't like at 
> their central concentrator(s) before we get it. If Acanac has found a 
> way around this, power to them!
> 
It's actually pretty straight-forward. We (Caneris) have bypassed Bell's throttling using both MLPPP and SSH tunnels. I imagine MPPE would probably work too, but it's a real PITA for us to re-config our LNSs, RADIUS, prov, tools, and everything else to completely support MPPE. 

Bell throttles on the egress from the BASs, using equipment from Arbor Networks (formerly Ellacoya), which does DPI.


> There seems to be some confusion on this term. As *I* 
> understand it, a 
> "Dry Loop" is a phone line with no voltage and a "Wet Loop" is a line 
> with voltage but no dial tone. Bell refers to lines /with/ voltage as 
> Dry Loops though, so I guess the terms are muddy now.
> 
The term is a bit muddy, but usually in the context of DSL it's taken to mean "no active voice service" rather than "no voltage" or "no dial tone". Nearly all "dry loops" actually have a dial tone and techs are able to call ANAC just like on regular loops.

Erik
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