OT: Bell reveals internet throttling details to CRTC

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:48:01PM -0400, Michael Lauzon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:32, meng<meng-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Len Katz, the CRTC's vice-chair of telecommunications, asked about Bell's throttled speeds.
> >
> > Daniels said peer-to-peer file transfers are reduced to a speed of 256 kilobits per second between 6 p.m. and 1 a.m. in Ontario and Quebec. That is a 98.5 per cent reduction from the maximum advertised speed of 16 megabits per second that Bell uses to sell its Internet Max 16 service.
> >
> > Between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. and between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., the company slows downloads to 512 kilobits per second. Daniels added that the numbers would be posted on its website soon.
> >
> >
> > http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/14/crtc-bell-internet-traffic-management-providers-custom
> 
> Why wouldn't they open the speeds faster overnight instead of slowing
> them down, of course it's Bell and they are stupid!

It looked to me as:

16:30 - 18:00: 512kbps
18:00 - 01:00: 256kbps
01:00 - 02:00: 512kbps
02:00 - 16:30: no limit specified

Did you get something else from it?

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