OT: Bell reveals internet throttling details to CRTC

[Andrej Marjan]

On July 21, 2009 10:26:00 am Madison Kelly wrote:

> I've been noticing lately (last couple weeks) that at night, nothing in
> an ssh tunnel works. Or rather, when it does, I am lucky to get 2kbps.
> scp, rsync, sftp... all fail. Come morning though, it's fine.
>
> There is throttling and then there is shutting off. The most maddening
> is that I am not even a Bell customer. Our ISP though is in the dark as
> much as out customers are though.

Forgive the stupid question, but is it possible to get DSL service that 
doesn't run through Bell systems?

I'm on Rogers and while it works well enough technically, I've been subjected 
to business practices that are... probably illegal, and I'm looking for an 
alternative.

However I've heard from a number of people with different DSL ISPs that 
arbitrary encrypted connections get killed, as you've described.

So is there a third option -- neither Rogers, nor someone that Bell can 
sabotage?

Thanks.
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