OT: Bell reveals internet throttling details to CRTC

[JoeHill]

Madison Kelly wrote: 

> Mel Wilson wrote:
> > Andrej Marjan wrote:
> > [ ... ]  
> >> 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?  
> > 
> > I know of nothing, short of reinventing FidoNet with our wireless routers.
> > 
> >     Mel.  
> 
> Well, that was the idea of mesh networking.
> 
> The problem though is that for 95% of people, the shaping means nothing. 
> They don't care, and they see no reason to worry about it, if they think 
> of it at all.
> 
> Of the last 5% of us who do care, our numbers are too small to do 
> anything about it at this time. We could get into an arms race of 
> sorts... We come up with ways to bypass their filters, they lock things 
> down more (my theory on the SSH tunnels), but at the end of the day 
> nothing gets fixed.
> 
> The problem is the bandwidth needed to compete with cable/DSL while at 
> the same time being able to afford the infrastructure when the cost is 
> borne by a fairly small group. As of today, I don't see a capable 
> technology.
> 
> My only hope is that these restrictions will continue to press enough 
> that eventuall, Internet delivery will have it's own "Linux/FOSS" moment 
> and someone smarter than me will come up with that new, magical delivery 
> method that finally works around the big telco's.

MLPPP is working fine for me. No throttling here. :-)
 
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J
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