is anyone here using acanac.ca with linux ?

[Michael Lauzon]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:58, Giles Orr<gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 2009/6/29 E K <ekg_ab-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>:
> I'm also interested in Acanac's statement (http://acanac.ca/DSL.html):
>
> "No Blocked Ports or Traffic Shapping" [sic]
>
> They're still using Bell's lines, and Bell still does traffic shaping,
> right?  They can't prevent that, which means any claim of "no traffic
> shaping" is a bit disingenuous.  If your upstream provider does it,
> just because you don't doesn't mean it's not happening.
>
> Or maybe they're telling the truth: since no one knows what "shapping"
> is they can say with some surety that they're not doing it.
>


I think for every other company who uses Bell's DSL for their
subscriber base traffic shaping is done at the server level at Bell,
but for people who use Bell DSL directly from Bell it appears the
blocked ports at least are somehow being blocked through the modem.

-- 
Sincerely,

Michael Lauzon
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