Defeating Bell's 'Traffic Management'

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Meng Cheah <meng-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> JoeHill wrote:
>>
>> I had assumed that using this MLPPP was only for people with 2 or more DSL
>> lines, but someone at work tipped me off that he had gotten around it with
>> just
>> one, using the Tomato/MLPPP firmware for his Linksys router. If you're
>> using
>> the WRT54G or GL/GS, this firmware works great and was a breeze to set up.
>>
>> Start here:
>>
>> http://fixppp.org
>>
>> For me it was like this:
>>
>> 1. Reset router to factory.
>>
>> 2. Upload firmware file for my router.
>>
>> 3. Log in using 'admin' for user and pass.
>>
>> 4. Configure router.
>>
>> I like the new interface a lot better, even without the joy of screwing
>> with Bell.  :-)
>>
>> One thing I could not find was a good explanation on exactly how this
>> defeats
>> throttling...
>>
>
> Any improvement?

Yes, definitely. If I've got a lot of seeds, then the download is
always fast, no matter what time of day.

> Do you recommend this?

Yes, even without defeating the throttling, the Tomato firmware is an
improvement.

> I don't know how this works.
> Sure would like an explanation and some data, if available :-)

That I do not have. I am curious myself as to exactly how it works. My
limited understanding is that Multilink splits your data into two
streams, and since Bell can only inspect one stream at a time, they
cannot tell what's going on with either one.


B. (aka Joe)
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