Comments on: Bell download throttling: update

By: XRumerTest

XRumerTest — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:40:56 +0000

Hello. And Bye.

By: A Teksavvy customer

A Teksavvy customer — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:06:40 +0000

Here is a copypasta from the e-mail sent to all Teksavvy customers:

Dear Customers,
As many of you may have heard of late, there have been quite a few
activities through Bell that have caused some negative performance on P2P
and BT traffic for us and all other DSL providers in Ontario and Québec.
TekSavvy is committed to fighting this injustice.
For more details on this matter, go to:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy for various discussions.

In trying to bring a little bit of both humour and fun to this stressful
week, we sat down and came up with a fun event to hold/get us through this
challenging time!
We’ll be setting up a gaming server to be ready for Saturday morning.

Saturday and Sunday will be practice time only, BUT, as of Monday, March
31st, 9AM, until Sunday, April 6th, 5PM, we will hold a TF2 gamers
Challenge!
Lets call it, as a first competition, “Throttle This! Battle at the Big
Barn!”.

Rules and such are going to follow but, it will be for TSI DSL customers
only and the winner at the end of the week will receive $1,000 for kicking
A$$!
More to come on this…

To follow activities, rules and gaming details, go to
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20242138-Battle-at-the-Big-Barn

Regards,
Rocky

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:42:14 +0000

I can’t resist after Russel’s comment

“The internet is not a big truck .. it’s a series of tubes”

And yeh Bell, Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw, all bad, and not just recently. At least canada has secondary DSL providers. secondary cable providers would be good too for those out of the “DSL zone”

By: Look out Canada

Look out Canada — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:18:38 +0000

Its all an American plot to take over your commie left wing country

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:02:51 +0000

Heh Tbear did you get paid for that or are you stupid in addition to being an ass?

By: Jude

Jude — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:07:04 +0000

Bell has once again shown it’s true colors, it is a selfish, greedy monster that surely lies, cheats, steals form it’s customers to overcome it’s visible poor managemment of internet services, for Bell on it’s own is non competetive..

By: Tbear

Tbear — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:45:47 +0000

Waaah waahh waahh … I am a poor little money sucking subscriber that expects that the world is free and we owe it to you to continue… With no respect or effort, it is a right…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:17:57 +0000

So are there any good reliable alternatives to the larger ISPs???

I was looking up Acanac… they look like a bargain, but I don’t know anyone that can vouch for their service.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:13:44 +0000

Keep complaining to the respective places people.

We’ve got to fight this!

Need to keep TekSavvy an awesome company!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:42:46 +0000

“The controversial practice, called traffic shaping, is meant to stop illegal downloading through BitTorrent.”

Bullshit. It’s about one thing: Paying for bandwidth. These telecom companies don’t give a shit about what’s ethical and what isn’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:33:49 +0000

this month I was a more generous peer
650:25 96370 MB 69127 MB/27243 MB

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:29:19 +0000

thats hours, total, up, down, connections

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:28:33 +0000

60 to 90 gigs?! OMFG
how can someone survive with such a low amount?
my router counted last month:
695:20 225897 MB 100182 MB/125715 MB 37

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:32:24 +0000

Forget Bell, as well as Rogers. Leave them, they are a good ISP if you are grannypants that checks her e-mail and reads horoscopes. Otherwise, they suck!

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:01:41 +0000

These idiots are getting away with whatever they want, I just got a notice from rogers that they are limiting their customers to 60gig or 90gigs (depending on which highspeed you have) of traffic per month. Between that and network fee’s its now getting retarded.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:30:24 +0000

ISPs around the world refuse to admit that file sharing is now in the vernacular of internet usage. Rather than embrace this technology, they are trying to restrict it’s adoption by suggesting only a minority use it. This specious rhetoric is fast becoming trite; And is driven by their antipathy for infrastructural investment.

We only have to look to the south Korean or Japanese paradigm; they recognise the importance of continual growth and investment in technology. Our ISPs pale in comparison.

By: TTFD

TTFD — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:32:16 +0000

I work for a video game publisher in Toronto, we distribute our demos and patches through Bit Torrent, completely valid uses, yet we’re hampered by the ‘blazing’ fast speeds of the major ISPs….what a tragic waste of technology

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:32:09 +0000

If people are pissed with Bell and their throttling they should be voicing their concerns. Call customer service, write to Bell, the CRTC, their MP, their MPP, join a facebook group, post on internet forums. Transfer your services - tell them why; maybe the 3rd party ISPs are throttled but at least they aren’t Bell. We need to come together and quit being so passive with Bell, Rogers and this whole throttling business.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:09:03 +0000

I have Cogeco and my combined Download and Upload is limited to 60 gigabytes per month for Standard service. I checked Rogers and Bell Sympatico who, interestingly enough, have the exact same limitation.

Realistically, I do not have a huge issue with a limit on how much “Bandwidth” as 60 gb is almost reasonable.

I do however, have an issue with an effort by these companies to manipulate with what we download.

What really is going on here is that these large companies (Bell, Rogers and Cogeco) want people to purchase Cable TV or Satelite TV to watch the shows and movies.

I for one do not want the TV services that they offer, just an unimpeded Interent connection and I can live with the 60 gb limit.

By: Rita Nikas

Rita Nikas — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:53:41 +0000

I’m sure glad that Shaw doesn’t throttle … yet. I’m getting over 600kB/s for Next Great Prime Minister.

I’m pretty sure that Shaw will follow Bell and Rogers soon enough though.

Alas.