Beating Bell Canada’s Throttle Monster
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Bell Canada’s ongoing efforts to screw as much out of its customers as it can, giving back as little as possible, at the same time tying down their accounts with a specious ‘traffic management’ scheme, has made it one of the most despised companies in the land.
Before the Net came along, it could get away with that kind of stuff, but not any more – not when people can talk with each other wherever they are, and whenever they feel like it, passing on info and data.
Matt Haughey’s MetaFilter is a blog, “anyone can contribute a link or a comment to”.
On January 17, Circumvention of Bell’s Throttle Monster: three alternatives showed up as a heading.
Posted by tybeet, “On November 20th, the CTRC made a landmark ruling that defeated the CAIP’s plea to stop Bell’s conjuration of the Deep Packet Throttle Monster,” it says, continuing »»»
However all was not lost, as consumers of Bell’s copper pipes can take solace in three recent developments that aim to reclaim the pipes for We, the little guy. hooray!
Then, “What is currently known about how to beat the beast” »»»
- In a letter from research organization PerVices to the CTRC, details surfaced as to how to bypass the throttle, and have been put into concise instructions, with many users reporting success.
- Developers of the uTorrent/BitTorrent clients have been, in the interim, working on a vast changeover in the way Torrenting operates: by switching the protocol from primarily TCP to entirely UDP (called UDP Torrent Protocol or uTP) which in effect evades the traffic-shaping process entirely. With this, manysuccess stories abound. (You can download a copy of uTorrent 1.9a here)
- Finally, and as perhaps the most intensive last-ditch effort, users can obtain a router capable of being flashed with the Linux-based, modified “Tomato” firmware which uses the MLPPP protocol in order to circumvent the deep-packet inspection process. (note: you don’t actually need to run Linux to use it, and also note: your ISP must support MLPPP).
Thanks, tybeet. 
As always, stay tuned.
JN
January , 2009
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January 19th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
as I have stated in the past, file sharing geeks will always find a way around any and every new ‘attempt’ to rout us out. At the moment data went digital, it was shared, and shared, and shared, and shared, and shared, and shared.
Thanks, tybeet.
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