BitTorrent blocking goes north: Canadian ISP (Bell) admits to throttling P2P
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In response to consumer complaints posted in the company's official forum, Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico has admitted that it uses bandwidth throttling technologies to impose limitations on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing during peak hours. This revelation is further evidence that net neutrality—the principle of equal treatment for all traffic through a network—is eroding.
"[W]e are now using a Internet Traffic Management to restrict accounts that are using a large portion of bandwidth during peak hours," a Sympatico forum administrator wrote in response to a user complaint. The forum administrator also provides a list of affected applications, which includes BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, and other widely-used P2P applications. Readers of Broadband Reports had been suspicious for some time that the ISP was throttling traffic.
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto/Sauga, Canada
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Originally posted by El K Dee
what provider and whereabouts???
keep in mind i share the net with 3 others and we all use torrents
He has a program which lets you connect to multiple connects at once. I forget what its called.
So essentially, you can connect to like 10 wireless unencryted connections at once, and he lives in a Condo by Skydome so its easy to connect to dozens at once...
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