photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives The CBC has managed to round up most of the telecom issues in one post about the election. Among them are the new fees for incoming SMS messages, throttling of third party DSL ISPs, and the lack of competition on the wireless front. The last good point that they made [...]
I’m surprised this letter took so long to get out. Essentially, Mr. Prentice thinks that the CRTC will deal with it, and complaints ought to be directed to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services or the CRTC itself. There’s no mention of either of the net neutrality bills. The letter follows: Thank you for [...]
Earlier today I decided to run an experiment to see whether or not I was throttled. Long story short, I am. I saw on the DSLReports forums that Glasnost was probably not the best way for me to test since it primarily checks for RST packets. That is, it checks for blocking rather than throttling. [...]
On a larf I decided to violate a contract I’m a party to. Yes, I know, I’m such a rebel. Today I decided to listen to internet radio on my cell phone. I’m on Bell’s $7 unlimited browsing plan. The Terms of Service clearly state that streaming audio is not allowed. It’s one of those [...]
I just discovered that TekSavvy has posted mrtg graphs of traffic before and after throttling. I notice that proportions between types of traffic are about the same, except P2P is a little bit smaller than before. What’s staggering is although proportions wind up being the same, overall traffic is down from 160 megabit to 40 [...]
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