Tag Archives: throttling

Sep200828

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Plenty of telecom issues but no debate near the election

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 [...]

Sep200803

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Received my reply from Minister of Industry Jim Prentice

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 [...]

Apr200829

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Bell’s throttling demonstrated

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. [...]

Apr200816

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CAIP, TekSavvy, Bell and Throttling

photo credit: mrbill CBC just had two pieces on the throttling fiasco that’s still going on. One was an interview with Bell’s Mirko Bibic by Spark, the other was from The Current. The interview with Nora Young of Spark went over general issues of net neutrality, which is why my questions weren’t asked. My questions [...]

Mar200830

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Bell’s throttling damages a lot more than P2P

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 [...]

Mar200829

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Mailing campaign on Canadian net neutrality

I just realized that neutrality.ca is still updating, but it’s in chronological rather than reverse chronological order. Look at the bottom for new posts. The plan of defense right now appears to be writing to your MP (you can look up the appropriate mailing list based on your postal code) and the Minister of Industry [...]