Bell, get your grubby hands off my ISPs bandwidth! [Update 2]

By madgunde, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 4:06 pm

[Update 2] We’ve known for a while now that major ISPs in Canada have been utilizing traffic shaping technology to throttle the transfer speeds of certain types of traffic. Rogers Hi-Speed and Bell Sympatico customers who use Bittorrent to transfer files know all too well. It’s for this reason that some consumers have [...]


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Switching ISPs: Good-bye, Bell Sympatico. Hello TekSavvy! [Update 1]

By madgunde, on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 4:58 pm

[Update 1] We Canadians put up with a lot of abuse from our telecom/internet providers. As if high prices and poor customer service weren’t enough to endure, we’ve also put up with data transfer caps on supposedly “unlimited” internet connections and now our supposedly high-speed internet connections are only high speed for some types [...]


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