If any of you have tried visiting Art Of Geek at all today, you may have been met with a nasty error message from your web browser. I just want you to know that your web browser lied to you, the problem was on your end, not ours. OK, just kidding. One [...]
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[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 [...] Tagged: Bell, Bell Sympatico, internet provider, ISP, Networking, Sympatico, throttling, traffic shaping  5 comments [Update 1] Well that couldn’t have gone any smoother. For those that have just tuned in, we switched Internet service providers this morning. I’m happy to report that the migration went smoothly and without issue. I’m actually quite pleasantly surprised that this is the case, since I haven’t had the best of [...] [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 [...] c|net news has posted an article discussing the likelihood that Windows Vista will have a negative impact on the performance of the Internet due to it’s adoption of the IPv6 protocol. “If you adopt Vista, your DNS traffic is going to double,” Mockapetris said in an interview. With many DNS servers already running close to capacity, [...] |
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