Comments on: Bell Canada hands Net Neutrality advocates a gift!

By: Northpal

Northpal — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:38:28 +0000

New World Order is slowly moving everyone to internet 2. This will totally control all information moving over the internet. Throttling issues, limited bandwidth, antiquated infrastructure, is the problems they have created.
The solution they have is already built, with tax payer money I might add. Internet 2 will be total censorship as well as controlling your private information, but you will be able to download mind numbing entertainment with ease. Wake up!

By: KitKat

KitKat — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:48:49 +0000

So, let me get this straight; the Canadian consumer is taking orders concerning what they can and can’t download from a company that hires an Associate Director of Media Relations who takes pictures of himself wearing a parrots butt as a headdress? Controlling the internet is wrong, letting these guys control it is just stupid.
Take action.

By: RoOmIE

RoOmIE — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:52:58 +0000

you can make a plaint to the executive office at bell here is the phone number

the more plaints they get the more likely they will remove this crap

Sacha Rollin 1-866-701-004

executive.office@bell.ca

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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:19:28 +0000

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By: Candace

Candace — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:46:36 +0000

I’ve been a very happy teksavvy customer for years and am absolutely thrilled to support them now. I started out with them because they were local and a good deal compared to what else was available then. I stay because the customer service is great and so is my connection.

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By: John Loshen

John Loshen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:07:43 +0000

Well, it was only a matter of time, after all just last month the Japanese were presenting their findings on overall Internet traffic and announced that the 4 main ISP’s had throttled P2P traffic and there are similar proposals being floated around in the UK and France…

In Canada there is No Doubt that the carriers have been overselling their bandwidth for a long time and I agree that this needs to be addressed. CRTC???

Legitimate file sharing traffic using Peer 2 Peer does exist and one great example is a Canadian start-up, 2Peer.com. Their premise is the “Private Internet”, it may sound a bit hokey but I have to say I am a big fan. I can share our personal photos and videos with my friends and family and don’t have to waste time uploading and sharing from a third party site.

With 2Peer I can share privately from my computer with people I authorize utilizing a peer to peer framework. This way I don’t have to worry about pedophiles, stalkers, and so on looking at my personal family pictures or videos. Just look at the invasion of privacy issues with Facebook and MySpace in the past couple months…

So I guess I should be getting my refund cheque in the mail since my bandwidth is going to be throttled because I use software that is P2P based. Nothing like hindering a Canadian start-up at the same time, way to go Bell!

Lesson learned from Jason Laszlo is that you may want to check out your privacy settings before you make comments in a open world or get a service that is private like 2Peer.com.

By: Mark Kuznicki

Mark Kuznicki — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:12:13 +0000

Rohan/Patrick, here is a diagram showing what’s being throttled and where: http://tinyurl.com/2xlu37

Time to mobilize!

By: Patrick Dinnen

Patrick Dinnen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:48:50 +0000

Rohan – someone who knows the tech better may correct me here. As I understand it Teksavvy rents the copper connection to the homes of their DSL customers from Bell, as they’re the only people who own copper. So although Teksavvy do run all of their backbone traffic over non-Bell operators there is still a part of the network that Bell controls and that’s where the unwanted P2P throttling is taking place.

By: Rohan Jayasekera

Rohan Jayasekera — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:54:06 +0000

I’m confused. Unless I’ve missed something, TekSavvy’s website lists DSL services (both residential and business) only over non-Bell network operators. Yet Bell throttling is an issue. Can someone knowledgeable explain how all this stuff works? Thanks!