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http://www.thestar.com/business/article/540321
I have to say here, even as an IT guy who considers himself fairly security- and performance-savvy, that this is BAD for the Internet and all of its users.
All this basically means is that Bell can keep overselling their backbone bandwidth capacity and whenever things get tight, they can single out a bunch of users and throttle their downloads. If I pay for a certain class of service, I expect to receive a certain class of service.
Now, thanks to the CRTC, one of the biggest back-end resellers in Canada can throttle my traffic (at work, anyways) if they so choose, without warning.
I don't know about some of you guys, but a lot of companies are moving to electronic distribution of installation media (Microsoft and McAfee come to mind immediately) and having this kind of ruling can sorely limit your access to software that you've legally paid for.
Downloading the latest Server 2008 images at 4+ GB each? Wait a while. The latest McAfee EPO server? Wait a while more. Do I care? Sure, cause even though I'm getting paid regardless, it's delaying the completion of each project. That doesn't make the bigwigs happy.
Hopefully this wasn't the final step to deal with this issue. If it was, it sets one hell of an ugly precedent as more types of traffic, users and consumption patterns will ultimately start triggering Bell's throttling tactics.
I have to say here, even as an IT guy who considers himself fairly security- and performance-savvy, that this is BAD for the Internet and all of its users.
All this basically means is that Bell can keep overselling their backbone bandwidth capacity and whenever things get tight, they can single out a bunch of users and throttle their downloads. If I pay for a certain class of service, I expect to receive a certain class of service.
Now, thanks to the CRTC, one of the biggest back-end resellers in Canada can throttle my traffic (at work, anyways) if they so choose, without warning.
I don't know about some of you guys, but a lot of companies are moving to electronic distribution of installation media (Microsoft and McAfee come to mind immediately) and having this kind of ruling can sorely limit your access to software that you've legally paid for.
Downloading the latest Server 2008 images at 4+ GB each? Wait a while. The latest McAfee EPO server? Wait a while more. Do I care? Sure, cause even though I'm getting paid regardless, it's delaying the completion of each project. That doesn't make the bigwigs happy.
Hopefully this wasn't the final step to deal with this issue. If it was, it sets one hell of an ugly precedent as more types of traffic, users and consumption patterns will ultimately start triggering Bell's throttling tactics.
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.