I was offered this xbox ellite deal which against my better judgment I went for. I asked them all the particulars and I was actually lied too. I asked about a cap t hey told me that they don't cap for that bundle. They also told me the 360 ellite was supposed to be repaired from them.

Trying to get the console fixxed they sent me this terms of service thing that mentions they don't service the console and then I found out that the little buggers capped me. I even had a chat transcript showing how over live chat they told me there was no cap they held me to there stupid contract even though I was downright lied too.

Then the other day even though I never changed surfing habits seen a overage charge for 40 frigging dollars when there is no way I even used 60GB. If I went over it shows how lame and unreasonable there cap is.

They also black listed me one month saying I had P2P traffic when I have a legit game that uses P2P for online it has nothing to do with downloading music for free. But they still called me a dirty filthy pirate just the same.

Their throttling has already convinced me to move forever to a different ISP when I'm done university.

Bell -> keep this up, and you'll REALLY push away our generation. Our payed bandwidth is OUR turf. If you can't provide it, YOU are shit.

Radioactif also provides unlimited cable internet but it’s twice as expensive (the same-priced package of the cable company has a 100GB limit). They told me that Videotron does not throttle bittorrent yet.

I might switch soon.

It’s amazing that when Microsoft tries to add features to their O/S, everyone and their cousin gets in line to sue them. But when large ISPs cut services that we are paying for no one does a damn thing about it.

This is typical of Bell. For Example, with Bell Mobility, you can’t use your own MP3 for your ringtones, you have to buy theirs. Or you can’t use Google Maps or other Maps program that support GPS location in you phone, the GPS is inaccessible by the program. Unless you pay 5$/month for theirs, when you could have for free something much better.

And right now we the customer don’t have any alternative for an ISP. The best there was were 3rd party ISP, like tekksavy. But right now they aren’t worth it. And Cable?? They are even worse than Bell (WOW 20Gb per month download, yes your the fastest but also more expensive).

Well we Canadian will just go back to dial-up instead, or go back to the Dark Age instead. Maybe a new Smoke Signal IP Protocol will do the trick?

Just a trick, Bell doesn’t throttle Usenet traffic!!! Yet…

and the world is run by hypocritical corporations.

Sorry but I want to believe this article but right now I don’t, as if this was true bittorrent would be suing them for damages, as would customers for not providing a service they signed up for.”

Haven’t you been reading the newspapers and blogs lately? Bittorrent HAS been going after these companies for this, in courts and in the lawmaking houses of different countries.
I can believe that Bell is doing this, a lot of OTHER companies are doing this as well and getting smacked for it in the United States and abroad.

ATM -> IP -> TCP/UDP -> P2P

Bell are just the Telco controlling the hardware that interfaces subscribers with the actual Internet Service Providers. They don’t do Internet:

You -> Bell -> ISP -> Internet

ISP here could be, for instance, ‘Sympatico’ which is Bell’s own Internet Service Provider subsidiary company, or a ‘third-party’ ISP like Teksavvy, who purchase access to Bell’s telecom infrastructure… the so-called ‘last mile’ connection that brings together subscribers with distant ISPs.

You -> Bell -> Sympatico -> Internet
You -> Bell -> Teksavvy -> Internet

So what you’ve got here is Bell, as the man-in-the-middle CARRIER service, introducing deep-packet inspection (DPI) hardware into its network in order to break open ATM data streams to look deep inside the various layers for the identification of IP, sub-protocols TCP/UDP, for identification of peer-to-peer protocols. This is akin to a postal service, whose job is to simply transport packages from A to B, actually opening and examining the contents of each package specifically for the identification, and further classification, of its content. Once the company can identify the content, it can control the content, as it can enact whatever rules it likes on it.

This is much more than typical ISP traffic-shaping, much more.

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IMO fans of peer-to-peer protocols, in particular BitTorrent, should be concerned at this point because, really, all that’s largely required to squeeze file-sharing out (significantly) at this moment in time is the implementation of DPI hardware into data networks such as Bell has done here. Now as it happens at the moment Bell are not playing that badly; they’re only limiting peer-to-peer traffic to >30KB/s during peak hours. They could, however, choose to really hammer file-sharing down via the implementation of a much-more strict policy if they want to.

Good luck getting around this if it happens (for the vast majority at least).

What’s worse, in most areas their 5mbit service doesn’t run 5mbit because of line quality issues, so upgrading to this 7mbit service gives you no speed up – only a big bandwidth charge at the end of the month.

First and foremost, don’t fall for the scam – you can’t get the unlimited 5mbit service back once you switch! I saw one bill go from $45/month to $75/month in bandwidth charges!

Secondly, just why are they ostensibly upgrading our speed when they’re running low on bandwidth?? If it was all about the bandwidth, they’d be slowing down our lines and keeping the download cap the same. Sounds more like they’re trying to squeeze us for more money, plain and simple.

Bell, one of the Canadian ISPs known for its BitTorrent throttling practices, launched its very own video download store this week. So, efficient BitTorrent is throttled for being a bandwidth hog, but customers are still able to download movies at full…

This is flying on the face of the damage they cause other independant ISPs (like Teksavvy, etc) by throttling their bandwidth (4PM to 2 AM, daily).

It should be noted that the videos being offered are also heavily wrapped in Microsoft based DRM – you won’t be able to play them as easily as torrent sourced ones. ;-)

I say it is because all of Bell’s customers look at streaming videos, including grandma and grandpa. It’s much easier to target a small segment of the population (people that use Bittorrent) and make them look like thieves.

http://www.netneutralityrally.ca/

I hope this catches on around the world. Be there and be heard friends. Our internet is at stake here, seriously!