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There's an interesting thread at dsl reports where some bell south customers point out: 1. many news groups still exist for the purpose of porn, they just aren't named alt.bin* 2. many news groups still exist with porn, erotica, sex, etc in their names. Yesterday, I fired up Pan on att yahoo to survey the damage. The posters were right, and there were many groups left. There were also posts in them from the last few days.

Or the FCC could point to Comcast themselves to support the FCC's position. According to this report at DSLReports, Comcast is arguing before a Federal judge that plaintiffs in California don't have standing to sue Comcast over the throttling because the FCC has sole authority over matters like that. If Comcast does win that argument, then all the FCC has to do is point to Comcast's successful argument and say "They've won the argument that we do have authority over this, they don't get to argue otherwise now.".

disable exec for avnotify.exe to disable the avira popups

Instructions for all versions of Windows (including W2K) at:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20463169-Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus

Posting AC because I've moderated,
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I live in Canada and none of the ISPs that provide internet connection to the home provide native IPv6 support. Holidaying in France the other day I found that free.fr and possibly Wanadoo/Orange provide IPv6 support. An incomplete list of Internet Service Providers providing native IPv6 is available, though it could probably be updated and as more ISPs start providing native support to their customers. DSL Reports, also has a forum dedicated to IPv6.

Myself, I have started experimenting with IPv6 simply so I can understand all the issues and be able to help out other adopters. I started using Teredo on my Mac (since it supports being behind a NAT), by means of Miredo (a nice front-end for the Mac is available here), and then moved onto Aiccu. The advantage with going using Aiccu, is that I can have an IPv6 subnet for my computers at home. Also, since I wanted to make my web server available on the IPv6 addressable net, I registered its IP address with FreeDNS, since they allow for registration of AAAA records on their servers. There are certainly other 6to4 tunnels providers, such as Freenet6, but I haven't really investigate them since I already have a solution that fits my needs.

1. Buy a D-Link DVG-1120M VOIP router on ebay for 10 bucks including shipping. 2 Convert it into a DVG-1120S Here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20580722?hilite= 3. Configure DVG 1120S with your provider, and put it as your first device (connect directly to your cable or DSL modem and then hook your LAN to it). This unit has great QoS VOIP bandwidth limiting, which is why AT&T used it for their VOIP service. It's only disadvantage is that it's WAN input is 10 base T so on a 10 mbps cable circuit the max throughput I get is about 8.4 mbps. For speeds below 8 mbps it's great! 4. Done

After a close examination it does say percent of congested links (out of several thousand) but the critical threshold would probably be around 10%. Taking the highest percent before DPI which is 6.6%, that's still not high and if it's that bad it would not have been that expensive to upgrade those links. not to mention the CRITERIA for getting ito that count of "congested links". here are the utilization limits for congested as per Bell Canada: DS-3 61%, OC-3 84%, OC-12 and OC-48 90%. so, for one of those links to be considered "congested" and added to that low % graph the following has to occur (using DS-3 links as an example). Over a 14 day period, utilization measurements are taken every 15 minutes. (snap shot of usage at that time). the limit of 61% must be exceeded atleast ONCE on 5 seperate days over that 14 day period. what that means is that for the total UP TIME of a link over that 14 days (in minutes) is 20,160 minutes (24hrs x 60min x 14 days). The link must only be above 61% for a TOTAL 75 of those minutes to be considered "congested", or 0.37% of it's available time. Lets also not forget that there could be a sudden spike of usage right at that 15 minute mark and then die down, but i'll assume the entire 15 minute interval is at that level for simplicity, lol.

- http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20690166-The-Bell-Disclosure

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cogent-McBandwidth-Gets-Cheaper-95203/

$7/mbit (of course talking about decent volumes here with the cheapest provider and I guess with fiber already in the ground)

However that should give you a clue how much everyone is overcharging everywhere. The expensive part is the digging, but it is good (money earning) business to charge big money for small traffic volumes on lines that in reality could support far higher volumes. Not to mention how inefficent a big part of the industry is.

Atleast that is the only way I can explain how some countries are managing to supply such nice bandwidth to their citizens without getting economically ruined.

See here. It is discontinued on 6/23/2008. :(

Does anyone know of a good binary news server? Currently, I am looking at EasyNews (rollover idea sounds neat), GigaNews, and Power Usenet news/usenet services since Time Warner Cable RoadRunner is discontinuing its free unlimited (no caps!) news/usenet service on 6/23/2008. Now, I need a third party that is similiar to it. I am still researching on what the best usenet/news server to get.

The two listed ones are a bit pricey for what I want:
1. Binary retentions (doesn't need crazy amounts of days like 100!).
2. Download speed during low usage hours (peak hours I can usually avoid). Posting is very rare and usually text posts in non-binary newgroups.
3. Good support from providers if problems occur.
4. Cheap prices (doubt free exists with third parties).
5. No limits especially caps! Sometimes I download 1 GB and sometimes I do 30 (rarely). EasyNews' rollover sounds good so I can carry over my unused datas.
6. Nice to have but not required: Security/Encryptions (will need to figure how to set this in Linux for Pan and Tin).

Thank you in advance. :)

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/8_131041

Bell South tests internet access over fiber.

in 1999.

At&T have laid fiber. Verizon has FIOS all over the place in the southeast

http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios?typ=s

You are wrong.

Look at the Bell provided graphs:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20567537-

Their ATM capacity is around 170 Gbit/s and their backbone traffic is around 125Gbit/s. They have 45Gbit of spare capacity and this is Bell's own numbers so who knows if they're inflated or not. Also, their DSLAM capacity is enormous so where exactly is the congestion? Maybe there are some DSLAMs that are congested but that's why you upgrade, not throttle your entire network and all 3rd party traffic over the ATM network.

Rogers throttles aggressively and has caps, I can say this being a rogers customer it stinks, but in many places there is no other game in town. This has also been covered repeatedly on DSLR http://dslreports.com/forum/rogers as well, other things they like to do is throttle encrypted traffic, which is really good if you're actually doing legitimate things.

You're absolutely right. But the Bell situation is worse than it looks. My DSL is with Teksavvy. I have no contract with Bell and yet they're throttling me. They were throttling their customers since last year (if I remember correctly) so people started leaving. Someone posted a document from a late last year Bell shareholder meeting on DSLReports. They were saying throttling might cause "customer churn". I guess since everyone is throttled now, the "churn" is prevented. Problem solved. The ongoing CRTC process is just a dog and pony show for gullible.

If only a website like that existed... Hmm...

You mean like dslreports has been doing forever and a day?

It's too bad they don't have the results broken down in a more useful manner, and don't ask where you are when you do the speed test.

What the parent said does not work in Canada. Basically, Bell Canada subject ALL traffic (including those that are leased to other ISP) through its last mile with DPI. They capped ALL traffic that are not on their white list. If you use SSL or any encryptions, you get 30kB/s caps...

No amount of encryption is going to work when they are throttling your PPPoE on its way to your ISP.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20465278-Proof-Bell-throttles-everything-but-known-portsprotocols

Suprisingly using dial-up for web browsing and for web interface email was acceptable. Granted this was in New York City.... But the phone line quality was poor, only receiving about 35k Lesson: get the best quality inside wiring you can (a cat3 cable from the phone box (NID) wired to a dedicated jack) and you may just get acceptable dialup. Modem shotgunning - maybe they can get 2 modems and connect to their ISP to get double the speed: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1406254;root=dialup;mode=flat Some ISP's used to off it - i.e. Earthlink (no endorsement intended) and may still do so

and what happens when it DOES become a STATE issue?

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9940361-7.html
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/RIAA-Pursues-StateLevel-AntiPiracy-Bills-94284

Bcastner's Broadband/DSL Reports forum thread shares Jane Maliouta's IEBlog about Microsoft Windows XP SP3 and how it'll work with the various released versions of Internet Explorer (v6.0 to 8.0 beta 1).

Also, this is another why you shouldn't upgrade right away, especially major upgrades. SP3 is not urgent. I am just going to wait until MS or something else forces me to upgrade to it. I am fine with SP2 and MS is still supporting it for a while (no idea when it ends).

Rogers has been doing this for a while, which goes along very well with their expensive and not-really-high-speed service.

Ok People ... since we have some more discussion here.

how about cross link this with the on going struggle in http://www.dslreports.com/ struggle....

http://www.freeourbandwidth.com/

Help with your comments from some 3rd party ISP's in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

Ok People ... since we have some more discussion here.

how about cross link this with the on going struggle in http://www.dslreports.com/ struggle....

http://www.freeourbandwidth.com/

Help with your comments from some 3rd party ISP's in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

Ok People ... since we have some more discussion here.

how about cross link this with the on going struggle in http://www.dslreports.com/ struggle....

http://www.freeourbandwidth.com/

Help with your comments from some 3rd party ISP's in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

Ok People ... since we have some more discussion here.

how about cross link this with the on going struggle in http://www.dslreports.com/ struggle....

http://www.freeourbandwidth.com/

Help with your comments from some 3rd party ISP's in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

And therefore they are not being affected by the throttling.

You are, of course, totally incorrect in your assertion. But it's easier for you to toss off a worthless one-liner troll-style than actually look into the matter, right? I'd suggest you go here , get yourself some insight and then come back and correct yourself.

Note to mods: Does posting wrong information just get a pass here these days?

Well, here's an email i got from them, and they are being throttled:

Dear Customers, As many of you may have heard of late, there have been quite a few activities through Bell that have caused some negative performance on P2P and BT traffic for us and all other DSL providers in Ontario and Québec.

TekSavvy is committed to fighting this injustice. For more details on this matter, go to: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy for various discussions.

In trying to bring a little bit of both humour and fun to this stressful week, we sat down and came up with a fun event to hold/get us through this challenging time!

We'll be setting up a gaming server to be ready for Saturday morning.

Some of AT&T's U-Verse deployments have been FTTP, such as in Oklahoma City:

http://www.dslreports.com/comment/2956/60809

You are correct that most of the deployments have been FTTN. Qwest is also pursuing a similar strategy, albeit at a slower pace.

Well maybe he only wants DSL? Or maybe his apartment building has a deal with one provider.
I live in a smallish city in Florida and I have better than 3 MBs from my cable modem in tests.
I really doubt his options in NYC are as limited as he says.
In fact here is a map of FIOS availability. http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios
Looks to me that it is all over NY. Maybe not in his area but there seems like there is a lot of it.

The US doesn't have regions that have a low population density. We have VAST areas with low population density.

Some of the newer 5.xx firmwares do require an authenticated session to perform this hack, but the 5.xx versions only work on Homeportal 2XXX models. The older HomePortal 1XXX models that AT&T had been deploying until recently still use an older 4.xx firmware, with the most recent known version 4.25.19

That version does not require an authenticated session, because the H04_POST page does not validate password. Thus the attacker simply sends a series of two URLs - the first using H04_POST to set the password to a known value, then the A02_POST page to set the DNS redirect.

See here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20309001-ATT-claims-this-is-fixed

A couple users at DSLreports indicated hat the hack is able to change the password on 4.25.19 firmware: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19987755-2Wire-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Vulnerability

Perhaps the hacker could change the password, then follow it up with a DNS entry.

yeah, but DSLreports is reporting that the 2700s and 2701s are vulnerable, so i'm not sure which is correct

Really!! Hahahaha. How ironic that my name follows his!

I can confirm the false-alarm in this case.

--Robb Topolski

http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps

See the mash-ups menu for some FIOS info.

Tie this to the privacy concerns i post here and make a second comment on page 2 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20287542-Privacy-concerns-of-deep-packet-Inspection now think like this landlords cannot without written permission enter your residence and need a decent reason. if they do they get time in jail and a large fine. what is bell inspecting and what are they doing with my packets. AND prove it. they won't so its a hack. They aren't even my ISP, TSI is. so that also falls them under a new identity theft issue which is bad news for bell.

I'm willing to be the pirate bay causes more bandwidth than all of those combined. And squared.

Bell Canada recently started throttling 3rd-party ISPs so one of them posted graphs showing what the throttling did to their traffic. TekSavvy has a reputation of being the ISP p2p users go to. The 2nd and 3rd graphs break down their traffic. UDP takes up the highest percentage of their traffic and Web takes up the second highest percentage. Peer to peer is third.

http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios Now look at Denver(or Salt Lake City for that matter) on the map. Tell me what the likelihood of getting from Podunk Nebraska Or Tucson Arizona to Denver in the next 3-5 years? Verizon is probably looking at the 3 million people in the metro area as not worth the investment.

Comcast says customers on their 6Mbps tier will see upstream speed bumps to 1Mbps at no cost, while 8Mbps downstream customers will see their upstream speeds bumped to 2Mbps. That may actually be the more exciting news for customers eager for more upstream bandwidth.

You can buy the NIM and use it instead. I agree, it's a shit router, and I had it setup (this breaks on demand and the guide with the method i used) so that it was just a dumb passthrough device to my regular router.

There's another guide that makes the router act as a NIM and somehow brings VOD and the guide back also on dsl reports that I have not tried, but I did confirm with the tech that if I got a NIM that it would work (he actually mentioned he was experimenting at home with various setups, which was neat).

So yes, the actiontec sucks shit, but I have to use it because until I get a NIM, my girlfriend gets infuriated that she can't find out which channel is playing CSI at the current second.

Well trust me they are. I'm a computer engineering graduate student so i know what i'm talking about. If you want more proof then how about this http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1289999~9f6b07adff86c09bab21eaf8fd445826/Throttling.png Better yet check out the tecksavvy DSL reports forum. They have several of there tech support people on explaining exactly how this is happening. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy David

Well trust me they are. I'm a computer engineering graduate student so i know what i'm talking about. If you want more proof then how about this http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1289999~9f6b07adff86c09bab21eaf8fd445826/Throttling.png Better yet check out the tecksavvy DSL reports forum. They have several of there tech support people on explaining exactly how this is happening. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy David

Some how they are only going to affect BitTorrent/P2P Traffic.
This is old news now... Bell has just admitted to it.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20223187-Update-on-throttling-issue

I'm with Teksavvy too and my issue is it's just too mom and pop. One time I got a lolcat e-mail from their support, and their tech support mechanism (the forums) is full of fanboys. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20186748-So-i-was-bored

Yes, because it's a game of averages. TekSavvy pays about 3 cents per megabit for the unmetered customers. They're betting that the average customer uses less than 500GB/mth (their estimated break-even point at the $40 pricepoint). And since the average unlimited user used 118.47GB in January (please see the DSLR thread where TekSavvy's owner listed their average user bandwidth figures: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20029507-Rocky-DecJan-bandwidth-stats), that game of averages currently works in TekSavvy's favour.

They used to charge $30/mth for unlimited service. Their breakeven point then would have been about 167GB. They were getting dangerously close to that breakeven point (and will probably pass it in the future), so were forced to raise the price to $40/mth.

This is based on the fact that Bell charges $20.50/mth per customer, and we usually guess that TekSavvy's other expenses are covered by the other $4.50 or so, and so we (the customers) usually say that $25/mth is spoken for, and they have the other $5 (or $15 in the case of the unlimited service) to pay for bandwidth and make a profit.

Meraki initially offered robustly featured indoor and outdoor nodes (which act as routers or repeaters) for $50 and $100. The plan was to allow people to become "micro" service providers in regions where cost is an issue or where broadband connections are scarce. The gear appealed to everyone from low-income housing to ISPs looking to add Wi-Fi as an added value service. Meraki quickly became a tech media and blog darling. Then last October the company suddenly unveiled a new three-tier pricing system that jacked up the price of hardware as much as three times for some users. The move bumped some of the functionality users were getting on the cheap (user authentication, billing) into higher tiers. The move annoyed users with deployed networks in the Meraki forums -- who say they were blindsided by the changes.

...depending on where you live, like Teksavvy: 50-60% of the price, great non-outsourced tech support, no throttles, no hidden caps, no excess-bandwidth gouging, no b.s. Highest user-rated ISP in North America at dslreports' "Good Bad Ugly" A to A+ vs. C+ to B- for the twin Borgs.

Wireless infrastructure is a completely different and much less expensive matter. Cell towers aren't cheap, but compared to running cable to every residence they're practically free.

And that's why landline companies are fighting attempts to offer Muni WiFi. Small city X has no provider of broadband services so they decide to setup their own wifi. When they do they end up fighting commercial businesses trying to stop them. These businesses are concerned about compeating against government, which I understand, but then they won't buildout themselves which is why the munis decided to themselves. Being libertarian I don't particularly like taxpayers being stuck with the bill myself, I do however like what a group of communities in northeastern Utah are doing. There they are creating a "Broadband Utopia". While the communities own the infrastructure access by any entity that wants to provide a service it is capable of can use it. Because of the competition almost 2 years ago Comcast was forced to offer a triple play of cable tv, net access, and phone service (landline) for $90 in the area.

That may or may not be correct but I distinctly remember reading a comment last year on this subject. Essentially, it's not that the cable providers (Comcast, Time Warner, etc) don't want to offer ala carte (despite their protestations that they can't technically do it) but rather it is the Viacoms and other programmers who won't let it happen.

If you, as Comcast, want to provide your butt fucks (er, subscribers) with ABC, you have to also carry ESPN, Disney and all other ABC related channels because that is what the programmers are offering. It's an all-or-nothing deal.

I distinctly remember last year there was a blow-up between Charter and the NFL network. Rather than rehash what my memory thinks happened, here is a discussion board which outlines what happened and the money that was involved.

Viacom et al do the same thing with all the packages that cable providers have. So yes, your original comment is correct but there is more to it.

Say what you will, his record suggests that he simply has no love for cable companies:

+ Does Kevin Martin hate cable?
+ Martin: A Record of 'Picking on' Cable
+ Kevin Martin Doesn't Hate Cable, He Just Loves Ma Bell

Of course, the BushCo connection seems to be more important than the facts here.

Fios is viable over here in Cambridge. DSL reports claims that there is FiOS in parts of Boston proper. There is also a slightly out of date map showing deployment in the area. And, of course, their statement of intent to expand Boston coverage from a year ago. Heck, they're selling it out of Jordan's Furniture. You can't get more Bostonian than that.

I'd check availability in your particular part of boston. It doesn't seem like Verizon is holding anyone hostage, so much as rollout is taking longer than all of us would like.