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Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring

Posted by timothy on from the just-wanted-to-say-canadian-throttling-front dept.

dougplanet writes with news from the Canadian-throttling front: "As ordered by the CRTC, Bell has released (some) of its data on how torrents and P2P in general are affecting its network. Even though there's not much data to go on, it's pretty clear that P2P isn't the crushing concern. Over the two-month period prior to their throttling, they had congestion on a whopping 2.6 and 5.2 per cent of their network links. They don't even explain whether this is a range of sustained congestion, or peaks amongst valleys."

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  1. Re:I knew it!! by aikodude · · Score: 5, Funny

    get 'cher fresh hot torches here! can't go to an angry mobbing without fresh hot torches!!!

  2. Let's see... by Monkey_Genius · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Advertise unlimited Internet.
    2. Throttle customer bandwidth.
    3. ?
    4. Profit!
    Business for the 21st Century 101.

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  3. Re:I knew it!! by grim4593 · · Score: 5, Funny

    From www.bash.org:

    DmncAtrny: I will write on a huge cement block "By accepting this brick through your window, you accept it as is and agree to my disclaimer of all warranties, express or implied, as well as disclaimers of all liability, direct, indirect, consequential or incidental, that may arise from the installation of this brick into your building."
    DmncAtrny: And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
    DmncAtrny: and run like hell

  4. Re:Nothing new by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) RTFS
    2) RTFA
    3) Discover that existence of anything more than tiny pockets of congestion is just a bunch of bullshit, and that not only have you been lied to about P2P being a problem, you've been lied to about the whole goddamned problem
    4) PRICELESS

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  5. Re:How funny by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Funny

    (or is 5 percent a lot?)

    I would say that depends on if it's the five percent I am in.

  6. Re:Glad to hear this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're like OPEC. They don't even try to hide behind phoney legitimacy anymore, They're basically saying, "We don't have to rape you, but we will, and you're going to bend over and LIKE IT!".

    False.

    Since when has "and LIKE IT!", in relation to the customer, ever entered into any telco (or OPEC) executive's mind?

  7. Re:And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    -2, Jealous