Who in their right mind would want to move to Waterloo?
I mean, really, the university isn't even the best in Ontario, let alone the country and Waterloo itself is in the middle of nowhere.
UWaterloo is one of the top universities in the world for Math and CS.
Besides the Perimeter Institute, it also has the Institute for Quantum Computing which is pretty major in the field.
Also, the Fields Institute was originally founded at UWaterloo before moving to the University of Toronto (the only other university in Canada that's comparable in Math).
UWaterloo also has strong ties with industry. Research in Motion is right next door and has hundreds of Waterloo graduates in CS working for them. Microsoft has a good number of UWaterloo graduates as well.
It's really exciting that he's thinking about going there (not only for Waterloo but also it's very great for Canada as a whole).
Aggressive traffic shaping is not welcomed by the customer, and the customer will leave, it's a simple free market exercise - just vote with your wallet, and word of mouth will do the rest.
Otherwise, if you don't like the service your ISP gives you, with a protocol you chose, you are free to renegotiate your contract, or switch to another provider. Actually, Bell has a monopoly on DSL in many parts of Canada... If you go to another ISP that sells you DSL service you're still being throttled by Bell because that ISP ultimately leases Bell's network.
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Who in their right mind would want to move to Waterloo? I mean, really, the university isn't even the best in Ontario, let alone the country and Waterloo itself is in the middle of nowhere.
UWaterloo is one of the top universities in the world for Math and CS. Besides the Perimeter Institute, it also has the Institute for Quantum Computing which is pretty major in the field. Also, the Fields Institute was originally founded at UWaterloo before moving to the University of Toronto (the only other university in Canada that's comparable in Math). UWaterloo also has strong ties with industry. Research in Motion is right next door and has hundreds of Waterloo graduates in CS working for them. Microsoft has a good number of UWaterloo graduates as well. It's really exciting that he's thinking about going there (not only for Waterloo but also it's very great for Canada as a whole).