I read this story earlier today and could not believe the throttling practices of Bell, whom as far as I know are the backbone to all the major ISP's in Canada. Most of us in Canada have fibre sitting SO close to our homes but of course it gets down graded before entering. Those stats... well... you know they could be accurate or they could be terribly phrased. I know that at my IT job I've recieved so many surveys where you get questions like "Do you find Microsoft office to be more innovating than before or is still just the same as always, the industry standard?" Then you see a headline like "90% of IT specialists agree, Microsoft Office is the industry standard!".
It's terrible how the ISP's are making you pay for a service and not keeping up with their end. If I pay for 16 Mbps, who are they to tell me what I can and can not do with it. If they can't support this, then they should not offer it. The internet was designed on bursty traffic a LONG time ago. Now we have streaming, downloading, p2p, and remote connections galore. Perhaps it's time to leave the stone age of the internet and move beyond bursts, peaks, and spikes in traffic and accept that it's going to be consistent high bandwidth usage!
Wow, it just keeps pushing the envelope further and further. Wait until they automate everything so that your entire privacy is 100% compromised. All of a sudden, if you speak out against the government there will be an email in your inbox along the lines:
"well... we could just charge you with the most petty of possible crimes, which you may or may not have committed, then release all your personal information to all publications world wide... Still want to challenge us?"
The part I'd love is how they would defend to death in a courtroom that evidence ceased in this manner to prosecute themselves was illegally obtained and should be dismissed.
Way too much abuse of power made possible by a bill like this. The internet needs to be kept free, open, and lawful. That includes requiring warrants. Why should someone be lawfully penalized based on their use of a utility. I'm definitely sending off my own letter to my MP about this.
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I read this story earlier today and could not believe the throttling practices of Bell, whom as far as I know are the backbone to all the major ISP's in Canada. Most of us in Canada have fibre sitting SO close to our homes but of course it gets down graded before entering. Those stats... well... you know they could be accurate or they could be terribly phrased. I know that at my IT job I've recieved so many surveys where you get questions like "Do you find Microsoft office to be more innovating than before or is still just the same as always, the industry standard?" Then you see a headline like "90% of IT specialists agree, Microsoft Office is the industry standard!". It's terrible how the ISP's are making you pay for a service and not keeping up with their end. If I pay for 16 Mbps, who are they to tell me what I can and can not do with it. If they can't support this, then they should not offer it. The internet was designed on bursty traffic a LONG time ago. Now we have streaming, downloading, p2p, and remote connections galore. Perhaps it's time to leave the stone age of the internet and move beyond bursts, peaks, and spikes in traffic and accept that it's going to be consistent high bandwidth usage!
Wow, it just keeps pushing the envelope further and further. Wait until they automate everything so that your entire privacy is 100% compromised. All of a sudden, if you speak out against the government there will be an email in your inbox along the lines: "well... we could just charge you with the most petty of possible crimes, which you may or may not have committed, then release all your personal information to all publications world wide... Still want to challenge us?" The part I'd love is how they would defend to death in a courtroom that evidence ceased in this manner to prosecute themselves was illegally obtained and should be dismissed. Way too much abuse of power made possible by a bill like this. The internet needs to be kept free, open, and lawful. That includes requiring warrants. Why should someone be lawfully penalized based on their use of a utility. I'm definitely sending off my own letter to my MP about this.