24 Nov
2005
24 Nov
'05
6:24 p.m.
On November 24, 2005 10:51 am, Sean Walberg wrote this amazing epistle:
Anyone tried downloading any distributions (or other things) using BitTorrent through Shaw? Apparently they're using Ellacoya shapers to throttle back the bandwidth. A coworker just got off the phone with their support who confirmed it.
Sean
There was a story (I think it was on Slashdot) about six months to a year ago about how they were doing this in Vancouver. A few people in wpg.general were saying how this was another reason to switch to MTS. A couple of Shaw people said they weren't going to be doing it here.
So much about "just supplying a connection to the net". Now "they" are trying to censor legal activity...
Later Mike
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