Well it looks like ma bell has reported that is traffic shaping P2P traffic during peak hours. This wouldn’t totally surprise me since it is…well Bell…and my own experience with them has been less then ‘awesome’…but what’s interesting is that they are also targeting ISPs who use Bell as their upstream provider. So if you were a disgruntled customer and switched to another provider for your DSL, well your up the creek =)

Michael Geist has a write up about the issue, along with CBC and dslreports. And it looks like users are reporting that not only is P2P traffic being throttled but other encrypted traffic and protocols (IMAP, SSH, RDP, VOIP,VPN connections etc…)

There is also a Google Map that is being used to chart locations of where they are experiencing an impact.

So Bell has a few options:

1. Lower the posted rates
2. Upgrade the network
3. Yell louder than anyone else…(seems to work for politics) =)

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