Canadian ISP admits to throttling P2P

[method77]

In response to consumer complaints posted in the company's official forum, Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico has admitted that it uses bandwidth throttling technologies to impose limitations on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing during peak hours. This revelation is further evidence that net neutrality—the principle of equal treatment for all traffic through a network—is eroding.

"We are now using a Internet Traffic Management to restrict accounts that are using a large portion of bandwidth during peak hours," a Sympatico forum administrator wrote in response to a user complaint. The forum administrator also provides a list of affected applications, which includes BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, and other widely-used P2P applications. Readers of Broadband Reports had been suspicious for some time that the ISP was throttling traffic.

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[DudeAsInCool]

At least they were upfront about it - that's more than you can say for Comcast, who denied doing the same thing.

[Redneck4sure]

At least they were upfront about it - that's more than you can say for Comcast, who denied doing the same thing.

Upfront to me means that tell you before you sign up that they are doing it or notify you as soon as they start doing it if you are already a customer.

Admitting it after they caught when there is no way that they can realistically deny it not the same as being upfront.

[method77]

Red is correct and I remember reading in the past that they were denying it

[DudeAsInCool]

Red is correct and I remember reading in the past that they were denying it

Yes, but now they have owned up--Comcast hasn't