Throttle this bitch

I was with Bell Sympatico in the early days of broadband, enjoying 1.5 megs of downloading bliss. For a brief time I was with Rogers, but situated next to a University, the bandwidth was simply not there, leading to 50KB/s speeds, as the Rogers pipeline in downtown Toronto sucks my ass.

I moved out to the Durham region and once again had to suckle at the noxious teat of Rogers as DSL was no yet available in the dirty 'Shwa. One glorious morning I discovered I could has DSL and set about finding a 3rd party vendor, that unlike Bell or the more hideous Rogers, would not "traffic-shape", or "Port block" or in any way imped my ability to download what I want when I want.

TekSavvy was that vendor and things have been great until THIS happened.

Bell is now not only throttling, "shaping" and otherwise mucking with their own customer's services (which they pay handsomely for) but also the customers of the reseller who use their lines, like TekSavvy. The bottom line for this sudden, unannounced change in service across board is easily speculated as Bell attempting, like Rogers, to ensure the flow of traffic for their digital video delivery service takes precedence, even at the expense of their own customer's internet performance.

Clearly our government has no interest in getting involved (big surprise there, Harper government philosophy = big business good, average joe stupid) leaving only the consumers and the advocate groups to try and fight off this nonsense. I can only hope that the 3rd ISP's are able to band together and file a class action suit (should their terms of service with Bell allow) to force change.

Monopoly's suck.