Fresh from the "what do you expect " dept it seems bell are playing games.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/25/tech-caip.htmlBell responded to an order issued last week by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to make public some of the data it was citing as the rationale for limiting the speeds of peer-to-peer internet applications, such as BitTorrent.
The data, made public on Wednesday, showed that between 2.6 and 5.2 per cent of the links that make up Bell's network in Ontario and Quebec experienced congestion between March 2007 and April 2008. In revealing the details, Bell explained in an accompanying letter that "while these numbers may seem low to the average lay person, they are significant to network traffic engineers such that it is important to consider the number of congested links in the proper context."
While the CRTC ordered some of those figures be made public, there is still too much left secret for observers to be able to come to any definitive conclusions about the level of congestion on Bell's network, said Tom Copeland, president of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers. The figures still do not show where there is possible congestion or at what times of day."There's not enough information there to making anything of it. The telling data is in what they continue to submit to the commission in confidence," he said. "It's hard to really analyze the percentages that they provided without having those other breakdowns.
I think they are digging themselves a nice hole here.
