Canadian News - Bells Figures Point to Bell As Being the Problem

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It looks like by releasing the half complete data recently Bell have provided enough information to show the real cause of their "congestion", their throttling system.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080629-bells-p2p-traffic-issues-easily-and-inexpensively-solved.html

Bell's P2P throttling program was allegedly designed to prevent more than 700,000 users from being affected by major congestion on Bell Canada's DSL network, and it has helped to bring down congestion in the aggregation link from the DSLAM to the broadband access server (BAS), in the BAS itself, and further upstream on Bell's backbone.
But the congestion rates weren't high before throttling began. One year ago, in May 2007, the aggregation link was congested 1.8 percent of the time, the BAS was congested 0.4 percent of the time, and the backbone experienced congestion 3 percent of the time.

At the DSLAM, though, congestion hovered around 4 percent last year. From October 2007 to May 2008, when Bell was rolling out its traffic-shaping gear, congestion at the DSLAM picked up dramatically, and Bell set three new congestion records (going from 7.8 percent to 8 percent to 8.2 percent).

ISPs like Bell Canada face a problem. Much of this new video is entirely legal, negating arguments that it's sort of okay to throttle P2P because, hey, we all know it's mostly used by pirates. If Bell thinks that P2P users complain when their torrents are throttled, wait until the general public can't access their Netflix HD streams or The Colbert Report on Hulu. As TV and movies continue to migrate to the web, throttling video bandwidth simply won't cut it as a business tactic anymore.

Its clear here that without the intervention of a regulatory authority Bells claims would be looked at as solid, when in fact its now shown they themselves created an artificial congestion by deploying throttling solutions instead of upgrading thier network capacity, short term gain thinking by poor management is the real problem it seems.

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lol another big company run by idiots. The article does make a really decent piont, more and more "authorized" video is becoming available, and these ISP's will have no excuse whatsoever to throttle such traffic. The days of blindly blaming p2p users are numbered, they will have no choice but to improve their own network and systems rather than laying the blame for their own shortsightedness on easy scapegoats.

Other ISP's take note, quit passing the buck, and get your own systems in order!!!!!!!