RE: Bandwidth Throttling

Luke D wrote:
> I am hoping that some one can help me on the AKLUG list.
> I called and talk to ACS and they told me they throttling Bittorrent
> bandwidth. I know that it is used a lot of illegal file sharing such
> as music, movies, games etc. But I use it to get my Linux distros.
> Also World of Warcraft uses Bittorrent protocol to download updates.
> Does GCI do the same thing? I am really considering dropping ACS if
> GCI does not do this. The only problem I might have with GCI is there
> bandwidth caps.=20
>=20
> Also I am wondering how many people think that they should not
> throttling bandwidth and block ports?

I'm with you. They also seem to throttle news groups. I can go to a
web page and pull it up pretty quickly, but sometimes have to wait for
10 or 15 seconds or more for a 10 line text usenet post to come in.
Sometimes (very rarely) it'll be almost instantaneous but most of the
time it's a pig.

It used to be that to get cable internet you had to have cable TV. I
don't and don't want to so GCI wasn't an option. Anybody know if that's
changed? (I'm in Juneau.)

This whole "you must be a criminal" mentality by the computer/media
industry is really getting old...

...Kevin
--=20
Kevin Miller Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept. Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
155 South Seward Street ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801 fax: (907 586-4500
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Received on Fri Jan 5 12:21:17 2007