Re: RE: Bandwidth Throttling

These days with gci, you can get Cable modem with out purchasing a cable tv plan, in most areas. Also, To my knowledge gci does not throttle on bittorrent bandwidth at this time. The other great thing is that they own both of the largest fibers between here and the lower 48;)

Corey W.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@ci.juneau.ak.us>
Date: Friday, January 5, 2007 12:21 pm
Subject: RE: Bandwidth Throttling
To: aklug@aklug.org

> 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'schanged? (I'm in Juneau.)
>
> This whole "you must be a criminal" mentality by the computer/media
> industry is really getting old...
>
> ...Kevin
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