Re: RE: Bandwidth Throttling

Also, GCI has their own news groups server. They throttle the connection
speed to 1Mbps, but only from their server. If you have a professional
Usenet server your subscribed to, they don't care.
-Kurt

On 1/5/07, Corey Weiss <cweiss@gci.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> > --=20
> > Kevin Miller Registered Linux User No: 307357
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