RE: Bandwidth Throttling

 Well, as far as I know, there is no equipment in place at this particular
time that could do that sort of throttling.
I could be wrong, but I haven't seen anything go out the door.

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> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]
> On Behalf Of Jim Gribbin
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:59 PM
> To: Luke D
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling
>
> It didn't occur to me at the time that the ISPs might be
> throttling, but I suspect GCI is doing that with bittorrent
> also. I downloaded the latest OpenOffice the other day and it
> didn't seem like it was going that much faster than dial-up.
> They were probably throttling too.
>
> I also find port blocking a little annoying. They apparently
> do it do keep people from running servers without paying for
> the higher level service. It's my understanding that if you
> pay for the commercial version of the DSL, those ports aren't
> blocked. At least fewer of them are.
>
> Jim
>
> 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.
> >
> > Also I am wondering how many people think that they should not
> > throttling bandwidth and block ports?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Luke
> >
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