Re: Bandwidth Throttling

Is that legal? Should we be taking ISPs to court for this? It doesn't sounds
very legal to me....
On 1/5/07, Luke D <jules.inu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I pay for there highest home service and I have not had any of my ports
> blocked. I run my own test web server and DNS and other projects. I heard
> GCI did that thought. I wish some one would do a side by side comparison,
> I
> would love to know who is the best.
> On 1/5/07, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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