The hole ISPs dig when they choose throttling over capacity

April 7th, 2007

“For years we’ve tracked how Canadian cable providers are at the forefront of using caps and traffic throttling to avoid having to invest in infrastructure upgrades. Shaw was one of the first providers to throttle the entire BitTorrent application, and fellow cable operator Rogers has long been playing traffic shaping cat and mouse with “bandwidth hogs.” Techdirt points to a report by Michael Geist that explores how all encrypted traffic over the Rogers network suffers because of their efforts to stop BitTorrent file traders…” (Read full article here)

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