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ISP’s Throttling Exposures

Your ISP using small print, in the terms and conditions explains why your ISP caps you for hours at a time every day of the week. Why their broadband customers pay out money for a 50% service without their knowledge, Why they don’t have the decency to email their residential customers about the capping policy and just tuck it away on their web site and hope nobody finds it.

The facts; Virgin Media Support took two calls and over three hours

Before they admitted their customers had been capped by a so called

8 month old “new policy” called traffic management,

this is in place from 10 AM to 3 PM and again from 4 PM to 9 PM, seven days a week.

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FCC to curb ISP traffic management

Thou shalt not throttle the inter web

By Nick Farrell: Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 8:14 AM

THE US FCC is promising to kick the butt of ISP's who try to stop Peer 2 Peer with secret traffic management plans.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he was ready to spank the bottom of errant ISP's who secretly favour certain types of data traffic, like Web surfing, over others, like file sharing. This was the method championed by Com cast at a recent hearing.

However Martin said that the complaints that Com cast had generated with its actions underscored the need to enforce the FCC's current broad principles intended to promote so-called "Net neutrality."

He warned that the FCC was ready to step in if ISP's carried on that sort of lark.

While he accepted that ISP's should be allowed to take reasonable steps to make efficient use of their networks, Martin said that management policies must be disclosed.

Punters needed to know what the ISP's were up too so they could configure their own applications and systems properly.

So in other words it is OK to throttle the Inter web so long as you tell punters you are doing it.

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Broadband providers admit traffic management  Many broadband service providers have admitted to Internet "traffic management" when demand is at its highest during peak time, a report claims.

Canada-based Bell Simpatico, one of the country's largest broadband providers, has admitted to targeting P2P software such as Bit Torrent and Kazaa when many people are on the Internet at once, Daily Tech reports.

An unnamed forum administrator on the ISP's web site said the company was putting in place measures to "restrict accounts". The contributor also said that such measures were commonplace and were found in many countries across the world, including the UK.

A Bell Simpatico manager told the news provider: "Bell is using Internet traffic management to ensure we deliver bandwidth fairly to our customers during peak Internet usage."

Earlier this year, a number of British broadband providers warned that they would limit traffic if the BBC's iPlayer download system became too popular.

Reported by Broadband Finder,  Monday, 12th November 2007