The following article is a little heads up, with bell throttling everyone here in canada for -2- usage becaus eit uses to much bandwidth, expect to be soon throttled for Youtube, Break.com, Liveleak, etc……….
After that bw has been throttled expect Newsgroups and ftp, the last safe frontiers to be throttled.

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The most consistent rationale for ISPs to throttle p2p applications or charge by the byte is that a small minority of users drain a vastly disproportionate amount of bandwidth, like the planet-raping aliens in Independence Day. Om Malik pulls a few of these numbers out of Arbor Networks’ CTO, who develops all the traffic management tools your ISP probably uses, so while there’s a conflict of interest (portents of internet doom sell more stuff) they have the data. Ten percent of subscribers consume 80 percent of bandwidth, a super-leeching 0.5 percent swallow 40 percent of bandwidth, and the rest like your mom, 80 percent, sip less than 10 percent. But p2p isn’t the culprit.

No, p2p is no longer the single biggest traffic whore, responsible for only 20 percent of total traffic. It’s streaming video, like YouTube and Hulu, which is now 50 percent of total traffic. During peak congestion—the times when Comcast will slow you down for hitting the pipe too hard—70 percent of it is http.

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Did you ever stop to wonder how an apparent 5% of the users who use up an apparent 33% of the available internal network bandwidth didn’t apparently pay enough for their usage to justify Bell upgrading its network?

Did you ever stop to wonder how it came to be that Bell’s internal network congestion problem was so critical it didn’t need to inform wholesalers, instead deciding to throttle them?

Did you ever stop to wonder how LITTLE Bell must be making on the network (both wholesale and Sympatico retail) to justify Bell spokesman Mirko Bibic’s comment that, “Bandwidth just doesn’t fall from the sky”?

I have.

Below are general costs (Re. 1, 2, & 3) of one wholesaler, TekSavvy, neatly compiled and then broken down to reflect what Bell is making both retail and wholesale.

Table 1: TekSavvy GAS (Gateway Access) Deliver Costs. ISPs pay the following to Bell to deliver a DSL connection (NOT internet costs, but internal network costs paid to Bell)
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Last month Azureus published a plugin through which users can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, and today we have a preview of some early findings. A massive 1,000,000 hours of data from over 8000 users has been collected over the past few weeks. The preliminary results again confirm that Comcast continues to use TCP-resets to manage BitTorrent traffic on their network, but they are not alone.

See stats and Full article at source

Subject: Application requesting certain orders directing Bell Canada to
cease and desist from “throttling” its wholesale ADSL Access
Services

Looks like were being BEAVERED again!

Bell has responded to the CRTC’s demands, and as expected its long, wordy and the same old BS(Bellshit). They even go as far as to define the Internet under their own terms. LoL.

Read at the below link if you want to even bother, summarized, we own our shit, we will do as we like, take ti or leave it!(which with bell usually means a payout somewhere, I’m sure this wouldn’t be cheap for third party ISPS to do)

Bell Canada (or the Company) hereby provides its Answer to an Application dated 3 April 2008, made by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) pursuant to sections 7, 24, 25, 27, 32, 36 and 62 of the Telecommunications Act and Part VII of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure requesting that the Commission issue an order on an expedited basis directing Bell Canada to immediately cease and desist from “throttling” wholesale ADSL services and in particular, the wholesale service known as Gateway Access Service (GAS).

You can get ongoing coverage of the issue at FreeOurBandwidth.Com and learn ways you can stand up for your rights.