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January 15th, 2008, 10:08 PM
When I say throttling, it means the ISP provider is limiting your speed [dl/up] for limited amount of duration. For example, let say you got 256 kpbs [pretty good I guess. Is this about 250 kb/s?]. The provider can and WILL limit your speed by 50%, 75% or etc. The providers might say, "your service has not been degraded" but in truth, it kinda has because we aren't going to receive that much speed we--the consumers--pay for. [By the way, throttling is daily phenomenon once its initiated by companies. It has nothing to do with how much you download or upload, it simply means "controlling speed upto certain level for a duration of time."]
Also, the bandwidth simply means how much dl/up you can do. So, if you are paying less than what your suppose to then you might not have passed 10gb dl/up which is good thing since you are not spending more than your suppose to.
I don't know a thing about Telus...but er...I know a bit about Bell; just a bit.
When I say throttling, it means the ISP provider is limiting your speed [dl/up] for limited amount of duration. For example, let say you got 256 kpbs [pretty good I guess. Is this about 250 kb/s?]. The provider can and WILL limit your speed by 50%, 75% or etc. The providers might say, "your service has not been degraded" but in truth, it kinda has because we aren't going to receive that much speed we--the consumers--pay for. [By the way, throttling is daily phenomenon once its initiated by companies. It has nothing to do with how much you download or upload, it simply means "controlling speed upto certain level for a duration of time."]
Also, the bandwidth simply means how much dl/up you can do. So, if you are paying less than what your suppose to then you might not have passed 10gb dl/up which is good thing since you are not spending more than your suppose to.
I don't know a thing about Telus...but er...I know a bit about Bell; just a bit.
