Hey Keith, here in ontario everything goes across the dsl network know as bell nexxia. (unless of course your provider runs you a direct loop to there switch which would have to be withing a couple km) Anyone with bell nexxia agreements should be able to service you without the issues your experiencing now as its bells customer control mechanisms that are probably plauging you and not the network. If you want to know more about the bell nexxia or getting access to it, contact me offlist and ill explain it more in detail. Phil
________________________________ From: Keith Major | Aquarius Telecom Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 9:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [biz] Bell Internet Traffic Shaping Looks like the rodents at Bell are gnawing on the internet service. Last week, I visited a neighbour to look at their computer and found the Bell internet performance quite poor; some images/pages not loading and streaming video was poor and choppy. I found it strange that they were getting over 2.4 megs download on the HYPERLINK "http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/"http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ speakeasy speed test and the actual web surfing experience on their new computer was poor. At home, I have a 4 meg account, and started noticing similar things Monday evening. I did a speed test and found something interesting. Whilst the speed test is underway, I can see the speed increase to 3 megs then drop down to under 1.6 megs - similar to a driving instructor slowing the student driver during a lesson (they have their own brake pedal on the passenger side) followed by an increase in speed again. Upload speed in all tests remain constant above 660kbps. My goal is to leave Bell completely at this point so, Bell resellers will not be considered. Does anyone have suggestions/recommendations for residential DSL service? Thanks, Keith No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 20/11/2007 11:34 AM
