Caught in the trottle
September 3rd, 2007 Posted in General
As more and more Canadians begin using their high-speed Internet for applications that use a large amount of bandwidth, some ISPs are starting to pick and choose who gets full use of their high-speed access, while limiting or “de-prioritizing” others.
This is an important story about the so called practise by some ISPs to “traffic shape.” Traffic shaping allows ISPs to give more or less priority to different types of network traffic. For example, to combat the large amount of bittorent traffic on their networks, many ISPs are giving lower priority to torrent traffic. Caveat emptor. Steve