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1. Comment - Bell Canada admits to throttling broadband P2P traffic

   (Mar 27, 2008 - 11:27 AM)

   Quoted from a Bell/Sympatico notice recently posted in other forums had this info in it. As Bell/Sympatico would never release the actual numbers, Here is somewhat of an extrapolation.
   
   "Important Usage Billing Changes
   dated March 13, 2008"
   
   "only 5% of our base exceeds 60GB/month. In fact 82% of customers stay under 10GB /month."
   
   This leave 13% of customers using between 10 and 60GB/month.
   
   So using the above info at worst case usages:
   82 x 10GB = 820GB
   13 x 60GB = 780GB
   
   820GB + 780GB = 1600GB
   
   1600GB/95 = 16.8 GB
   
   In effect 95% of Sympatico's own user base average about 17GB a month at worst.
   
   Now lets say the other 5% use 500GB a month on average per user:
   
   5 x 500GB = 2500GB
   
   1600GB + 2500GB = 4100GB
   
   4100GB/100 = 41GB
   
   so as per Bell/Sympatico's numbers: overall, I don't see a real issue here with total amounts of bandwidth used, as 41GB is not a huge amount in our present internet world....
   
   So what is the real reason for capping and traffic shaping?