Packet Shaping In Canada ...

Harold Jarche speaks out on potential stealth tactics by a large Canadian cable company, Rogers.  I've wondered about this in the past on the ThermoSAT blog.

From Harold's post titled "Packet Shaping"

Skype is a peer-to-peer application and one which I have used for several years, though it doesn’t seem to work on my Bell-Aliant Ultra DSL connection. Some people have suggested that Skype’s service is just getting worse, but my experience is that it works for everyone on my contact list but me. When I talk, my speech is broken. At the same time, Google Talk works just fine. I’m wondering if Aliant is testing out packet shaping on our local switch and has yet to roll it out to the entire network.

Anyway, it’s clear that telecom oligopolies like Rogers have no problems applying these dirty tactics in their search for profits.

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