No big surprise here. Rogers Cable here in Canada started this with their high-speed cable "unlimited" service in December 2005. How can you call it unlimited when you limit my bandwith?!?

When I found out I cancelled by account and went to Netscape. I pay $5 less and it is DSL which works faster then cable.

If this is so; what is Bell Sympatico going to tell their current subscribers, and what do they plan to do immediately? Heads should roll, and jobs should be lost, with the intent on deceiving the public/and users.
I to, have had issues with Bell for over a year now, and nothing has been resolve in my own case.
They (Bell) tried to tell me that it was a problem with my cable wires running into my newly established condo. I also had 4 different Bell tachs come out to my location, and none of them found any problems at all. So i found another isp and signed a contract for a 6 month to find out that they are offering the high speed cheaper, and surprisingly faster;(Wow, all along the same fibre optical lines as Bell)
What a bunch of thieves.

Ugh Bell period is possibly the most complicated company in the world. I remember when years ago we were going to suscribe to their highspeeed DSL and it took them a week to figure out that our computer wasn't new enough to be able to support it.

After that we bought a new computer and switched to Cogeco Highspeed standard cable. I like it because it's fast(roughly my speed is like 7Mb/s down and about 3Mb/s up on a speed test, although they advertise 10Mb/s down)and they have a 60GB upload and download limit :)

they have to do that in peak hours so they don't collapse mostly every isp in the world does that, they just don't admit it, evry user who doesn't have unlimited bandwith has a 10% or 20%(depending on the isp) down limit so if you you pay for 2000 dsl u at least get 200 or 400 in peak hours. and since a isp capability isn't unlimited ppl won't ever get real unlmited just a lot but no unlmited

I wonder if I too am being throttled. I have DSL through 3web in Ontario, but the service is supposedly "piggy-backed" off of Bell's DSL service. I get monthly bills from 3web but on my home phone bill from Bell the DSL connection is also listed (no charges though - I guess they have to list it if it is activated)

I'll have to find a fast torrent or a fast emule download and find out.

There is a big thread over at DSL Reports about this. Just to clarify, they are not throttling everyone all the time. They are only doing it at locations along the network that get heavily congested during 'peak times'. The throttling will only kick in once the congestion starts. The throttling only targets P2P apps, so although they throttle your torrent speed per say, any regular web surfing will remain at the same speed. It isnt know yet how widespread the throttling is because we can't get a gauge on the amount of congestion that is apparently prompting this.

bell is crap anyways dont know why anyone would choose that over rogers.but rogers does the same.my internet wasnte working the said its faster than its supposed to be and as soon i was done the conversation my internet magically started working.scam artists.

^^ Because not everyone has access to Rogers. Also Rogers has some bad caps, Im still on unlimited with Bell.

Bell is just another example of a corp. telling us what we should do. Not for what we are paying for. At some point these corporations are going to have to eat crow to understand that they aren't our parents and all they are doing is trying to control information. Bell in general sucks and I'm not surprised if you told me all ISP's do this to some degree. Instead of using our money to pay for a more robust system on their end they try to make do with what they have from years ago and pocket the money for the CEO's.

I say Cogeco or Mountain Cable for the area that I live in... Although I have Cogeco because I don't live on the "mountain"(I hear that mountain Cable is pretty fast). Cogeco is in the areas where Rogers isn't and vice versa... It's like its a little battle ground lol

I'm with Bell right now and its true...emule is SLOW..but what gets me is that only 2 downloads are ever going simultaneously. Yet when I download from Usenet using Newshosting..flies like the wind.

Well just because eMule is slow doesnt mean that it is Bells fault.

To reiterate, they are only throttling during times when there is high congestion at certain locations. They are not throttling(yet) across the whole network. Thankfully where I live there doesnt appear to be much congestion, so nothing of mine has been throttled yet.

hmm sounds like xtra (new zealand isp) they do the same thing on there unlimited plan

Same thing is going on here in the UK with ViginMedia except they call it "traffic shaping". If you have a 2mb account and you download more than 350mb in any 24hour period VM automatically cuts your bandwidth in half i.e. down to 1mb for at least 4 hours! But they still headline their adverts for potential new suckers "NO DOWNLOAD LIMITS" which is technically true of course.

Maybe this way they can say we can't stop them but we can try to slow them down.