Canadian regulators allow P2P throttling

Canada's telecom regulator won't stop Bell Canada from throttling P2P traffic on its retail and wholesale Internet services, but it will launch an entirely new inquiry into the big questions surrounding traffic management and network neutrality.

November 20, 2008 - 11:55AM CT - by Nate Anderson

WiMAX networks: we won't single out P2P for punishment

No sooner has Comcast agreed to stop discriminating against particular applications then a similar controversy hits the new WiMAX services. Clearwire's CEO tells Ars that his company's WiMAX network won't single out P2P traffic for punishment.

October 03, 2008 - 07:50AM CT - by Nate Anderson

Comcast to slow down heaviest 'Net users to DSL speeds

Comcast is offering more details about the "protocol agnostic" throttling solution that will replace its current, FCC-denounced approach to network management. Heavy users will be "deprioritized" for 10 to 20 minutes at a time.

August 21, 2008 - 11:43AM CT - by Nate Anderson

Hammer drops at last: FCC opposes Comcast P2P throttling

The Comcast P2P saga has come to its final chapter as a majority of FCC commissioners today voted to sanction the company. The FCC's Internet Policy Statement now sports some unexpectedly sharp teeth.

July 25, 2008 - 09:13PM CT - by Nate Anderson

Big Cable: FCC Internet policy should apply to colleges too

A cable industry group is trying to convince the FCC to apply its network management rules to colleges and universities—despite the fact that campus Internet is for students and staff only, not a general public promised fast and always-on Internet connections.

July 24, 2008 - 10:01PM CT - by Matthew Lasar

Group warns FCC: Comcast's good behavior just a "trick play"

The gloves are off in the Free Press/Comcast brouhaha at the FCC, and Ars has a front row seat to the fight. Is Comcast trying desperately to stave off regulation through worthless private partnerships, or is Free Press flip-flopping on the FCC's legal authority to act?

July 17, 2008 - 11:20AM CT - by Nate Anderson

Google slams Bell Canada: open Internet is "extraordinary"

Google weighs in on Bell Canada's P2P throttling system, blasting the company's approach and the sad state of the ISP market. Not surprisingly, other incumbent ISPs don't think Bell's solution is too bad, and one even cops to some P2P throttling of its own.

July 08, 2008 - 12:30PM CT - by Nate Anderson

Bandwidth caps could lead to ISPs benefiting from piracy

As Time Warner begins experimenting with bandwidth caps, which are commonplace in other countries, the possibility now exists that ISPs will benefit financially from their customers burning through their monthly limits to keep grabbing P2P content.

July 04, 2008 - 12:15PM CT - by Eric Bangeman

Bell's P2P traffic issues "easily and inexpensively solved"

Bell Canada released some congestion numbers this week that show where the real traffic problem lies: the DSLAM. Throttling, which the company uses now, isn't a long-term solution, or even a solution at all; infrastructure upgrades remain the only viable solution.

June 29, 2008 - 08:54PM CT - by Nate Anderson

Bell Canada: congestion numbers look low, but actually aren't

Bell Canada at last releases its secret numbers on network congestion. Sure, they look low, but Bell wants you to know that "network traffic engineers" have decided that they're not, and that P2P throttling is the only workable way to bring them down.

June 25, 2008 - 01:31PM CT - by Nate Anderson

Regulators want answers from Bell Canada on P2P throttling

The CRTC has asked Bell Canada for data on P2P use, deep packet inspection throttling techniques, and when the company is willing to add more capacity. The answers, due in ten days, will be fascinating.

May 19, 2008 - 09:45PM CT - by Nate Anderson