Hi all concerned about Bell High Speed, If you watched tonight, Wednesday, on the CBC at 8 PM the item about High Speed Internet "real speed" - you would have enjoyed it a lot! Especially when talking about Bell problems. It is Deja vu all over again. The program was "Market Place" or "Fifth Estate". They compared High Speed reception of Rogers, Shaw (Cable), Telus and Bell (Land line). I don't remember performance number but Rogers was >90% of their promised 7MB/sec speed, Bell was about 16% of their 5MB/sec speed. They run a parallel downloading experiment, using same equipment. Rogers (1st), Shaw (2nd) and Telus (3rd) finished long time before Bell. Rogers was maybe 20 minutes. Bell was over 2 hours for same. They had Charlotte Burke trying to explain (to those who don't know her - she is at the very top at Bell) but with much difficulties. In short, it was very very embarrassing for Bell. If I was a Bell executive I would probably call everyone tonight for an emergency meeting. And I was Rogers, I would have a great Xmas gift sent to the CBC.
Yoram -----Original Message----- From: Keith Major | Aquarius Telecom Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 21, 2007 9:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [biz] Bell Internet Traffic Shaping Looks like the rodents at Bell are gnawing on the internet service. Last week, I visited a neighbour to look at their computer and found the Bell internet performance quite poor; some images/pages not loading and streaming video was poor and choppy. I found it strange that they were getting over 2.4 megs download on the HYPERLINK "http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/"http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ speakeasy speed test and the actual web surfing experience on their new computer was poor. At home, I have a 4 meg account, and started noticing similar things Monday evening. I did a speed test and found something interesting. Whilst the speed test is underway, I can see the speed increase to 3 megs then drop down to under 1.6 megs - similar to a driving instructor slowing the student driver during a lesson (they have their own brake pedal on the passenger side) followed by an increase in speed again. Upload speed in all tests remain constant above 660kbps. My goal is to leave Bell completely at this point so, Bell resellers will not be considered. Does anyone have suggestions/recommendations for residential DSL service? Thanks, Keith No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 20/11/2007 11:34 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
