Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Bell Canada will not allow you to have DSL without having a phone number
attached to it - their phone service, of course. That defeats the
purpose of VoIP since you can't do away with your conventional phone,
or at least you don't stop paying for it.
That's pretty
Ah! Proof, I have changed my ISP and now my Slimserver/Squeezebox is
playing Shoutcast streams again for more than an hour without a single
stutter, fingers crossed.
Stays like this and Squeezebox and me will be best of friends again.
Note if changing your ISP in the UK, dont forget to demand
rudholm Wrote:
That's ridiculous. VoIP doesn't use that much bandwidth (about 64kbps).
And in any case, are you not buying the advertised bandwidth? *It's as
if these ISPs think retail broadband is just port 80 and some email
and nothing else. That's not an IP connection --that's AOL
avaloncourt Wrote:
I was just listening to a tech radio show today and the caller was
Canadian. He talked about Shaw cable. They're penalizing accounts $10
if they detect VoIP usage. They won't charge $10 if the subscriber uses
Shaw's VoIP service. Expect more of that.
Wow that is pretty
Dougal Wrote:
But there must be something that makes slimserver, Squeezebox or
Softsqueeze to be treated differently than other media players like
winamp etc.
Perhaps it is differences in the buffer size.
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Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Hmm. Maybe things aren't as bad in Canada as I thought.
Bell's been stuck at 2 Mbps for about 5 years now but at least they're
not pulling stunts like that. Wouldn't put it past them to try though.
I was just listening to a tech radio show today and the caller was
avaloncourt Wrote:
I was just listening to a tech radio show today and the caller was
Canadian. He talked about Shaw cable. They're penalizing accounts $10
if they detect VoIP usage. They won't charge $10 if the subscriber uses
Shaw's VoIP service. Expect more of that.
That's ridiculous.
radish Wrote:
Why 3483? That's only used for internal communications between
slimserver and the squeezebox.
Yes I really should read a bit more before committing finger to
keyboard.
But there must be something that makes slimserver, Squeezebox or
Softsqueeze to be treated differently than
How specifically did you determine this? Not that I doubt you, I'm just
wondering.
I'm wondering what purpose it would serve the ISP. Did they do this to
try to block P2P? If it's a conscious decision meant to block access in
certain ways, sounds like corporate censorship.
It could
Mark Lanctot wrote:
The so-called independent ISPs around here just buy bandwidth from
the big two so that wouldn't help either.
That's true, but it's not the whole story. At least for DSL service in
Ontario, Bell (the phone company) implements their various limitations
(such as bandwidth
Hi,
It was just a process of elimination really as I at first thought it
may be the router so bought another, result just the same and then
googling for clues before I spend an hour on the telephone to the help
line, when I got through the chap on the line wasnt able to give me a
satisfactory
Marc Sherman Wrote:
Mark Lanctot wrote:
The so-called independent ISPs around here just buy bandwidth from
the big two so that wouldn't help either.
That's true, but it's not the whole story. At least for DSL service in
Ontario, Bell (the phone company) implements their various
Dougal, do you know if Tiscali do anything similar to AlienBBC streams?
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I read on a blog recently that Tiscali had implemented some kind of
TCP/IP technology to disuade / prevent Torrent P2P users, and it was
that technology which seemed to be affecting legitimate audio streaming
apps. Can't remember for the life of me where (I aggregate a lot of
music, technology
If you're looking to change ISP in the UK I would strongly recommend you
take a look at http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ - they have a very good area
for comparing ISPs.
I've heard in the past of ISPs downgrading your link if they detect
filesharing traffic, but this is the first time I've heard of
Hi,
I presume that it is a port 3483 issue as all other media players on
the PC don't seem to be affected and can stream all day without
problems.
Doug.
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Dougal
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Why 3483? That's only used for internal communications between
slimserver and the squeezebox.
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radish
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This really isn't a surprise. There's been a lot of talk lately about
ISPs using traffic/packet shaping. There are now commercial routers
manufactured to do this automatically.
The question was asked, I'm wondering what purpose it would serve the
ISP. Did they do this to try to block P2P? If
avaloncourt Wrote:
It's a matter of controlling bandwidth, plain and simple. P2P and media
eat up massive amounts of providers' bandwith so they are actively
targeting packets being used for that purpose along with VoIP. This
goes hand in hand with the new attempts by Verizon to create a
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