Bell Sympatico Throttles Internet Access

Bell Sympatico, Canada's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) has admitted in November 2007 that it "purposely" slows down its high-speed DSL, especially for torrents. This is despite them not telling customers. This video is a customers story.

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News & Politics

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• Bell
• Canada
• Consumer
• rights
• Internet
• Net
• neutrality

[PeakoChihuahua]

Thanks for the resources and letting us know that we're not alone on this. Some people such as myself depend on their internet not just for recreation but to survive. I work from home and I've had problems with my internet since day 1. Bell has the monopoly in my area so there are no competitors. Between 2pm and 12am it usually downloads anywhere from 0.3Mbps to 0.7Mbps. Roughly 5% what is advertised. Today it started at 10am. I'm working on an anti-Bell site. Will keep you posted.

[leaf16nut]

I have a 100Mbps connection, and download between 400-500kbps...

Fucking horrible!

Bell contacted me awhile ago and fucked me out of my unlimited downloads as well, stupid move on my part for agreeing to it! I'm thuinking of going to Rogers, especially with this new "fibe" scam Bell is bullshitting everybody with..

[JACKxTHExRIPPER]

hahhahaha, well i was trying to watch this video about how Bell slows down your internet, but my bell internet is going to slow to load the video

[Vagextrol]

@slanga786 Good customer support ?? WTF you talking about ? It's a well known fact that Bell has a poor customer support. Seems you did not had any real problem ..or problem at all. Moron.

[lublutebya777]

My download speed with Bell is 1.37mbps, my upload speed is 0.40mbps, I don't think this is what they advertise to people, very slow!

[BlackOpsJohn]

fuck it

[dustruncom]

My connection is fast. 6Mbps/750KBps download.

If you want yours as fast it should be then stop using Bells DNS Servers and switch to OpenDNS od DynDNS Servers it by passes Sympaticos DNS.

Set it up in the Modem and the Computer.

Also this is a hack that can also get you free internet when unsubscribed or suspended, Cause Sympatico leaves the DSL connection on the line after account is closed or suspended and the DSL Signal can still be used if you know how to hack it.

[leerman22]

this practice is also called COMMUNISM!!!

[deathmatch101]

after 8pm my internet is slow as fuck i hate bell

[smokingclown]

@tinytory Just saying, Your paying for 16 MegaBITS not 16 MegaBYTES .... 8 bits = 1 byte. So, if you use a 16 Mbits/sec connection, your speed should be around 2 MBytes/sec.