en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/306138 Comments by Scott Thornton http://torrentfreak.com/all-major-canadian-isps-slow-down-p2p-traffic-090120/#IDComment14201791 I simply can't understand why this throttling practice is accepted and commonplace amongst the Canadian ISPs. I'm currently with Rogers and have a cap on my bandwidth of X GB/month, and am charged a hefty premium for using more than my "fair share". Does it make any sense that they have "traffic management" tactics to throttle power users, limiting the increased revenue they see from these premiums? I don't understand their business perspective here. Why not let the P2P users fill their boots (and their DL/UL quotas), and rake in the added revenue. Throttling the power users is only going to create more customer dissatisfaction and dissent. The only people it may appear to help, are the casual users (who most likely won't even notice the improved performance of their email and/or browsing), or the tech support staff at the ISPs themselves. (But you might think that the added revenue from the P2P users would more than cover any extra infrastructure investment they need to make). Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:00:46 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/all-major-canadian-isps-slow-down-p2p-traffic-090120/#IDComment14201791