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The government could help speed up your Internet connection
Some providers are being accused of doing it on purpose
John Ackermann VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) | Monday, July 6th, 2009 7:37 am
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Hearings starting today in Ottawa could help speed up your online experience. Regulators are investigating complaints that some providers are slowing down web speeds on purpose.

Internet service providers use a number of technologies to direct and prioritize online traffic as the Internet grows more and more congested.

Jacob Glick with the Open Internet Coalition, which represents Google, Amazon, Skype, and eBay, tells the Globe and Mail he hopes the CRTC can set out some fair ground rules on what is and isn't fair.

However, a senior VP with Rogers thinks the web is still too new for such blanket regulations and figures this should be handled on a case-by-case basis.

This all comes after Bell was accused last year of slowing down traffic, a practice it maintains is necessary to limit the effects of peer-to-peer networking on its overall capacity.

http://news1130.com/news/local/more....06_103250_8744


it doesn't sound like it would demand faster infrastructure, etc.... but more like bitching at throttling