QUOTE(sol_badguy @ Nov 21 2010, 12:30 PM)
Bittorent is a legal service. The contents of shared files via bittorent might be illegal, but bittorent, in of itself, is legal. Open source software for instance, are being distributed through it. If the ISP decide to throttle the software itself, while the user had not exceed its monthly quota bandwidth, then the ISP is not adhering to its own fair usage policy. I could understand that P1 Wimax feels the need to limit its bandwidth usage, but doing the throttling before users exceed the given bandwidth quota can be considered as a breach of trust, if not breach of agreement more so.
The term and agreement explicitly stated that users are given a certain quota of bandwidth to use, and if the the bandwidths are being used up before the end of the month, then ISP have the right to impose a traffic throttling.
Another clause in the terms and agreements is that the service is being provided at "best effort" basis. I don't quite remember the details, but "best effort" basis means that the ISP should provide the speed not slower than the 70% of the advertised speed. I think thats the guideline laid down by MCMC.
Regardless of the legality of the contents, bittorent is a legal service. As such, the ISP that throttling bittorent deprive its user on their overall internet experience and can be deemed for not providing its internet service at "best effort" basis.
If not mistaken, the TnC also mentions they will manage P2P activity on top of the fair usage policy.The term and agreement explicitly stated that users are given a certain quota of bandwidth to use, and if the the bandwidths are being used up before the end of the month, then ISP have the right to impose a traffic throttling.
Another clause in the terms and agreements is that the service is being provided at "best effort" basis. I don't quite remember the details, but "best effort" basis means that the ISP should provide the speed not slower than the 70% of the advertised speed. I think thats the guideline laid down by MCMC.
Regardless of the legality of the contents, bittorent is a legal service. As such, the ISP that throttling bittorent deprive its user on their overall internet experience and can be deemed for not providing its internet service at "best effort" basis.
And the 70% advertised speed is only applicable to fixed broadband and not wireless broadband - someone mentions this before last time.
The tricky part for all the wireless broadband provider is that they always advertise as "UP TO 1 Mbps", if the speed is 500kbps it's also as according to their advertised speed and it's fall under the 70% as well.
I believe not just torrenting, file sharing also being controlled by broadband provider nowadays.
StreamyX even took a step forward to throttle based on file type.
I can understand why Wireless Broadband providers do that because their wireless station has limited bandwidth due to the frequency spectrum but StreamyX is a fixed line provider
Nov 21 2010, 12:44 PM

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