Sympatico forum administrator:

 ”We are now using a Internet Traffic Management to restrict accounts that are using a large portion of bandwidth during peak hours,” a Sympatico forum administrator wrote in response to a user complaint. The forum administrator also provides a list of affected applications, which includes BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, and other widely-used P2P applications. Readers of Broadband Reports had been suspicious for some time that the ISP was throttling traffic.

“Bell Sympatico has launched a solution to enhance the online customer experience and improve Internet performance for all our customers during peak periods of Internet usage with the introduction of Internet Traffic Management,” another response says. “There continues to be phenomenal growth of consumer Internet traffic throughout the world, and Bell is using Internet Traffic Management to ensure we deliver bandwidth fairly to our customers during peak Internet usage.”

Seven years ago, I was offered an ADSL solution from Bell Sympatico. After several months of patches installations sent by the company to get the speed they advertised, I stopped a Sympatico truck rolling on my street and asked him was wrong with my connection. He told me I lived to far away from their antenna. I switched to cable with Videotron and never looked back.