Guidelines for Broadband Providers in India proposed by Gregory House

This is in reply to your first post in the topic:1. That deimal/binary bit is more applicable to the Hard Disk manufacturers, they are the ones that use decimals instead of binary to represent the size of their drives, the ISPs always follow binary, the speed is just set lower than advertised and the upto bit is used to get away with it.2. If you ask me, in my definition Broadband is speeds in excess of 5Mbps in todays world(lived in Canada to get that feeling), but even 1.5Mbps is the bare minimum one should consider calling "broadband" the rest below it should be plain "High speed" except dial-up of course.3. I somewhat agree on that point, instead the should clearly explain what contention ratio is to begin with, but that is all fine print, sales target wouldn't be achieved otherwise.4. I have already commented on DPI in that thread, you know what i think of it. :P On that port blocking bit, if it is necessary then it should be done, most ISPs in the US block outgoing on port 25 to prevent bot nets from spamming.5. Airtel does refund you in terms of credit in the next bill for downtime etc, within certain limits, that in my opinion is sufficient, that 3 days is like putting a gun to their heads and saying pay up!6. This line of thinking was proposed by the TRAI at the beginning of the year, dunno if it took effect or not, i read it in one of the threads of this forum, can't remember which one though.
 
I doubt if any isp in india is using DPI .. Common they have heck lot of problem with dumb technical support let alone maintaing DPI . I agree though that they throttle down speeds of some users completely .That Rocky Balboa part will really be due to some notice by MPAA on their fake torrents
 
u werent intended receipient either :p

i was very much an intended recipient...the owner of the mail forwarded it to me :)

I can think of only one way he could have got that notice.
Fake torrent + MPAA lackeys (MediaDefender?) + threat to ISP = notice.


it was P2P (Gnutella)...and yes, MGM guys sent a notice to the ISP and then the ISP to the user...
 
but the question is how can bsnl (ISPs maintain logs on ip addresses issued, the time it is issued, and the duration. These are maintained for at least six months)do that because they are using Dynamic IP.
 
The kind of ip that the ISP is providing is immaterial. Whether static or dynamic, the ISP always knows the person who/ modem/ router/ telephone which initiated the connection, the time connection was initiated and the time it was disconnected.

It is immaterial whether you are using dial up, cable or any other internet - the principal is the same. They have to bill you for hours used don't they? Even if you are on some unlimited plan, the traffic is passing through their servers. They have plenty of opportunity to record the details. And legally they are required to.

Say, you write some threatening letter to someone, how will they trace you - through the ip. Expecting anonymity on the net is crazy. If it is really necessary, the person with the necessary legal backing can trace you to your doorstep even if he has only an ip and a time of access.

If you really want to be anonymous, use services like anonymizer or better still use Tor (The Onion Ring/Router Project).
Tor: anonymity online

Apparently even that is not safe. See these articles:
Tor hack proposed to catch criminals
Tor hack reports downplayed by developers.

The best thing would be not to do anything that would not require anonymity. But this is a stupid solution to the how to remain anonymous on the internet problem.
 
one think is sure that isps know even outside in india that if they stop all illegal stuff the more than 60% of traffic will be less and they dont want that
 
umm. isps would love low traffic... :|they are scared of youtube, joost, bbc iplayer, torrents, p2p... for the same reason. ;)
 
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