Chile Forum

El Zorro wrote:Are you being facetious, or you really believe that? If your ISP is not capable—or willing—to handle such speed, I’d be skeptical.

BTW, can anybody be overly educated? You know what I mean.

article from the Santiago Times wrote:<snip>
Independent Democratic Union (UDI) Dep. Gonzalo Arenas this week accused internet services providers (ISPs) in
Chile of "deceptive advertising." He cited their failure to fulfill advertised promises to "double or
triple" broadband speed at no additional cost to customers.
Arenas said service providers have no obligation to maintain a minimum speed. They may raise and lower speeds freely,
so speeds are only doubled or tripled for short periods.

José Huerta, director of "Neutrality, yes," a campaign to pressure the government to regulate
"restrictive practices of internet service providers," explained that, although ISPs raised download speeds,
upload speeds have remained the same. The upload-download differential limits the use of bandwidth-intensive
processes, such as peer-to-peer downloading.

ISPs also use other "traffic shaping" practices, such as "TCP Resets," in which the
connection is momentarily cut, interrupting bandwidth-intensive communication and download processes.

According to Congressman Arenas, ISPs use these methods to control bandwidth use so they can oversell the capacity
of their broadband network.

VUZE, the world leader in peer-to-peer download technology, has studied which ISPs interfere most in client
connections and has ranked VTR, a leading Chilean ISP, as the 23rd worst in the world. Several other important Chilean
ISPs are included on VUZE's list.
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mistertk wrote:Barely usable? It might just be a temporal situation, since the videos normally load instantly. Here we have Telsur 4MB btw (everything was also perfect when I had half of that speed). When I was with VTR from 2004-2006 the service was OK, although I can say that P2P download speeds with my current ISP go way better.