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Originally Posted by Ignition
I guess you aren't a big fan of the fact ntl are legally obliged to be able to monitor your phone calls at any time.
It's bull on zero levels, your IP traffic isn't protected by any legal statute and no record is made of the contents of the packets merely the protocol being used.
Think outside of the OSI 7 layer model and you're there. The traffic shaping gear will know you were using Bittorrent, it won't have stored which torrent you were using. To gain knowledge of exactly which torrent you are downloading is to assume legal responsibility for your behaviour (being aware of exactly what a customer is doing suggests responsibility for it) and puts ntl at legal risk.
I hope this in some small way reassures. Yes ntl will be able to tell that you were using Bittorrent, VoIP, http, etc, however the actual contents of those sessons remains a mystery.
The only reason for the packet inspection is because a layer 4 lookup on the protocols is trivial to avoid.
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Ok, I understand that NTL will only be looking at the protocols and ports its users are using and that this is done on a machine level. But I’m still concerned about how this general data is used. IF it is only used to prioritise time sensitive traffic like VoIP than that’s fine. But if it is used in the way I described in a previous post:
- restrict traffic to destination X over destination Y because NTL has some deal with Y.
- use or sell the data for marking purposes.
- charge different rates for different data types.
My electricity supplier doesn't care if I'm watch TV or mowing the lawn. They charge for what I use.
My water supply is unmetered, but even if it wasn't the water company wouldn't monitor if I was taking baths or showers.
I want an ISP that can provide me with a connection to the internet, what’s so hard about that?
If NTL needs to change its business model or pricing to remain profitable so be it. But currently I pay for a connection. That connection is
capable of 10MB download and 512k upload, subject to a fair use policy of 75GB per month.
NTL need to inform me if that changes.