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Originally Posted by photon
Hm, well with unlimited $$ they could get some hardware that would allow them to do traffic shaping, give the important traffic higher priority.
That's what big things like Shaw do, they have hardware that will do deep packet inspection and decide based on the content of the packet (as much as can be deduced anyway, if it's encrypted then it's more limited).
Blocking known proxy and tor IP's would still probably be the more effective, the difficulty is finding the right IPs to block.
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We already do traffic shaping in order to make sure that IPTV and VOIP get bandwidth priority, plus a certain level of bandwidth is guaranteed to each colony. Paid more than $15,000 for the appliance.
But the way I understand it Tor and other similar services operate over SSL, so the question is can Shaw, or any other big ISP company, actually prevent Tor from running if they do deep packet inspection.
From what I've read its a common problem that people are dealing with.