+ Shaw as an internet service provider has always been negative spirited. Nothing they offer is free of the squeeze. The squeeze that gets as much as possible, with the least altruism, and is geared like most corporations to get it done with little public outcry. Here’s a bit of an outcry from Techdirt.

It seems that many broadband providers have realized that they get attention for playing the “speed game.” They keep announcing faster broadband speeds, even if sometimes the announcements are a bit misleading. BroadbandReports calls Canadian cable company Shaw out for bragging about their speed increases while capping downloads at a paltry 30 gigs a month while also using traffic shaping apps to throttle BitTorrent usage. In other words: here’s your super fast cable broadband service, but you can’t actually use it for much.