Exetel宣布进行为期5天的网络过滤测试

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Later today Exetel will commence a short (5 day) trial of what isclaimed to be a non-intrusive internet site filtering system. By'non-intrusive' is meant something that a user will not notice in termsof any browsing or file downloading speed differences.

The reason that Exetel is doing this trial is that our belief to dateis that any future mandatory internet site 'filtering' will imposesignificant costs on Exetel and significant slow downs on ourcustomers. Since the current Labor Federal Government announced itsintentions to impose some form of internet censorship we have looked atvarious ways that we could implement it (should it ever becomenecessary) at the lowest possible cost and with the lowest possiblespeed degradation. To date, our view has been that no such solutionexists.

We are trialing the one possible solution that, while certainly costingan ISP a significant amount of money, claims to have almostzero/actually zero affect on a user's speeds of service. Havingdiscussed with the vendor why this would be possible we can see itcould be feasible. We will, later today, turn on this 'filter' and willmake our own observations on how much, if at all, speeds are affectedfor our whole user base. Our confident expectation is that no Exetelcustomer will notice, or be subject to, any speed degradation and wealso doubt that any Exetel customer will experience a 'blocked site'.

Our sole purpose in running this trial is to put ourselves in aposition to deal with any future imposed content filtering systemimposed by the Australian Labor party by conforming to any legalrequirement without imposing seed degradation on our customers.

While we are confident that 99.999% of our customers will neithernotice a speed difference once the trial starts nor will have any pagesblocked please log a fault in the normal way if you do encounter anydifficulty or report blocked pages here:

http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=31829

Regards

Exetel network Engineering

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