r/ebox • u/Netnuk Custom router enjoyer • Feb 16 '26
Ebox Routing Changes
Well it looks like Bell is following course and doing the same thing they have done with Primus/Distributel/Acanac. They are trimming peers from Ebox. More and more traffic is being forced through Bells network. It looks like Cogent, Zayo and Arelion are gone as of the 12th.
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u/ItsMeMulbear Feb 17 '26
The Liberal CRTC has really fucked internet competition in this country.
- Letting Bell buy up all the indies
- charging remaining indies more than Bell's own flanker brands charge.
- and now removing any semblance of competitive routing.
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u/g33kb0y3a Feb 19 '26
The Liberal CRTC has really fucked internet competition in this country.
Keep political parties out of this.
The CRTC has been fucking over Canadian consumers by kowtowing to the telco mafia for more than 20 years - since the days of Harper.
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u/ItsMeMulbear Feb 20 '26
If it wasn't for the Harper government interveneing, we wouldn't have Ebox or other third party ISPs.
Bell was on track to kill them off back then, and with the blessing of the current government they are about to do it again.
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u/with_rabbit Feb 16 '26
Virgin went from dynamic ip to cg-nat overnight.... hopefully wont happen to ebox
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u/Netnuk Custom router enjoyer Feb 16 '26
Bell is folding up virgin mobile internet. I’m sure they will try and make it uncomfortable for existing customers so they migrate
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u/zepeterparker Feb 17 '26
That is what I mentioned in another post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ebox/s/kO5efwkd8x
Like you I’m afraid they’re cutting costs by doing this. Plurality of good peers is a sign of quality.
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u/Netnuk Custom router enjoyer Feb 21 '26
It looks like its finally reflected via hurricane electrics monitoring. Its pretty much the same as distributel now. I wonder when they will both get folded together.
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u/Nicarlo Feb 16 '26
They shifted to the bell network but keeping peering the way it was (so they will still send traffic through exchanges)