Comments on: Canadian ISP is throttling BitTorrent traffic

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:50 +0000

I just got charged two $30 charges for overusageâ€¦ I was on contract for 3 years (extending every year) and nobody told me this feb that I was going to be charged for extra bandwidthâ€¦ I hate telecom in canada we’re worse then a 3rd world countryâ€¦ i hope that bell and rogers burn in hellâ€¦

we’re paying more for high speed then 10 years agoâ€¦ i remember rogers was $45 and was faster then it is nowâ€¦ its brutal

By: wally

wally — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:04:04 +0000

http://www.blogto.com/tech/2008/03/rogers_now_with_more_bullshit_and_baseball/

By: Ironic Title » Blog Archive » Rogers Continues to Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, Despite Contentious Pricing Scheme

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:24:10 +0000

[...] was one of the early adopters of BitTorrent traffic shaping. The first reports date back to 2005, and last year Rogers even decided to block all encrypted traffic, just to make sure that [...]

By: Rogers Continues to Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, Despite Contentious Pricing Scheme at IDTorrent Blog

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:26:22 +0000

[...] was one of the early adopters of BitTorrent traffic shaping. The first reports date back to 2005, and last year Rogers even decided to block all encrypted traffic, just to make sure that [...]

By: Rogers: chi scarica di piÃ¹ paga di piÃ¹, intanto filtra ancora i pacchetti BitTorrent | Il Blog di NonSoloP2P

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:57:55 +0000

[...] uno dei primi utilizzatori del filtraggio del traffico BitTorrent Le prime relazioni risalgono al 2005, e lo scorso anno anche Rogers ha deciso di bloccare tutto il traffico criptato, per assicurarsi [...]

By: Rogers Continues to Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, Despite Contentious Pricing Scheme | TorrentFreak

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:51:07 +0000

[...] was one of the early adopters of BitTorrent traffic shaping. The first reports date back to 2005, and last year Rogers even decided to block all encrypted traffic, just to make sure that [...]

By: The Canadian People vs. Bell & Rogers: An open letter to Jim Prentice « RU-FI-OOOOOH!

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:28:05 +0000

[...] far as I’m concerned, we’ve been way overdue for such a debate.Â Rogers Canada’s traffic shaping practice, and now Bell’s, has gone on long enough.Â South of the border, Comcast has buckled [...]

By: sd

sd — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:46:00 +0000

I don’t appreciate Rogers telling me what I can and cannot do, i purchased a service with no restrictions and i expect to receive that service.

Why are they targeting just p2p websites, why not target all illegal internet activities such as child pornography. If Rogers wants to act as an internet cop they can’t just pick and chose their battles.

This will slowly undermine the net neutrality concept in which the internet was founded on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000

rogers sucks ass. we should mount a class action suit

By: AluminumHaste

AluminumHaste — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:58:53 +0000

Well guys it’s this simple; I am paying ~40$ a month for 5Mb ADSL from MNSI, which unfortunately uses Bell’s DSlans so yeah, I’m going to get screwed here.

So what my problem is, when you pay for unlimited usage (no bandwidth cap) for 5Mb service, you technically are being told that everyone who bought this can, at the same time, download at around 540KB/s without stopping constantly all day all night forever. If not then they are overselling their network and lying to their customers. Even if it’s not MNSI’s fault that Bell is caping bandwidth on common BitTorrent ports, it still affects the end user.

Whenever a game patch is out, or when SP2 for xp came out, and SP1 for Vista and SP3 for XP comes out, I will only download via torrent, because unlike dedicated file servers which can only handle a couple of hundred users at a time, torrents actually get faster. So yeah, everybody wins except ISP’s who have to pay for that bandwidth.

This is, to put it gently, totally fucking bullshit.