Comments on: Rogers Continues to Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, Despite Contentious Pricing Scheme

By: bell sucks

bell sucks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:26:54 +0000

dropped bell today, they have shaped traffic for close to a year, broke my contract without telling me, throttled so called “unlimited” account and now they have introduced this new b.s. 60gb cap per month with traffic shaping. i am urging all canadians to drop the monopolistic companies and go with the small providers. bell and rogers are are anti-competitive, anti-consumer and anti-net neutrality conglomerates that need to be kicked in the teeth with our pocket books.

By: Chaos

Chaos — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:58:02 +0000

I would have quit Rogers LONG ago, but in Canada its basically an oligopoly/monopoly. Rogers has the best speed and charges big $$ for it, and is pathetic compared to other countries. Rogers owns the cable lines all around the city (Toronto). They can shaft their customers in every orifice and they would have little choice. Bell owns all the phone lines, and offers DSL with slightly slower speeds, with that whole painful dial up process (i think).

I am really hoping an American company like at&t, verison, or whoever, comes up here and lays some fiber lines and starts offering decent internet.

By: Bratok

Bratok — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:23:17 +0000

Because Canada is freaking village. Monopoly is everywhere. No alternative and no competition. They do what they want with the customers, because they know you have nowhere to go. Even gas stations. Before they were selling all different prices. Now—all the same.I hate them, and I hate that I can’t change anything!

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By: songs

songs — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:51:59 +0000

songs…

Have a nice trip!…

By: Pixie

Pixie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:31:46 +0000

I live in Windsor and in my area the only choices for me are Bell, Rogers, and stupid Cogeco (which is the worse of the three!) It seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel for a lowly bittorent user like myself. Something needs to be done. Any suggestions? There is no reason this should be happening. I pay for unlimited internet. I expect that product to be delivered.

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By: Dane

Dane — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:00:27 +0000

It’s sad to say, but this is the norm in Australia. I’ve just been sent a letter from my ISP threatening to disconnect me because I consistently use more than my download allowance (which can only be described as 4 GB of fun!)

By: ELCouz

ELCouz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:19:46 +0000

TEKSAVVY is now throttled (use Bell lines, which throttle any resellers)since 2 weeks… jeez read the news at dslreports BEFORE switching to another ISP

By: DakE_FeatH

DakE_FeatH — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:55:00 +0000

[quote comment="339687"]Seems like Rogers is run by some very intelligent managers. Removing Flat-Rates, blocking encrypted traffic, throttling bittorrent…

I mean c’mon are you serious. Who wants a provider like that? Do they still have any customers at all?[/quote]

Yes they do, cuz they are the major ISP unfortunately…

By: DakE_FeatH

DakE_FeatH — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:50:53 +0000

[quote comment="339165"]ummm time for techsavvy.ca[/quote]

Definitely man, I will switch to techsavvy. Thanks for the website!

By: DakE_FeatH

DakE_FeatH — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:36:56 +0000

It’s stupid that they count both your download and upload usage. That simply defeats the purpose of sharing, that they advertise.

I’m not sure if they throttle bittorrent, I have decent speeds on public trackers and very good speeds on private trackers. What I hate them for is their stupid limit. Why only 100 GB for the highest service, with 18Mbps download!?! I have the 3rd option (Express) and the limit is 60GB! WTF!?!

Since April 1 to April 11 alone i used 161.17 GB, and according to them, I need to pay an extra of $202.00 :-/ . They say the maximum they will charge is up to $25, starting from June. But that’s $25 extra for doing exactly what they advertise … AND they have no plans to introduce Fibre Optic Internet anytime soon…(probably they will make it $200/mo) Bastards…

By: dcd

dcd — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:19:47 +0000

Wow so f*cked up limits in CA :( Thank god i live in Finland with 10mb/3mb connection without any quota and paying for 33e /mth.

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:01:58 +0000

Damn that is fucking expensive even for the lower end packs. 60 Gb for 40 bucks? I hit that just through basic (legal) music download services and with a voip.

By: Rogers Slave

Rogers Slave — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:05:31 +0000

So what are our options in Canada?

By: Superbuddha

Superbuddha — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:28:22 +0000

I am from Toronto, using Rogers. The dl speed had been terrific. Then I got the letter about the new pricing scheme. A few days later I got a message from Rogers when I opened the browser (a pop up thing) telling me that I had exceeded the monthly limit. I clicked the acknowledge button and the next day on, dl speed has been pathetic. That was the worse thing done in my life. If I did not click the button, I might still be getting good dl speed until Rogers enforced the pricing scheme in June. Paying accodring to the total amount of dl is fair, but as everyone has said, throttling the speed isn’t. Unfortunately, all these ISPs are in consort with one another and poor consumers like us really do not have any choice. They all throttle.

By: Mr. S

Mr. S — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:21:05 +0000

Yurray for Portugal. Almost every ISP offers unlimited national and international traffic.

By: jello

jello — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:28:43 +0000

gotta love shaw, 25/1mbit, $93.. 150GB b/w limit but i exceed that and go to over 350 on average, sometimes even over 500. also they dont block torrents like rogers does, so torrenting for me is fine. :)

By: gogo

gogo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:35:31 +0000

Rogers customers need to make a statement with their money, take your business elsewhere if possible… if not you might be encouraging other ISP’s to follow suit.

2gb/$25 +$5 for every GB over allotment is outrageous for an entry level package… might as well be on dial-up for those limitations.

By: iGama

iGama — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:12:11 +0000

Price :

39â‚¬ for : “24Mbps”/512Kbps line cap at 60 GB + Phone