Comments on: Rogers Fights BitTorrent by Throttling All Encrypted Transfers

By: DSB

DSB — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:53:54 +0000

This kind of excessive control is in my opinion ridiculous or at the least overreacting. I live in Boston, and use comcast. They often block limewire, sometimes befoe I even use it. So, I capped limewire’s speed at 75 kbps, and they STIL block me occasionally. Sheesh, I know these can overload nodes, but don’t block completely, just throttle it down to something reasonable. If someone is downloading at 800 kbps and it’s flooding a node, then they should just throttle it to 200 kbps or somehting, not completely block it! Stuff goes faster, unfortunately ISP’s are too lazy to upgrade their equipement. And blockig/throttling all encrypted network traffic is ridiculous… A third of what the average person does is encrypted… Email, etc. And good luck to companies with VPN’s and network-over-internet stuff!! Those need speed, and are encrypted of course. Throttling all suspicious traffic is a violation of their speed claims, since if they advertise a speed, then it should be valid for all traffic, and caps should be done to that speed. Capping below an advertised speed is simply false advertising. If they can’t handle people going at an advertised, normal speed, then don’t they have an equipement problem? They are simply cuttig off a big chink of what people do on the internet… Soon they’ll be deciding what pages we can and can’t visit, like China… This trend needs to be stopped.

By: john

john — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:29:17 +0000

if you are in Toronto you are f*cked, there are no choices but Rogers and Bell. And if you live in a condo or apartment it is Rogers or bust. Talk about monopoly.

By: gtownwasp

gtownwasp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:30:40 +0000

Rogers(Bell) indeed is slowing (throttling ) internet high speed against contract.
I use high speed wireless portable other wise known as inukshuk.
Premium prices and now slower than dial up between 6 pm and twelve pm.
High speed in the arctic but none within eye site of the CN tower.Time for public boycott as rogers and Bell
are co managing the potable wireless
and the site near me is Bell managed.
No high speed here!

By: black jack magee

black jack magee — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:26:30 +0000

Rogers sucks plain and simple.
They are cutting the traffic because it costs a large amount of money to revamp the whole system so it handles the traffic properly. I’ve been told this plenty of times by their staff. They also took down their customers access to the usenet(news groups) services and then raised the price of their services. As of March 15/2008 they also decreased the GB cap limit on all accounts. Remember something people…..IT’S A COMPANY! It bought out the Blue Jays and even outsources their call centers to save money. All it’s concerned about is making money without giving out the proper services. The Blue Jays suck ass, and in the future they will be cutting down their GB cap limit even more. The only way to stop them is to cut your services completely. If that’s not an option then decrease the amount of services you have with them. Go with another cell phone provide(like virgin), change your internet plan, YOU DON’T NEED HIGH SPEED TO SURF THE NET. They burn fools into thinking you need their 5mbs package in order to send emails, surf or buy things from the net. YOU DON’T! The lite service will do. Stop complaining about them and do something about it, otherwise you fools will have no one to blame but yourselves.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:41:28 +0000

I was told, by Rogers’s techs, that I would receive unlimited access to the net however it would only be slower. I also asked if they slowed down any programs and was given a firm no as this would not be legal. I was asked why I this was a question? My response was that I had noticed a major difference with the same models of computers and different ISP download responses.
Now Rogers sends a custom notice that tells me that I have to accept a notice that I will be charged $5:00 per MB after June.
Not only has Rogers mislead me about my access time, they, in my opinion, hacked into Google and or distorted the intended page I was to search on. This is a breach of privacy as Rogers sent me an email telling me that I have illegally downloaded a patch from Microsoft. Microsoft had a different view. This same company creates a breach of another company’s software and calls it progression. I am also expected to click on a tab that will remove the notice from my computer. Note: Rogers always does things with addendums attached, by this way you agree to have your internet time knocked down to well below 50% while Rogers continues to profit off your money. This may truly be only a warning as stated by Rogers, however you must look at your own and hones dealings with Rogers to form your conclusion. I am moving all my services away from this company. The only action Rogers will understand is when ALL of this company’s customers decide to say that we have had our fill as we know this reaches beyond concessions. This reached dictation. Be the smart person you are, Speak through your wallet. Change services now, but don’t forget to ask questions and record your calls.
This works great. There are plenty great providers out there; you will trip over them the moment you steer away from Rogers.

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

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:26:40 +0000

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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:52:03 +0000

[...] shaping. The first reports date back to 2005, and last year Rogers even decided to block all encrypted traffic, just to make sure that BitTorrent protocol encryption didn’t [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:40:24 +0000

I just heard on the News here in Toronto this morning, News 680 am (a Rogers owned station) that Broadband in a couple of years will be non-existent due to teenagers downloading music and going onto video sites like YouTube.

Let me put on my Tin Foil hat. Rogers will slow down traffic on purpose to try and get everyone buy into their new fast pipeline. Which will be fast to the sites that pay them money and the ones that don’t well they’ll be like 56k slow. But Disney, CBC and CNN will be super fast.

This is called Net Neutrality. We really need to fight.

By: Blacklogic

Blacklogic — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:56:05 +0000

Use VPN.

http://blacklogic.com

By: some_joe

some_joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:04:09 +0000

here’s an idea, instead of limiting the amount of bandwidth there is in use, why not you know… increase the bandwidth? I know it’s not as easy as it sounds… but when us (as in the americans) are ranking 17-20th in terms of internet speed, someone is doing something wrong.