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Rogers Throttling Traffic?

April 12, 2007 BY Mark Evans

It’s not terribly well known but Rogers “massages” the packets on its high-speed networks so that P2P traffic gets bumped to the back of the line during particularly busy periods. Well, according to CrunchGear, Rogers has started to throttle all encrypted traffic – including secure e-mail – to control excessive bandwidth consumptions. Update: Rogers spokeswoman Taanta Gupta said the company is not blocking encrypted traffic. “We do traffic shape to ensure that time sensitive traffic – voice, e-mail, Web browsing – gets precedence. Been doing that for a couple of years.”

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  • Jeremy

    That fricken sucks!
    (Giving Rogers the Finger)

  • http://socialwrite.com Jevon

    Geist has talked about this in a few posts lately.

  • http://www.venicechronicles.com Shaun Rotman

    We need Geist to speak up on our behalf because this issue (going on for almost 2 years now!) has been given little deserved attention.

  • Jeremy

    Scratch that.
    Giving the CRTC the finger.

  • http://larryborsato.com Larry Borsato

    Of course they aren’t “blocking” encrypted traffic. They are just shaping it down to nothing. It’s all in the semantics.

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  • http://boycottrogers.com Boycott rogers admins

    If you plan on canceling your account or need help canceling your account, please feel free to use our site: boycottrogers.com. We’re trying to get all customers who care about net neutrality to send a big, loud message to Rogers that traffic shaping is just another way of angering clients.

    Leave a comment to announce your intent to cancel, and tell Rogers Management what they would have to do to prevent it.