Rogers Throttling Traffic?

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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