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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That fricken sucks!
(Giving Rogers the Finger)
Geist has talked about this in a few posts lately.
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.
Scratch that.
Giving the CRTC the finger.
Of course they aren’t “blocking” encrypted traffic. They are just shaping it down to nothing. It’s all in the semantics.
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.
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