Rogers Throttling the Internet

[geokilla]

3 hours ago, before I got a new modem, my download speeds were at 220KB. Now, after setting up the new modem I get 0! Yes, 0! So I did some googling and found out that Rogers started doing this since the beginning of February. I called tech support and found out that this throttling was done on purpose.

Is there a way to get past this throttling?? This simply isn't fair for us consumers! Usually it takes me 20min to download a complete episode of anime, but in 1 hour, I have only 3MB completed!!

The sad thing is that I can't go to Bell because of bad previous experience. If things continue like this, Rogers is going to lose a LOT of customers in the next few months.

Rogers and Bell = Canadian ISP

 

[MegaVovaN]

Networking forum

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Sorry to hear that OP

 

[geokilla]

Gave Rogers a call just now. The guy said that the throttling was to stop people from downloading illegal software. Well that's stupid.....

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: geokilla
Gave Rogers a call just now. The guy said that the throttling was to stop people from downloading illegal software. Well that's stupid.....

Stupid that you're downloading illegal software? Yeah it is.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: geokilla
Gave Rogers a call just now. The guy said that the throttling was to stop people from downloading illegal software. Well that's stupid.....

Stupid that you're downloading illegal software? Yeah it is.

Your username contains a copyrighted name from the Peanuts comic!!!

That's really no stupider than what you said. Think about it.

 

[corkyg]

Also, posting the same nonsense on two forums is not cool. Who the hell is Rogers?

 

[geokilla]

I'm not downloading illegal software....wtf...I'm downloading anime....aka fansubs.

I realized that I posted it in the wrong section of the forum so I posted another one here.....I was full of rage when I posted it.

 

[UnTech]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Who the hell is Rogers?

I don't know maybe he should have put a Mr. in front of that.

 

[geokilla]

Clearly says it's my ISP....

 

[adairusmc]

Sounds like you need to take the time and read the terms and conditions of the service.

We do the same thing to our customers, except we limit each customer to 33.6kbit for all file sharing services.

 

[geokilla]

Ya, they only started doing this recently. Recently as in a few months ago. I've been using Rogers for ISP since like 2003.

 

[Rubycon]

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[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: geokilla
Gave Rogers a call just now. The guy said that the throttling was to stop people from downloading illegal software. Well that's stupid.....

Stupid that you're downloading illegal software? Yeah it is.

Your username contains a copyrighted name from the Peanuts comic!!!

That's really no stupider than what you said. Think about it.

1st result on a google search for "Linus" is Linus

 

[tapir]

If you're trying to use BitTorrent, use the encryption feature of Azureus to get around ISP throttling


for legal files only, of course :thumbsup:

 

[DrMrLordX]

Rogers has thought of that already:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/07/1755230

 

[idiotekniQues]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX
Rogers has thought of that already:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/07/1755230

they obviously didnt think too hard about it

 

[oynaz]

Well, get another ISP.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: oynaz
Well, get another ISP.

haha, no kidding. nobody is forcing you to use them.

 

[ch33zw1z]

do they throttle FTP? :thumbsup: for private sharing if they haven't.

 

[Markbnj]

We're going to see more and more of this, and nothing is going to head it off completely. Not laws, and not public outrage. The last mile is the hard part in connectivity. They built it, and they own it. Companies like Rogers have begun to realize how much power they have, and how little real competition. It's the same motivation that has players like Verizon and Comcast musing over selling faster consumer connectivity to content providers that pay them for it.

Until every packet has about four or five high-speed ways to get to your house, they are calling the shots. All that fiber between major hubs doesn't mean crap.

 

[Aikouka]

I believe I'm also having the same problem with my ISP. Speeds are so random that the service is practically unreliable. I do use BitTorrent, but it's rare and I'm not downloading Adobe.CS3.SUPAR.CRAX-Windowz (aka warez). I don't care if they decide to limit all BitTorrent traffic to say... 20k/s, although not all torrent traffic is bad. Blizzard uses BitTorrent to send out World of Warcraft patches and how fun is it to have your Internet be so bad, that you have to download a 200mb patch at 10k/s? This is even extracting the torrent from their downloader, using uTorrent with forced encryption and disabling incoming legacy connections (which I actually have to enable when getting Blizzard patches since most people use the Blizz downloader which doesn't support encryption).

Slowing my entire connection down hinders any work I'd like to do and possibly some WoW-age .

 

[sjandrewbsme]

Here's another point of view....

I use my internet for gaming and general browsing. I don't do P2P or torrent. As such, I would love for my ISP (concast) to throttle speeds like this to keep my ping <500. Every time we have a bandwidth increase, my ping goes up by a factor of 100 as their infrastructure can't support all the traffic.

I realize this is a false dilemma to a certain extent (i.e. I shouldn't be forced to choose). But - it's the reality of my (and others) ISP.

 

[Boyo]

:roll:

 

[sjandrewbsme]

I guess all I'm saying is that when forced to choose, I would take 1 mbit lag free internet over 100 mbit 1000ms ping internet every day of the week.

 

[Ausm]

WTf does this have to do with General hardware?


Ausm