The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission issued an order yesterday to Rogers Communications giving the internet provider until September 27 to formulate a plan to cease throttling online games such as
World of Warcraft, reports
the Calgary Herald. Noting that Rogers own traffic management policy states that "online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only be affected if Rogers misclassifies the games and other peer-to-peer applications were running at the same time." For its part, Rogers states it has corrected the issue with World of Warcraft and is "not aware of any problems with any other online games." Thanks
Ant via
Slashdot.
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Being from the UK it's interesting that I only ever hear about how terrible Rogers is and have never heard anything good about the company. I'm just glad there is a lot of ISP competition when I am and I don't have to worry about bandwidth caps or throttling, as I couldn't imagine being subject to a bandwidth cap - I download far too much, as I buy all my games through Steam, use Dropbox and watch a lot of streaming media. It's ridiculous that Rogers has download caps on its top tiers; afterall, a 250BG cap on 50MBit kinda defeats the point of having it and you'd easily burn through that in a shared house.
The US and Canada seem to be particularly bad for ISP restrictions, which relates to poor regulatory bodies. British Telecom used to have a monopoly in the UK but it was forced to sell off a lot of its infrastructure to bolster competition. |
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