The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission cited Rogers’ own policy, which claims that online games like World of Warcraft should not be throttled, in telling the company it has until Sept. 27 to present a plan that keeps WoW traffic, and that of other games, unthrottled.
The CRTC also reminded Rogers that it has instituted a policy that forbids Internet providers from throttling online traffic during peak hours without prior approval of the commission. In a statement Friday, Rogers said it had already corrected the problem with Warcraft traffic and wasn’t aware of problems with other games.
The directive against Rogers came after the Canadian Gamers organisation filed a complaint against Rogers last month, accusing the cable giant of deliberately throttling game traffic. Rogers said game traffic might have been “misclassified” by its network monitoring, especially if gamers were running other peer-to-peer communications alongside their gaming. The CGO scoffed at that explanation. CGO head Jason Koblovsky told the Calgary Herald he suspects the problem goes beyond Rogers, and he will ask the CRTC to widen its probe.
CRTC tells Rogers to stop slowing down the speed of online games [Calgary Herald via Blue's News]
RocK_M
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 9:38 AMGood on NZ and CGO!
I wish our own ACCC or whatever actually had some power to do this back in the days of Sol era Telstra where almost every internet connection on any area they didn’t upgrade (ie. almost ALL OF THEM) would just get shafted and throttled because of “high demand” during peak.
Funny how w/ NBN looming in the horizon Telstra suddenly got very busy upgrading a majority of their RIMs and whatnots as of the past two years or so..
Ryan
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 10:44 AMI despise Australian services; in England every company offers Unlimited internet. There is no such thing as capped or slowed down internet, regardless of demand or cost.
Cameron
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 12:18 PM*is moving to England now*
Zack
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 11:07 PMOr anywhere else in the world, Australia is one of the last stone age places left that has capped internet plans, everywhere else you just pick and pay for the speed and that is all, no download limit BS.
PlimpyD
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 1:01 PMAustralia’s telecommunication industry is a joke, not an amusing one might I add. When I can go to a third world country and have constant reception in a village yet be standing in a city in Australia staring at a mobile tower with little to no reception there’s a serious issue. Our infrastructure in regards to broadband and mobile reception is pitiful, even more so when you take into account how much we pay for these services. Oh and yes I’m with Optus (The modern day asshole of the telecommunications industry). :( *cries*
ed
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 2:06 PM“Oh and yes I’m with Optus”
Your previous sentences are now redundant, lol…
Now that Telstra [while by no means perfect!] have competitive pricing with Optus, I can safely say it was the best move I have ever made. Optus are cheap, but they make up that cost with little to no customer support, and almost no investment in backhaul at all. Of course the can offer super cheap 5GB/month plans, when it is impossible to even use it! lol
Reoh
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 4:27 PMEvery now and then Telstra call up and try to convince me to “change over” my internet. I tell them flat out I’m not in their league. If I’m bored I’ll run them through step by step why I’m getting twice the bandwidth for half the price they’re offering.
RocK_M
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 12:17 AMMeh… the last sucker who tried that on door to door.
I said “I have unlimited DL so unless you can match that don’t bother” The guy promptly left =P
Otacon
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 7:49 PMI would like to know which third world country you’re talking about. I’m with Telstra and I get reception everywhere. Even all along the Hume highway from Melbourne to Sydney but you would expect the busiest highway in Australia to have mobile coverage.
Franz
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 8:16 PMTwo Rogers don’t make a right
Dean
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 9:19 AMI recently switched from Optus to Dodo.
Same price/speed but no contract and no download limit.
Otacon
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 7:46 PMI’m on Telstra’s fastest broadband plan – 100mbps down but still some youtube videos don’t load as you would expect. I do watch them all in the higest quality available however at times I am forced to pause as I wait for the video to load. Could that be a result of throttling somewhere in the network?
Franz
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 4:20 PMSome videos are just messed up for no reason and load slowly, and I don’t think it’s because too many people are viewing it at the same time or anything though. Not sure what the cause is, might be something to do with the codecs/options chosen to encode/finish the video by the user before it was uploaded to youtube.