said by Rogers_Chris:Hi, this is Chris from Rogers. I'd like to share what we shared with Torrentfreak yesterday.
There seems to be quite a bit of confusion over changes made to Rogers Hi Speed network management that I'm hoping I can help clarify.
We recently started to receive customer complaints regarding degradation in upload and download speeds after we made the latest update to our software.
Let me assure you that Rogers Hi Speed does not manage download traffic. As stated in our policy we only manage upstream traffic of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing at 80 Kbps.
Although not intended, extensive testing has confirmed that we are now managing upstream traffic for some secure protocols running over non-standard ports while doing P2P. Testing also indicated that this had been happening for some time but we had not received any complaints until recently, possibly because this type of usage is fairly uncommon.
We have been in communication with the CRTC. They are aware of the situation and we have been working through the standard processes. Customers can expect Rogers Network Management Policy to be updated shortly to reflect the change, which is in line with current industry standard used by other large ISPs and in line with CRTC disclosure requirements. Specifically, our published network management policy will be amended to clarify that we sometimes manage upstream traffic for some secure protocols running over non-standard ports while doing P2P.
Again, let me repeat that we do not manage downstream traffic.
Thanks,
Chris Clarke, Rogers Social Media
www.twitter.com/rogers_chris
Basically, you now screw everyone as soon as p2p is involved at all.
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