| Here We Go Again... I dont think anyone believes that Rogers is not only interfering with P2P downloads, but interfering with connections too. I've seen it with my own eyes as torrents drop in speed dramatically as connections are dropped. And this is new, started in Sept or Oct depending on where you live.
At first I thought that the rollout of SpeedBoost was to blame as for me, when Speedboost showed up is when torrents seem to get flakey.and I thought this would be a temporary problem that would get sorted out.
I have a new theory now...Netflix.
Think about it, people....in the US, Netflix now accounts for 20% of ALL net usage in the evening hours.Assuming that Canada is now roughly the same % ( no figures are available yet), suddenly we have panicking ISPs watching their network usage numbers going through the roof during peak usage periods.
In Rogers case, they decided to fire up their trusty throttle boxes to limit P2P downloads again and in true fashion will not admit it.Any of us who were around when throttling first started about 5 years ago remember the way they woudnt admit it for ages.
At least now, we know what it is. Like I said, only a theory, but I'll bet that's what this is all about.Everything adds up, the timing and the response.
And with Rogers being able to inflict their throttling and caps on resellers next year some time, I must say things are looking rather bleak at the moment. |
