Archive for the 'Net Neutrality' Category

• 12.12.07 Rogers & Content Substitition posted in Net Neutrality

  The Canadian ISP, Rogers, is inserting content into the web pages of its customers. In effect, Rogers is, probably, illegally intercepting the content destined for a user and modifying it to display information some of which looks like an advertisement. In the case that’s been cited the most, the webpage that was hijacked was Google, [...]

• 11.5.07 Bell Sympatico Traffic Shaping posted in Canada, Net Neutrality, News Monitor, P2P

  Bell Sympatico is now admitting to traffic shaping during peak usage periods:
  “During peak periods of Internet usage, Internet Traffic Management is used to balance bandwidth fairly between P2P file sharing and other applications so that all customers receive fair use of the network”.
  For more see P2PNET.

• 9.8.07 Caught in the throttle posted in Canada, Net Neutrality, News Monitor

  The Ottawa Business Journal is reporting that Canadian ISP’s are “throttling” or “traffic shaping” in order to prioritize traffic. The primary target is actually to degrade performance for bittorrent traffic.
  In Canada, Rogers and Shaw in Vancouver have responded by reducing the high speed of users downloading and uploading (or seeding) torrents. Rogers admitted to [...]