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Rogers: It's official, they suck!

I left Rogers over a year ago and I'm glad I did because recent testing shows they are the worst Internet throttler in Canada, by far!

Quote below from the article linked to above:
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Here are the most recent results for Canadian ISPs and the percentage of connections they throttled in the first quarter of 2010:
Shaw: 14%
Bell: 16%
Rogers: 78%
Telus: 6%
Videotron: 3%
Bell Aliant: 6%
Cogeco: 46%
Sasktel: 5%
MTS: 6%
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Are you joking me? Rogers throttled 78 per cent of their connections? Just pathetic.

I don't see how this is any different than the recent Groupon scandal where 'discounted' prices were really prices based on inflated prices. Sure we'll give you 50 per cent off something that we've marked up 50 per cent.
Anyway, Rogers advertises certain speeds but clearly you better not expect to get those speeds. You might get them at two-o'clock in the morning, but otherwise forget it. 
I don't know if Roger's thought it would never get caught - to my knowledge they continue to say publicly that they do not throttle - but the jig is up. Time to either stop throttling or be honest with your customers that you will prohibit their use of certain applications, including online gaming, to curtail their bandwidth usage. 



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