Canadian ISP is killing MMO connections.

[Missing_Minds]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...red+Content%29


While not actually killing connection (though it might as well be), I figured that would be enough to get most people to have a look at the article.

[teh_meh]

I'm Canadian. Stop trying to bash us. You should be thanking us for trying to kick WoW players in the nads.

:P

[Westerner]

Especially interesting, is that the CRTC (Canada's telecom govt regulator) took up the fight with the ISP!

[Club'in]

I'm Canadian. Stop trying to bash us. You should be thanking us for trying to kick WoW players in the nads.

:P

I was not aware of a language barrier between us and Canada. How was this bashing? Seems to me Missing was just trying to give you guys a heads up on some possible B.S.

[Cam_Neely]

I'm Canadian. Stop trying to bash us.
:P

No, this is a bashing

http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/...gurative_wall/

(yes I was at the game)

[Missing_Minds]

I'm Canadian. Stop trying to bash us. You should be thanking us for trying to kick WoW players in the nads.

:P

I post a link about a Canadian ISP that could be hurting Canadian gamers...

and I'm bashing Canadians?

*facepalm* I think your post did more than I ever could.


edit: let alone, several countries are starting to have companies institute throttling caps. This issue is a fear for most gamers, honestly.

[teh_meh]

I was not aware of a language barrier between us and Canada. How was this bashing? Seems to me Missing was just trying to give you guys a heads up on some possible B.S.

Um...I finished my post with a :P

:P = not serious

If you neg repped me, take it back or I will hunt you down and spam you with water breathing!

:P

[Irinis]

I post a link about a Canadian ISP that could be hurting Canadian gamers...

and I'm bashing Canadians?

*facepalm* I think your post did more than I ever could.


edit: let alone, several countries are starting to have companies institute throttling caps. This issue is a fear for most gamers, honestly.

He's not Canadian he's from Argo. A real Canadian would have been nicer.

[Delt]

Rogers sucks. Shaw is just as bad. ISP's are pretty slim pickings for Canadians (even when you go with smaller providers like Novus, they are just a 3rd party supplier from Bell/Telus).

Canadians have it pretty bad -- and the governement isn't much help. CRTC is, from as far as I can tell, either corrupt or ineffective or both. CCTS is effective, but under-utilised (plus they can only really be used in matters directly relating to billing/monetary disputes).

Still, as long as most Canadians don't take up a voice as to how certain issues are handled (ie: telecommunication regulations, copyright reform, etc), they have no one to blame when they get screwed. Even that usage based billing from Bell almost made it through with barely a whimper. And bill C-32, pretty much just waiting for an effective date. /shrug

Edit: It looks like C-32 was scrapped recently.

[Club'in]

If you neg repped me, take it back or I will hunt you down and spam you with water breathing!

Nope, no negative rep from me. I'm not capable (you need to have a metric &#% ton of positive rep before you can dish out negative rep).

[Cap_Man]

Rogers sucks. Shaw is just as bad. ISP's are pretty slim pickings for Canadians (even when you go with smaller providers like Novus, they are just a 3rd party supplier from Bell/Telus).

Ah yes ... Rogers. A.K.A: Scum of the Earth ... my apologies to Scum everywhere.

I used to have my cable tv with them but switched off them years ago when they tried that reverse billing scam. They gave all their customers a bunch of extra channels no one wanted and then sent us the bill for them. It was up to the customer to phone Rogers and tell them they did not want the extra channels.

Totally not surprised they are frig'n with the rig'n.

[SaisMatters]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...red+Content%29


While not actually killing connection (though it might as well be), I figured that would be enough to get most people to have a look at the article.

Thanks for the info Missing Minds.

You deserve an award from our Governor General.

I'm glad I'm not with Rogers, but will be contacting my internet provider(shaw) to make sure this isn't happening with them.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Ah yes ... Rogers. A.K.A: Scum of the Earth ... my apologies to Scum everywhere.

I used to have my cable tv with them but switched off them years ago when they tried that reverse billing scam. They gave all their customers a bunch of extra channels no one wanted and then sent us the bill for them. It was up to the customer to phone Rogers and tell them they did not want the extra channels.

Totally not surprised they are frig'n with the rig'n.

Yes, they are so much worse than Bell, Telus, and MST who were found guilty by the CRTC of basically putting fraudulent charges on customer phone bills for years and who had to recently cough up refund cheques to every single customer they had as compensation for the practice.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

He's not Canadian he's from Argo. A real Canadian would have been nicer.

In fact if it MM had been attacking us a real Canadian would have to appologize to him for attacking us.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Thanks for the info Missing Minds.

You deserve an award from our Governor General.

I'm glad I'm not with Rogers, but will be contacting my internet provider(shaw) to make sure this isn't happening with them.

I have no doubt they are all doing the same thing.

I recently switched from Rogers to Bell because I got 6 months free Bell service as part of another deal. When I do speed checks both my throughput rate and my ping rates are better than on Rogers. But for some odd reason youtube now has performance issues and DDO gives me more baby lag spikes. Clearly Bell is squeezing me on those services, and since Bell feeds all the DSL providers, that means everyone using DSL in my province is probably getting screwed.

[Ethiel]

Canada isn't the only one.

http://gigaom.com/video/att-bandwidth-cap-netflix/

Att is instituting a cap and Comcast already has one they don't tell you about.

[Delt]

Ah yes ... Rogers. A.K.A: Scum of the Earth ... my apologies to Scum everywhere.

I used to have my cable tv with them but switched off them years ago when they tried that reverse billing scam. They gave all their customers a bunch of extra channels no one wanted and then sent us the bill for them. It was up to the customer to phone Rogers and tell them they did not want the extra channels.

Totally not surprised they are frig'n with the rig'n.

Lol, ya, Shaw tried a similar scam on me -- they switched me to a Novus Package ($54) to retain me as a customer, then claimed I didn't specifically cancel all the other channels from my previous package -- so I owed an additional $150 a month (x3 months). Lol, had to file an action with the CCTS on that one.

Rogers and Shaw are one an the same -- one scum for the east, the other for the west