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Posts Tagged ‘cable’

Rogers Still Sucks

I get a kick out of the various sites proclaiming what criminals Rogers Communications are. Specifically their wireless division. I’ve asserted for some time that the problem is deeper than that: The whole company stinks. From customer service to the jackasses running their websites. It’s a terrible customer experience. Why, in the midst of the [...]

Bell Throttling DSL

After struggling for a couple of weeks to get a working ADSL connection installed (and eventually giving up and getting a cable connection), I see the following article on Ars Technica: Canadian ISPs furious about Bell Canada’s traffic throttling Not that Rogers is any better. This leaves exactly zero alternatives for a residential internet connection [...]

The new shape of broadband

From Globetechnology: The new shape of broadband Rogers Cable, like other cable companies, has in fact been implementing something it calls “traffic shaping,” a technology that gives priority to certain on-line activities (such as e-mail, browsing, voice communication) and putting the brakes on other less time-sensitive stuff, such as swapping music files. This has been [...]