CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules 165
beaverdownunder writes "A Canadian CRTC investigation in partnership with Cisco has found that Rogers Communications has violated federal net-neutrality rules by throttling connections related to P2P applications. Rogers has until noon on February 3rd to reply to the accusations or face a hearing."
Quoting the letter sent to Rogers: "On the basis of our evidence to date, any traffic from an unidentified time-sensitive application making use of P2P ports will be throttled resulting in noticeable degradation of such traffic."
Someone's gonna get fired! (Score:4, Insightful)
From the CRTC, that is. Apparently they didn't get the memo stating who their masters were.
Re:It should be throttled. (Score:5, Insightful)
Why?
Let say we both pay $40/month for our internet connection.
I use only 1GB P2P/month, and you use only 1GB VoIP/month. We both have no other traffic.
Why should you get priority over me? I paid as much as you and deserve what I paid for, at full speed.
If an ISP can't offer unlimited traffic for $40/month, then they only have to put data usage caps (preferably only during peak time since that's when there is congestion).
Until I bust my usage cap, I should be able to do what I want without being throttled.
Re:It should be throttled. (Score:5, Insightful)
Because a VOIP phone call will suck if the network is congested. Whereas your P2P download can take an extra 30 seconds to keep my call quality good. FYI, I worked on SNA and traffic prioritization was baked into the protocol for exactly these purposes -- TCP/IP is actually quite a dumb protocol in this regard.
Oh noes! (Score:3, Insightful)
A hearing!
Come back to me when there is actually a penalty involved.
Re:Finally (Score:2, Insightful)
Why is Canada dominated by this company?
Here in the U.S. we have two sometimes three different internet companies to choose from. It prevents them from being abusive to customers (since then we would just switch companies).
Here in some places (but not enough) of the U.S. we have two, sometimes three different internet companies to choose from.
FTFY
Re:It should be throttled. (Score:5, Insightful)
But the network is congested because the provider has sold what they don't have. Why you think any other users should be punished because of that fact is beyond me. Fact is, overselling with 10-20:1 ratios on network connections is no longer tenable.
Re:Finally (Score:4, Insightful)
Your experience is probably because their 100 Mb is only available as "unlimited" (500GB cap).
Re:It should be throttled. (Score:5, Insightful)
If your VoIP call suck, then switch to a better ISP.
How is this possible if only one wired broadband ISP serves your area?