CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules

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."

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[atlasdropperofworlds]

So does Shaw. I get bizarre behavior with Skype (distortions, connection problems) at non-peak hours. If I run speed test at those times, both my download and upload capacity max out. It's all very annoying. I also have inside information that Shaw has had throttling equipment in for almost 10 years now, and that they do use it.

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[phoenix_rizzen]

And it's done on a per-IP basis, not a per-household or per-account basis. Since you get (at least) 2 dynamic IPs per Shaw Internet account, all you have to do is separate your "normal" traffic from your "excessive" traffic.

For example, we setup to routers at our house, with a switch between them and the cable router. They each get a different IP via DHCP.

Torrents and other "bandwidth hogs" go through one router. All other traffic goes through the other router.

That way, when they throttle all traffic through one IP, it doesn't affect our normal web browsing activities.