Rogers - Do they know what they are saying?
Check out these quotes from Michael Geist that he found from Rogers Executives.
* Tom Turner, the VP and GM of Rogers High Speed Internet is quoted in the article as saying “to make sure we have optimized performance for our customers, time sensitive and immediate uses such as web surfing and e-mail are given priority. We don’t traffic shape.”
* Ken Englehart, Rogers Regulatory VP, who said in the letter to the editor that Rogers is not “degrading encrypted traffic” and that “our equipment ensures network capacity is reserved for such services as email and Web surfing, and peer-to-peer traffic does not overwhelm the system.”
* Tanta Gupta, Rogers spokesperson, who told that Globe and Mail in 2006 that the company uses bandwidth shaping to slow file-sharing applications.
Do these people even know what they are saying. ‘We don’t traffic shape’ yet the give priority to sensitive and immediate uses such as web surfing and email. What the ??? This is traffic shaping!!
They constantly give statements, that even in the one quotation contradicts what they are saying. It is time to get rid of these pseudo monopolies (only 2 choices really for high speed internet) and to also enact laws for Net Neutrality so new protocols, and existing ones co-exist properly.
I will concede that we might need to allow DNS lookups to be routed faster since this is needed to get to a web page, but I am not sold on this since a general slow down in the internet will effect everything, which is good, and then DNS attacks will also not be as viable since they too will slow down, while the rest of the internet could keep on flowing normally.