Canadian ISP Rogers Accused of Throttling Video Game Connections

Corey Rollins Writes: "We've all experienced periods of unexpected lag while playing online games. Often times we blame our hardware, or a congested server. But a recent complaint in Ontario against the Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Rogers Communications suggests otherwise.

The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) has accused the large ISP of failing to provide accurate transparency with its Internet Traffic Management Programs (ITMP), otherwise known as Internet throttling."

[ziggurcat]

it's a good thing i'm not with rogers haha.

[ShoryukenII]

If they keep this up, they'll end up like Blockbusters. >:)

[kma2k]

We could only wish. I dont even live in canada but ISP's everywhere pull crap like this & its a bunch of bs.

The stupid caps are antoher thing that are just bs!

[redsymphony]

well im on rogers and i would def say they are

[kneon]

I've rarely ever noticed any lag issues, the only game I've seen it on is when my daughter plays COD. Maybe it's only applied in certain areas or on the lower tier plans. I'm on extreme plus and on speedtest the ping is typically 10-12 ms with download speeds of 35-40mbps, that's more than the advertised speed. I should try it from the PS3 and see if it's any different, though that is unlikely to be throttled either as it's not a gaming traffic.

[eferreira]

im on rogers, this pisses me off

[HeavenlySnipes]

I knew it wasn't me just sucking ass randomly....

[Awesome-Xanto]

The reason why OnLive and Online Muliplayer are not the future, even if it isn't right... more ISP's are going to continue to do this kind of stuff even if you don't like it.

[_Q_]

Time Warner in Garden Grove,Ca is doing the same I know it! Get em boys!

[kma2k]

att dsl in southern california was throtiling the crap out of ps3 connections. I have 3 other friends within 100 miles of me that all of us were having beyond slow internet downloads. After updating to att fiber optic network the downloads magically were normal speed. F att!

[Shani]

I hope Rogers has to pay for it. So other ISPs will start thinking before doing these tricks.

[Blaine]

I'm with Videotron, not Rogers, but all I know is my PSN downloads are slow as shit right now. Downloading a demo used to take a few minutes, now it's taking days. I'm painting while they're downloading, and I may as well watch the paint dry--at the rate both are going, the paint'll start chipping before the downloads are done.

I just got back from 2 months out of the country, so the first thing I did was catch up on the PSN games and demos I missed. Needless to say I've downloaded many, many gigs, and I think that's why my speed has been cut. Except they're already going to make me pay out of the ass for those extra gigs, they shouldn't be allowed to cut my speed also.

[ziggurcat]

with videotron, too, but i have one of the faster plans (30mbps/120gb per month) and haven't seen anything like what you're describing.

call them out on the speed dropping.

[Saryk]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh that would piss me off to no end!

[SkullBlade169]

This is a bit silly when you consider that gaming traffic requires less bandwidth than an average download... This company shouldn't be throttling in the first place, but it is kinda funny that they appear to be throttling something which is a small percentage of the overall bandwidth usage anyway.

[BattleAxe]

Rogers is the worst company to do business with, I'm glad they moved their Cable/Internet operations out of B.C.