Lum the Mad over at Broken Toys posted something I recently heard about on the radio (this morning actually).
I’m Rogers customer and can’t complain about them now. If you asked me about eight years ago, I probably wouldn’t have been as pleased with them.
I was aware of their policy of throttling bitTorrent type downloads and have no issue with it. Short of Blizzard’s WoW patcher, I have yet to see bitTorrent used for something that was legal. I also have yet to see anyone in the Security business agree that it’s a good and safe means.
I’m guessing a lot of people (I didn’t say, “all”) complaining about Rogers have issue with it because they use their net connection for downloading TV shows, movies, or software – likely not legally.
About the only place this really impacts you is during patching or while downloading content during play – this is something I’ve done and it doesn’t seem to cause any issues for me. Maybe I’m lucky.
Wait, so if you’re not downloading then they dont throttle your internet?
Correct but more specifically for Blizzard’s use of BitTorrent as a vehicle for patching. Regular downloads they don’t seem to throttle.
Technically, if you’re using anything online you’re downloading (or uploading). đŸ˜‰