Rogers Hi-Speed Internet
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| Rogers Hi-Speed Internet | |
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| Type | Subsidiary of Rogers Communications |
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| Industry | Internet Service Provider |
| Products | Cable Modem, DSL, Email |
| Website | Rogers High Speed Internet |
Rogers Hi-Speed Internet is Rogers Communications Internet Service Provider of broadband Internet access. Rogers previously operated under the brand name RoadRunner in Newfoundland.
In 2004 Rogers partnered with Yahoo! to offer Rogers-Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet to its members. The free service offers 1GB of e-mail storage, plus access to Premium Yahoo! Services at no charge. Members lost free website space when this went ahead, but are now offered account with Yahoo! Canada GeoCities.
Rogers currently provides four packages for Hi-Speed Internet:
Ultra-Lite: For those who primarily use email and light amount of web surfing. (128 kbit/s download and 64 kbit/s upload)
Lite: For email and occasional file sharing, moderate web surfing. (1.0 Mbit/s download and 128 kbit/s upload)
Express: For sharing photos files, intensive web surfing. (5.0 Mbit/s download and 384 kbit/s upload)
Extreme: Fastest residential service for large file sharing. (6.0 Mbit/s download and 800 kbit/s upload)
Monthly bandwidth limit is 60 GB, except the Extreme package which has a 100GB limit.
[edit] Removal of File Sharing
Since December 15, 2005, Rogers has been actively blocking, or significantly slowing traffic to and from BitTorrent and other downloading clients. At present, no known P2P service will work on Rogers internet. One representative even went so far as to assert that these services were illegal. And while there is nothing illegal about a peer-to-peer network in Canada, their popularity with regards to the sharing of illegally copied content is hard to ignore. According to several other representatives interviewed there are plans to eliminate all forms of illegal file sharing, including last year's filtering of usenet, and the blocking or filtering of on and off network HTTP sites who they determine guilty of the illegal sharing of content.
Rogers claims that the choice was made due to "pressure from Universal and other big studios", to crack down on illegal file sharing. Since Canadian customers are protected by strict privacy laws, allowing law enforcement agencies to search their customer database is out of the question without a warrant.
Many believe that Rogers' introduction of a home phone service, which is based on their cable and internet technologies, may have triggered the ban on P2P, due to the large amount of bandwidth which must be required for both. However Rogers denies these claims saying that the phone service uses a dedicated network.
[edit] Related links
- List of who owns what
- I hate Rogers.ca
- "Broadband Reports.com: [ Extreme new user: bittorrent a disaster!"]
- "iMatt: Rogers High Speed Internet now Low Speed, because of Rogers"
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