Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet
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| Rogers Yahoo! 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 | www.rogers.com/internet |
Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet is Rogers Communications Internet Service Provider of broadband Internet access in Canada. Rogers previously operated under the brand name Road Runner 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 five packages for Hi-Speed Internet:
Ultra-Lite: 128 kbit/s download and 64 kbit/s upload
Lite: 1.0 Mbit/s download and 128 kbit/s upload
Express: 5.0 Mbit/s download and 384 kbit/s upload
Extreme: 6.0 Mbit/s download and 800 kbit/s upload
Extreme Plus: 18 Mbit/s download and 1 Mbit/s upload
Monthly Bandwidth Limits:
Ultra Lite, Lite, Express: 60 GB
Extreme: 100 GB
Extreme Plus: 90 GB
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[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, even using end-to-end encryption with clients such as uTorrent and Azeureus with encryption enabled will not allow for full-speed BitTorrent usage, except in unthrottled network areas. 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] See also
[edit] Related links
- List of who owns what
- "Broadband Reports.com: [ Extreme new user: bittorrent a disaster!"]
- "iMatt: Rogers High Speed Internet now Low Speed, because of Rogers"
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