How to play online games on Rogers / Bell

CRTC tells Rogers to stop slowing down the speed of online games

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OTTAWA — Canada's telecommunications regulator on Friday gave Rogers Communications Inc., mere days to come up with a plan to solve a problem that could be unfairly slowing down the speed of online games.
In a letter to the telecom giant, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission said the company's own traffic management policy states that online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only be affected if Rogers misclassifies the games and other peer-to-peer applications were running at the same time.

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"We are currently getting reports from our members that Shaw customers are also affected by misclassification. The CRTC has also been aware for quite some time that Bell Sympatico members have also experienced similar problems," said Koblovsky.

So , how do you play your online games on these networks that are outright hostile to the activity. Oh they claim they want your business, they claim they're fixing it, but they want you to wait while they do this. And they want you to keep paying your monthly bill while they're fixing it , and you're getting poor service. 

The solution ? Switch providers. There are many many small local DSL internet providers that don't enact any kind of throttling of any sort. 

And, as an online gamer , I have to wonder. What use is Rogers if I can't play my favorite games on it ? What else to I use it for ? Surfing the net ? I can do that anywhere. You two Bell Sympatico. 

These two networks have suddenly stopped providing services that I need. At any price. It's no longer a matter of how much they charge. It's a matter of you aint getting it no matter what. . 

Time to switch.

Edit : Oh and seriously , stay away from Rogers. What is this nonsense that if you have bell , you can watch any TV show you like online, but if you have Rogers, you can't watch any rogers provided tv shows, because their internet and their television businesses would be competing with each other ? Thanks for telling me to stay the heck far away from rogers internet. 'Preciate that.