Rogers Hi-Speed Internet
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| Type | Subsidiary of Rogers Communications |
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| Headquarters | Toronto, Canada |
| Industry | Internet Service Provider |
| Products | Cable Modem, DSL, Email |
| Owner(s) | Rogers Communications |
| Website | www.rogers.com/internet |
Rogers Hi-Speed Internet is a broadband internet service provider in Canada, owned by Rogers Communications. Rogers previously operated under the brand names Rogers@Home, Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet, and Road Runner in Newfoundland.
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[edit] Relationship with Yahoo!
In 2004, Rogers partnered with Yahoo! to offer Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet to its members. The free service offers unlimited e-mail storage, plus access to Premium Yahoo! Services at no charge, including a Flickr PRO account. Members are also offered an account with Yahoo! Canada GeoCities. Although still partnered with Yahoo!, Rogers dropped Yahoo! from its services name in 2008.[1]
[edit] Product changes
[edit] Speed
On March 18, 2008 Rogers started to increase speeds for its Ultra-Lite and Extreme customers to 512 kbit/s download for Ultra-Lite, and 10.0 Mbit/s download and 1.0 Mbit/s upload for Extreme.
[edit] Transfer limits
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Rogers has been reducing monthly data transfer limits for their lower-tier services. The Ultra-Lite package has gone from a 60 GB limit to a 2 GB limit and Lite package has gone from a 60 GB limit to a 25 GB limit while Extreme and Extreme Plus were reduced from a 100 GB limit to a 95 GB limit.
Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet users are now sometimes being warned through their browser via Rogers-injected code that they have reached 75% of their limit and again at 100% of their limit and will be charged for additional usage at the time of the 100% warning. If the limit is exceeded, the customer will be subject to additional charges. The overcharge fees are charged on a per-gigabyte basis (rounded down) at a high rate for cheaper plans, and a lower rate per additional overdraft gigabyte for the more expensive plans.
| Download speed | Upload speed | Monthly bandwidth limits | |
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| Grandfathered Ultra-Lite | 500 kbit/s | 256 kbit/s | 60 GB |
| Grandfathered Lite | 3.0 Mbit/s | 256 kbit/s | 60 GB |
| Ultra-Lite | 500 kbit/s | 256 kbit/s | 2 GB |
| Lite | 3.0 Mbit/s | 256 kbit/s | 25 GB |
| Express | 10.0 Mbit/s | 512 Kbit/s | 60 GB |
| Extreme | 10.0 Mbit/s | 1.0 Mbit/s | 95 GB |
| Extreme Plus | 18.0 Mbit/s | 1.0 Mbit/s | 95 GB |
| Portable Internet - BASIC | 512 Kbits/s | 128 Kbits/s | 10 GB |
| Portable Internet | 1.5 Mbits/s | 256 Kbits/s | 30 GB |
[edit] Security
While previously offering Norton Internet Security, Rogers and Yahoo switched to offering Rogers Online Protection.[2] It contains anti-virus/spyware, parent/privacy control and firewall features. A cutoff time of June 30th, 2009 was set for people to switch from their previous protections to this new one.
[edit] Controversy
Rogers has been criticised for traffic redirection and inspection. They use deep packet inspection to identify and throttle BitTorrent traffic.[3] and use website address errors (failed DNS lookups) to redirect traffic to their search portal.[4] They have also made a controversial move to display advertisements in webmail even though users pay for the service.[5][6]
[edit] Project Cleanfeed
Internet service providers Bell, Bell Aliant, MTS Allstream, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, and Vidéotron announced "Project Cleanfeed Canada" in November 2006; this involves the blocking of access to hundreds of child pornography sites.
[edit] Throttling
BitTorrent traffic is restricted through bandwidth throttling, which has caused complaints as users feel Rogers is overstepping their bounds as a service provider and despite Rogers advertising their service “for sharing large files and much more”. Rogers has previously denied such allegations, despite widespread reports of the issue. Further controversy arose when in May 2007, Rogers began throttling all encrypted file transfers allegedly to combat BitTorrent traffic, but affecting all encrypted transfers regardless if they are BitTorrent traffic or not.[7] [8]
[edit] Injection of content
Since early December, 2007, Rogers has been injecting their own content into other company's websites without permission.[9] Rogers users who are close to the maximum download limit are seeing red text appear above the content of every website they visit. The notice continues to appear on every page until the user either clicks a link acknowledging that they have seen the message or chooses to opt out of the notification.[10]
[edit] Hijacking failed DNS lookups
In late July, 2008, all "server not found" pages are redirected to a webpage with Rogers advertisements, those similar to the page the user was trying to access.[11] Those who decide to "opt-out" are still redirected to an Internet Explorer "server not found" page, regardless of the user's web browser.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ NeoWin forums
- ^ Rogers Online Protection
- ^ Tech Net Neutrality on CBC, March 28, 2008
- ^ DigitalHome.ca
- ^ Business article on TheStar.com
- ^ p2p.net story
- ^ "Rogers Bit Torrent Cat & Mouse". dslreports.com. 2006-02-09. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71914. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
- ^ "Rogers Fights BitTorrent by Throttling All Encrypted Transfers". torrentfreak.com. 2007-04-11. http://torrentfreak.com/rogers-fighting-bittorrent-by-throttling-all-encrypted-transfers/. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
- ^ Rogers tests new cap warning system, raises neutrality alarms
- ^ Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web pages
- ^ Rogers violates net neutrality by hijacking failed DNS lookups
- ^ Rogers' new DNS re-direct practice foils telecommuting
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