Bus error: Jake Billo’s weblog

To avoid incurring the wrath of the annoying Rogers packet-injected “over your cap” message, I use two Internet connections to manage our bandwidth usage per month. As well as the 95 GB capped 10Mbps/1Mbps Rogers Extreme plan, I also subscribe to TekSavvy’s 5Mbps/800kbps Residential Dry DSL with the Unlimited option. These services each link into a [...]

From a HowardForums post, I’ve found out that the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic is seeking comments from people affected by Bell or Rogers’ throttling. This refers to Bell’s global limitation of about 30K/s for BitTorrent, and Rogers areas affected by Ellacoya/Sandvine boxes.
I’ve written Robert Hester an email about my own experiences on [...]

It’s happened, and people should start getting upset. Rogers has begun injecting packets to indicate that people have reached their “usage allowance” into arbitrary websites – which curiously does not include Google, likely due to the previous public outcry when test images appeared on Ars Technica.

The top frame on nearly every website obscures text and [...]

From BroadbandReports, crossposted to ev98:
New Rogers speed increases are finally here after new price increases. For those curious, I’m on the Extreme profile and am currently pulling 900-920K/s speeds (8MBit) downloading. There’s about 2K/s increase in my upload speed, but I’ve yet to perform any serious testing. Express users (standard high speed) are reporting about [...]