Canadian World of Warcraft players getting throttled admits Rogers
Rogers, one of Canada’s main wireless, cable, and Internet providers, is well known for its anti-consumer activities so it should come as no surprise that with some intense questioning from the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television Telecommunication Commission) has come clean about the throttling of World of Warcraft traffic on its network.
Rogers recently replied to an inquiry issued by the CRTC that questions Rogers’ internet traffic management on World of Warcraft.
The major ISP has confirmed that it’s slowing down WOW and admitted it’s in fact interfering with the connection. Ken Thompson also stated in the letter to the CRTC that the problem occurs when customers are “simultaneously using peer-to-peer file sharing applications” and offered a lame solution; turn off peer-to-peer within the Warcraft settings. Blizzard, the creator or Warcraft uses bit torrent technology to update the game.
The problem here is that nothing that Rogers is considered to be ‘illegal’ as it doesn’t break any laws in Canada but Rogers has expressed its regrets over the inconvenience that its game playing customers may be experiencing. Of course Rogers also tried to shift the blame to Blizzard for making recent changes to the game which had created new problems.
