Re: [TLUG]: Rogers explains ‘shaping' policy

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>

| If all Rogers is doing is making an asymmetrical partition of bandwidth, so
| downloads have much more than uploads, that does not jeopardize their common
| carrier status. This has nothing to do with analyzing the data packets.

But your premise is wrong.  They are not just making an asymmetric 
partition.

They don't announce what they do, and they don't even truthfully answer 
questions about it, so we depend on observations.

Rogers started with throttling BitTorrent traffic specifically.

Some BitTorrents then were encrypted as a countermeasure.

Then Rogers aparently started throttling encrypted traffic ("kill them 
all; let God sort them").

See, for example:
  http://torrentfreak.com/rogers-fighting-bittorrent-by-throttling-all-encrypted-transfers/

If your premise was correct, we would not be complaining!
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