In what isn’t really a surprise, Justin Olivetti reports on how Canadian WoW players have been suffering from deliberate throttling:
If you play World of Warcraft in Canada and were wondering why your connection seemed a bit slow, it turns out there may be a good explanation: Rogers Communications has been deliberately throttling the game across the country.
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Rogers said that it was Blizzard’s use of BitTorrent to deliver updates that triggered the throttling, and said that customers who disabled this setting — as well as any other peer-to-peer applications — would not see a slowdown in speed. “Rogers will engage our customers to ensure they are aware of these recommendations, while continuing to work on a longer term solution,” a spokesperson said.
