{"id":8496,"date":"2011-03-27T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2011-03-27T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:14:10","slug":"rogers-is-actively-throttling-bandwidth-for-world-of-warcraft-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/27\/rogers-is-actively-throttling-bandwidth-for-world-of-warcraft-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers is actively throttling bandwidth for World of Warcraft players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what isn&#8217;t really a surprise, <a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2011\/03\/27\/rogers-throttles-world-of-warcraft-across-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Olivetti<\/a> reports on how Canadian WoW players have been suffering from deliberate throttling:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Rogers said that it was Blizzard&#8217;s use of BitTorrent to deliver updates that triggered the throttling, and said that customers who disabled this setting &mdash; as well as any other peer-to-peer applications &mdash; would not see a slowdown in speed. &#8220;<em>Rogers will engage our customers to ensure they are aware of these recommendations, while continuing to work on a longer term solution,<\/em>&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what isn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,15],"tags":[58,192],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2d2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}