Comments on: Internet protocols could be facing a siege from ISPs

By: chris pine

chris pine — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:34:58 +0000

I think it would be ok if you were getting the Internet for free, but if you’re paying for their services, looks like they’re trying to nickle and dime you anywhere they can.

By: Dusk Eagle

Dusk Eagle — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:44:42 +0000

I phoned Rogers about this and, after they tried to set a cookie on my computer which would’ve done nothing and having me point that out to them, they told me to google for a free dns. I asked them if they offered their own servers which didn’t redirect to a page full of ads and they said no. Screw you, Rogers! (Maybe I should constantly download and delete random large-sized bulk just to cost them more money.)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:05:47 +0000

Thanks Tony. Yeah, I found out about Adium yesterday and downloaded it. Too bad iChat doesn’t support MSN natively, I really love those webcam effects.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:23:44 +0000

@Andrew -- on OS X, the IM clients are typically either iChat or Adium. I use the latter.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:06:38 +0000

I hate when Rogers does things like that. Unfortunately, people here in Toronto don’t really have a choice. It’s either Rogers or….*shiver*….Bell. I really hope they don’t inject that stuff into more things. Oh yeah, Rogers Sucks, please post the follow up to that. I’d love to see it.

BTW, what MSN program are you using in OS X? Is it MSN? I just got my Mac so I dont know.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:51:03 +0000

If you are, please follow up with their response. I’d be interested in hearing what they have to say about this.

By: ROGERS SUCKS

ROGERS SUCKS — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:33:57 +0000

i have rogers and have noticed that damn 404 page. tommorow imma call them and tell them to “stop clogging my internets tubes”. lol. i really will, and really am.

By: ddos

ddos — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:25:47 +0000

A situation like that would only be possible with ISP monopoly. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out which service people would use if one ISP injects you with tons of ads whatever you do and another one doesn’t. However it would be a great idea to use for at wireless hotspots for instance. Instead of making you purchase login information with SMS/credit card you would just have to look at advertisements….to be honest I’d prefer that.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:04:05 +0000

This is pretty scary. It’s a troublesome prospect to be certain. I’m tired enough of the ads I see on web pages, and the last thing I need is to be fed ads by my ISP – especially through some sort of evil injection technique such as this. It’s scares me even more due to the whole net neutrality debacle we had here in the United States.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:36:57 +0000

In order to make extra bucks, these ISP’s tend to do some illegal stuffs poking around their noses and trying to change the course of the protocols. For me I pay for the service, but am getting much lesser bandwidth allocated to me. Something has to be done to get these jerks back on the track.