Rogers Hi-Speed Internet

[citation needed] Rogers' started high speed internet service as a way to aid remote workers.

[2][1] By the year 2000, the service was rebranded to Rogers@Home and availability was extended to more cities in Ontario and British Columbia.

This included service offers unlimited e-mail storage, plus access to Premium Yahoo!

(Unike regular GeoCities websites, these were ad-free for existing accounts, although those for new customers had drop-down ads.

reported that Rogers increased the price of all its cable Internet services by $2, except for Lite and Ultra-Lite which remain unchanged.

Rogers blames its slightly higher cap limits and its SpeedBoost technology as reasons for the price increase.

Currently being implemented within the GTA area, the company plans to extend this service's availability to the rest of Ontario by the end of 2012.

[citation needed] Rogers introduced fibre to the home (FTTH) residential internet service in 2012.

[8][9] In November 2015, Rogers launched a Fido-branded home internet service in its Ontario markets, offering a 30 Mbit/s package with a 300 GB bandwidth cap, and discounts for Fido mobile customers.

Rogers Hi-Speed Internet users may be warned, through their browser via Rogers-injected code, that they have reached 75% or 100% of their monthly limit.

Rogers confirmed that it is using fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) to power a new broadband service tier that provides upload and download speeds of up to 350 Mbit/s (symmetric).

Customers are encouraged to use Rogers Wireless Internet services instead, which generally offer a much lower bandwidth cap.

[16] and use website address errors (failed DNS lookups) to redirect traffic to their search portal.

[18] BitTorrent traffic was restricted through bandwidth throttling using the SCE-2020, and in later years, the SCE-8000 from Cisco Systems Inc, which had caused complaints as users felt Rogers was overstepping their bounds as a service provider and despite Rogers advertising their service "for sharing large files and much more".

[21] Despite the letter from the CRTC, Rogers still had not updated their policy pages as of February 4, 2011, and continued throttling all non-whitelisted internet traffic (no longer just P2P) for up to 15 minutes after P2P had been disabled.

[27] Since early December, 2007, Rogers has been injecting their own content into other companies' websites without permission.

[28] Rogers users who are close to their maximum data cap in their internet plan of choice are seeing red text appear above the content of every website they visit.

The notice continues to appear on every page until the user either clicks a link acknowledging that they have seen the message or chooses to opt out of the notification.

Rogers injects a warning message into Google.com