I am on a capless 100 mbps line.
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Deryn on 05/09/2012, 07:58 AM - view
I'm canadian, I get 30mb/s 200gb/mo for $55 a month.
I'd love for you to link your plan with the provider in this thread. "aka it's none existant or an ancient internet plan that you should renew"
Canadian internet actually sucks. I have a 7 Mbps internet connection with a max download of 50 gigs a month (up from 30 not too long ago) and this is the basic plan for 115$/month (triple play).
My american fiance pays the same price for their basic which is 25 mbps and unlimited.
I called two companies here to see how much it would cost me just for the same internet he has... 160$ just for the internet, not triple play!
So yeah, we're getting riped off here!
I'm canadian, I get 30mb/s 200gb/mo for $55 a month.
I'd love for you to link your plan with the provider in this thread. "aka it's none existant or an ancient internet plan that you should renew"
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Cheg on 05/09/2012, 11:28 AM - view
And yet you still have so many other options when purchasing a car - which was the point. Besides, you consume fuel, you do not consume the internet / bandwidth.
Cheg on 05/09/2012, 11:28 AM - view
I work in animation and have to transfer both large image files and video (yay hd) on a weekly basis. That's in addition to other regular family consumption including 3 downloads of tera on two systems (3 total), clud backups and of course everyones addicton to netflix/grooveshark. I can think of several other jobs off the top of my head that would yield the same. I'm sure you could too but I understand the impulse to assume the worst.
A Bugatti Veyron will burn all it's fuel in 12 minutes if you run it at max speed.
And yet you still have so many other options when purchasing a car - which was the point. Besides, you consume fuel, you do not consume the internet / bandwidth.
Cheg on 05/09/2012, 11:28 AM - view
Btw, which legal means are you possibly using over 250GB a month? I downloaded TERA 3 times last month and still ended up at 220GB or so.
I work in animation and have to transfer both large image files and video (yay hd) on a weekly basis. That's in addition to other regular family consumption including 3 downloads of tera on two systems (3 total), clud backups and of course everyones addicton to netflix/grooveshark. I can think of several other jobs off the top of my head that would yield the same. I'm sure you could too but I understand the impulse to assume the worst.
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Dracoda on 05/10/2012, 05:36 PM - view
Oh, you work using a residential account? Doesn't Rogers offer any "work" accounts? I've been seriously tempted to upgrade to Comcast Business Class rather than pay for any overages.
Cheg on 05/09/2012, 11:28 AM
A Bugatti Veyron will burn all it's fuel in 12 minutes if you run it at max speed.
And yet you still have so many other options when purchasing a car - which was the point. Besides, you consume fuel, you do not consume the internet / bandwidth.
Cheg on 05/09/2012, 11:28 AM
Btw, which legal means are you possibly using over 250GB a month? I downloaded TERA 3 times last month and still ended up at 220GB or so.
I work in animation and have to transfer both large image files and video (yay hd) on a weekly basis. That's in addition to other regular family consumption including 3 downloads of tera on two systems (3 total), clud backups and of course everyones addicton to netflix/grooveshark. I can think of several other jobs off the top of my head that would yield the same. I'm sure you could too but I understand the impulse to assume the worst.
Oh, you work using a residential account? Doesn't Rogers offer any "work" accounts? I've been seriously tempted to upgrade to Comcast Business Class rather than pay for any overages.
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They do offer business accounts, but i'd pay 114.xx instead of 99.xx and for the extra cash they will reduce my speed form 75 to 30Mbps. I believe there is a cap but they don't publish it on the site (I called but they are closed atm). Regardless - it's almost evil either way and the speed with a 50$ overage cap is still better than 114.xx for 30Mbps with any cap. Hopefully you can do better with Comcast.
FoolishLobster on 05/09/2012, 11:46 AM
I started the process with TekSavvy based on some really great user reviews but the people I dealt with must have been having a pretty bad day because they were absolute ### holes. It worked out for the best because I ended up going through a six month saga with rogers to get my internet stabilized and I believe that would have cost me a lot for the service calls through TekSavvy. Glad it's working out for you though - hopefully Rogers doesn't succeed in squeezing them out.
FoolishLobster on 05/09/2012, 11:46 AM
I'm with TekSavvy in Toronto and I have 28Mbps and 300GB limit for $48 a month.
I started the process with TekSavvy based on some really great user reviews but the people I dealt with must have been having a pretty bad day because they were absolute ### holes. It worked out for the best because I ended up going through a six month saga with rogers to get my internet stabilized and I believe that would have cost me a lot for the service calls through TekSavvy. Glad it's working out for you though - hopefully Rogers doesn't succeed in squeezing them out.
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arwis on 05/09/2012, 03:52 AM - view Were not talking land lines honey there is a big difference between a land line and a cell phone lol :)
Sollith on 05/09/2012, 03:40 AMSizuru on 05/09/2012, 03:20 AMim american and i dont know what country uses these kind of rules. please enlighten me.
I think most of EU has some sort of monthly data usage cap or something.
They tried it here in the U.S. until consumers game a [filtered] storm about it in the areas they were testing it out (They are pretty much like cell phone data plans where you only get like 10GB, 20GB, etc. a month... going over that would cost a premium; thank god we don't have such a [filtered] system. One reason to still like America lol)
PS I think I heard from comcast or somewhere that there are data caps on residential internet usage, but that they are so high that 99% of the U.S. won't ever come close to hitting them unless they are torrenting and streaming large files like 24/7.
I'm from EU and I can say it's BS, we do not have any caps on landlines what so ever. It would be pretty stupid caping 100/300/1000 mbps lines.