DaMizZa
join:2007-08-02
1 edit | reply to Monopoly guy
Re: I went to Access because of people telling me it's faster...
As far as the bandwidth statement, does it matter if I am at home to download? Does what I download matter? Does the time of day that I download matter?
That depends, with Access it does. With SaskTel it doesn't.
SaskTel also offers Static IPs, weird.
SaskTel doesn't try to hide their business practices from the general public. Access does. Nowhere, in any ad or even online do they even make mention of their Cap policy. Even if you read through all the fine print when you first sign up, it makes no mention of it.
Bottom line is, why pay the same amount, in some cases more, for less service? Would it make more sense to pay $5 for a 5lb bag of potatoes at one place, when you can pay $5 for a 20lb bag of potatoes at another? The difference in that analogy may seem exageratted, but in reality it's much worse. Like I said, at 5 Mbps, you should get 1500+ GB per month of throughput. With SaskTel, you do, with Access, you get 70 GB.
So I mean, yeah, some people seem religious towards Access, and that's their choice, I'm not trying to change their minds.. But what I am trying to do is let people know what they're getting into when they sign up for Access, because Access doesn't.
So stay with your Access internet, limited to the throughput of approx. 256 Kbps, regardless of whether you have 5 MBps or 10 Mbps, that's totally cool with me. I'm just saying for people who haven't tried either yet, for the same price or less, you can go with SaskTel who will give you the full 1.5 Mbps, 5 Mbps, or 10 Mbps that you pay for, without limits on throughput.
Just out of curiosity, I just want to know how you justify Access being a better ISP... Cause I just don't see it at all, and I'm sure many people can agree with that.
Hosting a game server? Sure hope you don't get capped, or that server will be pretty empty thanks to some extreme lag caused by a throttled connection.. As long as you have Access that is.
For the record, SaskTel doesn't get a choice, a lot of competitors use SaskTel's network. Not by choice of course, but see SaskTel faces a disadvantage in terms of competition due to more restrictions and regulations from an organization called the CRTC, which forces them to let these competitors use their network. Even with these restrictions placed upon them, Access still doesn't seem able to compete with the level of service. Once they get rid of their cap non-sense, then maybe they could be considered a decent alternative, but until then, it's pretty much a no-brainer.
And while it can be argued that SaskTel is a Crown Corp and has unlimited funding from the government, just realize that SaskTel has not received any government money in over 80 years... They actually give the government money (Which helps keep your taxes in Saskatchewan lower), and at the same time put in an exponentially larger amount of money than Access back into local communities through sponsorships and donations... So really, better service, better community, and more government income that isn't out of your pockets, does it really sound so terrible? |
UknowNothing
@accesscomm.ca
| Read the back of your contract. At no time does Access offer "unlimited bandwidth" regardless of what you think. They offer "unlimited connectivity." Which means you are free to surf the web 24/7/365. Just because you are downloading more than 70GB of illegal pirated movies, games, software..and obviously you are if you are using that much bandwidth, doesn't mean that they need to allow you to do that. Most companies have a cap, some may be higher than others. Access does NOT use any of Sasktel's service in Regina. Don't go slandering a company before you know the facts, and it's quite obvious that you do not. Maybe Sasktel can dump 600 Million (taxpayers) dollars to improve their system. Access does a great job on ALOT less than that. With 600 Million dollars Access could provide cable to the entire provence for years... |
