Re: US Seems a bit slow.... in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r2817790 en Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:21:10 EDT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:21:10 EDT Re: US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2847341 holymage :
said by scavio:
Most don't, people just like to talk about those that do.

There are also a bunch of our neighbors to the north who are extremely unhappy with Rogers, that's for sure.



Hey, I am Canadian - using Sympatico high speed DSL 925-1023 kilobits/s is my speed range with 128 upload. It rarely has any service interuption (usually for maintanance reasons). It's been down 3 times in 3 years for 1 hour to 24 hours (longest was 24). And after asking lots of questions I would not go with Rogers either-share broadband is not my thing.

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2847341 Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:05:32 EDT Re: US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2818153 travisc :
said by axia:
Rogers angelic? you've got to be kidding. it's very unstable. you'll notice atleased 1 screw up at rogers a day. that's not good enough. try sending a file on ICQ. it'll stop 4 times then you'll get it right finally. it's pathetic.

Canada doesn't have good broadband. Bell has it's DSL with 128kilobit uploads and rogers is 128kilobit downloads if it feels like it. it's no fun.

you guys have cool stuff like DSDN. 100megabit access. i want some of that! i'm on bell and barely get over a megabit... which is considered to be in the top 1% of bell subscribers.

Candian broadband isn't fun or much, if any better than the USs. you wanna see real broadband? go to the Netherlands or other european places. 1Megabit is what the people on welfare have.


Speak for yourself, my man. I haven't had any outages with Rogers in more than 6 months, and even then, it was once for about an hour. My connection is consistently quick and stable. Sorry for your troubles. Your experiences don't serve as a statistically significant population from which to make conclusions about the rest of Rogers' service.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2818153 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:05:27 EDT Re: US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2817790 axia :
said by travisc:
That's all relative. Relative to the chaos that I read about in the US, Rogers is angelic. They've had their problems, for sure, but the majority of people are satisfied. There's a vocal minority who are not, and a media bias against them because they're big business and due to a negative option billing fiasco on the cable TV side of things in 1996.


Rogers angelic? you've got to be kidding. it's very unstable. you'll notice atleased 1 screw up at rogers a day. that's not good enough. try sending a file on ICQ. it'll stop 4 times then you'll get it right finally. it's pathetic.

Canada doesn't have good broadband. Bell has it's DSL with 128kilobit uploads and rogers is 128kilobit downloads if it feels like it. it's no fun.

you guys have cool stuff like DSDN. 100megabit access. i want some of that! i'm on bell and barely get over a megabit... which is considered to be in the top 1% of bell subscribers.

Candian broadband isn't fun or much, if any better than the USs. you wanna see real broadband? go to the Netherlands or other european places. 1Megabit is what the people on welfare have. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2817790 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:19:21 EDT Re: US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816397 scavio : I think the same could be said for around here. Most people are satisfied, you have the chosen few who aren't (can't speak for Comcast though). I do, however, like how things are moving along in Canada, but I don't think there is that much of a difference right now in terms of quality and availability. That could soon change though since you (Canadians) seem to be moving forward better than we are. This is of course a general statement, not intended to be a blanket one.
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Ha, I kill me!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816397 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:25:29 EDT Re: US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816373 travisc : That's all relative. Relative to the chaos that I read about in the US, Rogers is angelic. They've had their problems, for sure, but the majority of people are satisfied. There's a vocal minority who are not, and a media bias against them because they're big business and due to a negative option billing fiasco on the cable TV side of things in 1996.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816373 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:21:22 EDT Re: US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816331 scavio : Most don't, people just like to talk about those that do. Just like OOL here in the U.S., a lot of people don't realize what a small portion of the population they are but the number of posts make the uninformed think otherwise.

There are also a bunch of our neighbors to the north who are extremely unhappy with service. I definitely don't hear many good things about Rogers, that's for sure.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816331 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:13:14 EDT US Seems a bit slow.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816196 cmack0 : How does every other country have better broadband systems than the US? Are we really that far behind?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2816196 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:55:37 EDT