Mac Write
join:2004-10-13
New Westminster, BC
|  With IPTV Explosion 50GB cap is just too small
With the explostion of IPTV shows in the last few months and yet more to come, the 50GB cap on eXtreme-I is just not realistic anymore. With shows like
•Systm
•DiggNation
•The Broken
•From the Shadows
•Digital Life TV
•TWIT
and so on, the 50GB cap is just not going to cut it. Each show in H.264 can reach 300MB each equals allot of bandwidth. Most shows are distributed via BitTorrent and with Shaws packet shaping that cripples the download and distribution things have to improve. Shaw needs to double the 50GB cap to keep up with this merging trend. Shaws postion is probably "Get our cable TV" guess what? These shows are only aviliable on the Internet and not through cable TV. |
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Stonez04
join:2005-01-28 | we already know 50 gigs is too small and they most likely don't do anything. |
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Drex_CS
join:2005-05-11
canada
| As of right now IPTV isn't anything to care about for most people. You cant expect shaw to up bandwidth for IPTV because a limited audience is wanting it...
That would be like Audi giving away free cars because 10 people asked them too.
Note: I still think we need an upgrade in the Bandwidth department, but this is not even close to why. |
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AlwaysDisgruntled
@shawcable.net
| reply to Mac Write
If you want more bandwidth then you have to upgrade to one of the business connections. It'd be nice if Shaw would offer higher speed and more transfers, minus the extra crap like e-mails and webspace, for a discount. Of course they won't do that because the average customer doesn't use webspace or 5 IP's and whatnot (which means they can charge you extra for nothing).
»www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServic···kage.htm |
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Mac Write
join:2004-10-13
New Westminster, BC | reply to Mac Write
$104 for 70GB is not worth the price. Make that 100GB and I might be interested. |
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st7860
join:2004-05-13
San Francisco, CA | reply to Mac Write
instead of the $104/mo 70 gig shaw service
you could get two 3web platinums for $39.99/mo each, with about 50 gigs each. |
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Mac Write
join:2004-10-13
New Westminster, BC | reply to Mac Write
Also 3Web has so many complaints about their service I don't feel comfortable using them. |
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blackkitty
join:2005-06-10
Mission, BC
| It should be 100G. I went over by 3G on my 30G standard HS just with regular internet use, gaming, etc. Gaming took a lot last month. I upped it to extreme. It should be 50G and 100G respectively.
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File Share and Share Alike
For most in the culture industry, the chance of the file-sharing program BitTorrent serving a positive function is as likely as Darth Vader joining Habitat for Humanity. The popular program is a well-known tool for downloading pirated versions of films and television series. It has been especially popular among fans of Japanese animation, or anime - especially "fansubbers," anime lovers who swap their own subtitled versions of programs, and frequently get them into circulation before the original series is on the market. Fansubbers tend to think of themselves as enthusiasts sharing material they love, rather than pirates who buy, sell or horde it. Nonetheless, lawyers are not amused: in December, a Tokyo law firm representing one Japanese anime distributor e-mailed four major Web sites, asking them to stop encouraging the theft of the distributors' series.
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But ADV Films, the largest distributor of anime in the United States, has decided to make the best of a bad situation. To publicize its new series "Gilgamesh" and "Goddanar," it is releasing promotional packages - not in stores, but via the dreaded BitTorrent. "BitTorrent has been used extensively in a kind of underground environment up until now," said David Williams, a producer at ADV, in a telephone interview from the company's Houston headquarters. "There's a large group of people who have it on their systems. Since this core group already exists, we figured why not give them legitimate material to download that would help them learn about some of our products."
In late July, as a test, ADV released a trailer for the series "Madlax" through BitTorrent. The positive response led the company to assemble more extensive packages for "Gilgamesh" and "Goddanar" that include biographical information about the characters, images and statistics of the giant robots, promotional clips and links to online reviews.
Dossiers about giant robots might not seem like the highest calling to which 21st-century technology can be put, but as an act of electronic rehabilitation, it was a big step forward. "The response to the 'Madlax' trailer was just phenomenal," Mr. Williams said. "People were excited to see us using this technology in a legitimate way." Especially lawyer people. |
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pkarlos_76
join:2004-08-24
Edmonton, AB
| reply to AlwaysDisgruntled
said by AlwaysDisgruntled:If you want more bandwidth then you have to upgrade to one of the business connections. It'd be nice if Shaw would offer higher speed and more transfers, minus the extra crap like e-mails and webspace, for a discount. Of course they won't do that because the average customer doesn't use webspace or 5 IP's and whatnot (which means they can charge you extra for nothing). » www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServic···kage.htm Just buy another residential/extreme package and u get double!! |
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techonix
join:2005-07-26
Langley, BC | reply to Mac Write
hey Im on telus and I get 2.5mb/s down and have a 130gb cap so go telus but wait till strike is over shaw sucks |
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Jmac1
join:2005-08-04
1 edit | reply to Mac Write
It's a 60 GB cap for the $29.95 package (Telus High-Speed Enhanced) ... And I would go nuts if I could only download at 2.5 Mbps ...
»www.mytelus.com/internet/highspe···splay.do
Unless you're talking business, in which case it's still not 130 GB and quite expensive ...
»businesscontent.telus.com/webcon···Plan.jsp |
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