cmack0
join:2001-10-12
Montrose, NY | US Seems a bit slow....
How does every other country have better broadband systems than the US? Are we really that far behind? |
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scavio
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join:2001-07-14
Melmac
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| 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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travisc
join:2001-11-09
Port Perry, ON
| 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. |
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scavio
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join:2001-07-14
Melmac
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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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axia
join:2002-01-09
Brampton, ON
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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. |
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travisc
join:2001-11-09
Port Perry, ON
| 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. |
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holymage
join:2002-03-19
York, ON
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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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