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BrianDamage
We Are The Hounds From Hell
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join:2001-08-14
Rowlett, TX
clubs: 
| Re: I'll taste it myself Sounds about like what I have heard and read.
Good to hear from you again, Pup. I haven't seen ya in a while.
But, I agree with you, and you seem to have underscored my points, that Canada has a much more conducive broadband environment than we do here in the States.
And thanks...I'm hoping the weather clears a bit though....:)
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dnoyeB
Ferrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
| Can I leverage this? Perhaps I can buy a honking 1.00009W amplifier, a big 40dB directional antenna , Juice up my WAP11, plop it down on top of the renaissance Center and aim that sucker across the Detroit river into Windsor and get a nice respectable broadband connection 
Did I say that? hehe.
I wonder what the 'tarrifs' would be for importing bandwidth?
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| 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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travisc
join:2001-11-09
Port Perry, ON
| Re: US Seems a bit slow.... 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. | |
| | | | axia
join:2002-01-09
Brampton, ON
| Re: US Seems a bit slow.... 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
| Re: US Seems a bit slow.... 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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join:2002-03-19
York, ON
| 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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alex4life
Alex4life
Premium
join:2001-06-22
Delta, BC
| The Price The big difference is the price. Most Canadians pay either $40 CDN a month, or $35 CDN a month. Change that to US dollars, and it's equivalent to somewhere around $22 to $26 American. That's why broadband is getting better penetration in Canada. It also proves that companies CAN afford to sell broadband at cheaper prices in the US. If they ever give you crap like "we need to charge this much to break even", just ask them how Canadian broadband companies manage to survive. Remember, the prices I stated above are for cable AND DSL. It's funny, in the states DSL is on average more expensive than cable, but in Canada, at least where I live, it's the opposite. If I could get Telus Velocity DSL where I live, I'd be paying $5 less a month than I pay now for Cable. Oh, but one thing to mention: some companies (like my provider, and Telus) have monthly upload and download limits. That might be why they're cheaper. Still, this doesn't account for Shaw cable, which charges $40 a month Canadian for unlimited bandwidth. Anyways, for about $25 American, I can complain about my cable connection, that peaks at just about 5 megabits per second and is consistently at 2 MBits/s during peak hours.
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| | smiley4me
join:2002-02-25
North York, ON | Re: The Price I fall off my seat laughing when I see the prices for broadband in the US. I guess the price in the US reflects how much people can afford to spend in personal disposable income. Statisticly Alberta has the cheapest bandwidth in North America. | |
| larry12
Premium
join:2002-01-04
L0N 1K0
|  Hows $150 Canadian a month sound...
However, I will pay to play with this broadband alternative technology.
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