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join:2002-02-04 | At least they're trying Trying to compete with Shaws 10mbit and soon to come 25mbit.
60gb cap is just a formality though  luckily they don't enforce it. | |
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join:2006-10-24
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| Re: At least they're trying trying?? BULL PLOP!, Cogeco's standard packages is 10Mbit down and 640 up, with a 100GB cap. with their "pro" being 16Mbit/1Mbit up
This is NOT news worthy that they're uping their speeds to 6mbit.
I'm just hating the fact that i'm moving into a Roger's area soon, and Sympatico has no dsl service in that area. | |
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lucky644
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| Re: At least they're trying said by adescamps  :This is NOT news worthy that they're uping their speeds to 6mbit. A month ago or so max was 2.5 for residential then they upped to 3.0, now its doubled to 6.0
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: At least they're trying said by lucky644 :said by adescamps :This is NOT news worthy that they're uping their speeds to 6mbit. A month ago or so max was 2.5 for residential then they upped to 3.0, now its doubled to 6.0 Assuming you are close enough to your switch to QUALIFY.
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lucky644
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| Re: At least they're trying said by dvd536 :said by lucky644 :said by adescamps :This is NOT news worthy that they're uping their speeds to 6mbit. A month ago or so max was 2.5 for residential then they upped to 3.0, now its doubled to 6.0 Assuming you are close enough to your switch to QUALIFY. I am  | |
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Vancouver, BC | And most people in the big three urban areas will be within the next year and a half, if the broadband build is on schedule. | |
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Quentin
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join:2001-09-12
AB, Canada
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| I agree with lucky644 , It is newsworthy, because a very large number of smaller communities (like the one I'm in), are mainly only wired up with Telus. Sure we have a local cable company, "Platinum Communications" if you care to look em up, but hey have 10 gig caps, and they enforce it with $5 per gig overusage. How's that for competitive-ness? I'll take my Telus Server 3.0 plan and Satellite TV any day over their Cable-Crap.
Doubling the speeds from 3.0 to 6.0 is awesome. (I even considered the 2.5 - 3.0 jump was awesome, considering my 2.5 speeds were about 2.2mbps, and my 3.0 speeds are 2.9mbps, thats a jump from 274KB/sec to 365KB/sec, Plenty impressive for me, and now that'll be going up to about 700KB/sec, That's amazing.
Not very many people in small communities have big cable companies like Rogers or Shaw. Especially the ones with less than 4000 population.
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dvd536
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| said by lucky644 :Trying to compete with Shaws 10mbit and soon to come 25mbit. And lying about it. adsl upload tops out at 896kbps
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| Re: At least they're trying Then I had a near-perfect connection a few months ago, my DSL Modem trained its upload at 864kbps (That was from straight from my DSL Modems Statistic page.)
Speed tests averaged at 768 kbps (with overhead and all), on the odd lucky day when I sat and reset my DSL Modem a few times, it syncs in the 800s, but its never less than 764.
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shellenberg
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join:2003-12-20
Salmo, BC | Try to screw the rest of us... you mean What about my 2.5mb down, 1mb up (which only ever trains at 640k) that I pay $90 a month?? They'll give 6/1 for about half of what I pay for 2.5/.6? Where is my vaseline. | |
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thender2
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean said by shellenberg :What about my 2.5mb down, 1mb up (which only ever trains at 640k) that I pay $90 a month?? They'll give 6/1 for about half of what I pay for 2.5/.6? Where is my vaseline. Yeah but with a 60 GB cap anything over 512 kbps, if even that high is pretty useless.
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TKJunkMail
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| Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean said by thender2 :Yeah but with a 60 GB cap anything over 512 kbps, if even that high is pretty useless. Speed and transfer caps are not the same thing. Higher speeds are very good for almost all users. It lets downloads go very quickly. The higher speed doesn't mean that you should be downloading non-stop night and day. The only ones hurt by transfer caps are those who are constantly downloading everything under the sun. For those, they should pay more.
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thender2
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean said by TKJunkMail :said by thender2 :Yeah but with a 60 GB cap anything over 512 kbps, if even that high is pretty useless. Speed and transfer caps are not the same thing. Higher speeds are very good for almost all users. It lets downloads go very quickly. The higher speed doesn't mean that you should be downloading non-stop night and day. The only ones hurt by transfer caps are those who are constantly downloading everything under the sun. For those, they should pay more. To me, excluding iran/a few other odd countries, the UK and canada seem like the only countries with these 60 GB limits. In germany you can get 50/10 for a reasonable price, in the US you can get 7/768 without caps, 3/768 without caps, or if you live where I do 30/9.5 without caps all for a reasonable price.
Even in canada there are ISPs like mountaincable with great speeds, 50 day retention on usenet for a reasonable price which twizlar could probably attest, do not cap.
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twizlar
I dont think so.
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join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON
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1 edit | Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean Yep, there are pleanty of Good isps around that do not cap and have decent service. Most ADSL Isps in eastern canada do not cap, or offered Uncapped Services (ie. Teksavvy)
Edit: speed test history,
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| What a nice way of saying...."People who run P to P software and download/upload illegal music and videos and warez 24/7........
I think most people don't understand what bandwidth is. It's a rating of the AMOUNT of data that can be transferred per second. A 1.5 Mbps pipe is the same "speed" as a 10 Mbps pipe. The difference is the amount of data that can be pushed through the pipe in one second. ie: 1.5 Mb's vs 10 Mb's.
My point being, they're the same speed, what differs is the amount of data going through per second. When you upgrade to a larger connection (say from 1.5 to 10 Mbps) you don't get a faster connection. People often are confused about bandwidth so I thought I'd post this in easy to understand terms for the sake of clarity as to "bandwidth" and what it is. | |
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shellenberg
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join:2003-12-20
Salmo, BC | Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean said by Cptn :
When you upgrade to a larger connection (say from 1.5 to 10 Mbps) you don't get a faster connection. Uh... come again?? | |
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Cptn
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On a 2.5 Mpbs download rate, expect around 1.5 to 2 Mbps on average. | |
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qwerttyyugf
@shawcable.net | Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean then how come with my old provider i used to max out my upload rate at 1Mbps? .6 is not what you should be expecting from a 1Mbps line. if it says 1Mbps you should get 1Mbps and you should not settle for anything less. | |
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andyb
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join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario | Re: Try to screw the rest of us... you mean maybe because your on cable???  dsl has overhead and you cannot get away from it. | |
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Vamp
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join:2003-01-28
MD | Glad I don't live in Canada.. 90% of our ISPs are unlimited and usually people have to download hundreds of GBs to be considered "abusing".
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Snickerdo
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Niagara Falls, ON
| Re: Glad I don't live in Canada.. said by Vamp :90% of our ISPs are unlimited and usually people have to download hundreds of GBs to be considered "abusing". And even then, many of the ISPs that have so-called caps (e.g. Cogeco) don't enforce them. I regularly pull 1-1.1MB/s from Newsgroups using my Cogeco connection and have never heard a peep after breaking 60GB.
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fizzlemajizzle
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| Re: Glad I don't live in Canada.. Shaw in Canada routinely enforces their bandwidth caps - by charging a ridiculous amount of money if you go over even 100 MB. Sure they can offer 10MB speeds, but with a 60GB cap, what's the point?
Other ISPs (MTS in Winnipeg, for example, and SaskTel) have no caps at all - not official or unofficial. | |
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join:2000-03-29
Beverly Hills, CA | Price? How does that tier compare to say AT&T in price? | |
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join:2007-01-14
1g2g4j7 | _lol copter My bandwith is at 198% but I ran a meter for a month and it has only been 79% ( I was a good boy and no video) IT SAYS I AM AT 20 GIB I AM ONLY AT 9!!!! | |
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