Review by wizard_cgt 
Posted: 7.8 years ago
member for 8.2 years, 10 visits, last login: 7.8 years ago
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 Contract price not specified.
 about 26 days
 "Speed, Fast Installation"
 "Bandwidth limit, terrible news server"
 "I am probably going to go back to HSE asap"
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I switched to Cogeco from bell HSE last month in hopes of greater speeds.
A friend had it and was getting speeds easily double HSE at 7:00 PM on a Friday night so the myth that cable speeds suck during heavy load times is false and I can vouch for this as I am getting the same results with mine.
After you call to get them to come out expect to wait a long time. I called a few days before christmas and got up on January 19th. The installation went quickly but the tech didn't leave an extra RJ-45 patch cord so i will have to go buy one now to replace the one Bell lent us. He also left no documentation, software or information regarding e-mails.
My biggest gripe is the bandwidth limitations. 5gb down/1gb up. That is really ridiculous. 56k users will trasfer more than that in a month. Why would they give us this much speed if we aren't allowed to use it? If any Cogeco guys see this I would like to know what percentage of users are actually UNDER this. 5% maybe? If they were to implement a system where users have to pay for extra bandwidth they would lose a HUGE portion of their customers.
I believe they claim that you can download huge files, watch streaming video etc. Well, you COULD, but you are going to go over their bandwidth limits. They claim this is to prevent users from "abusing". Abusing would be setting up a warez ftp and uploading 30 gigs a week to your hax0r buddies. 5gb/1gb is nothing more than using.
Bell allows you to transfer as much as you want and even run game servers. Just so long as you pay the bills and don't do illigal stuff.
If cogeco were still under @home it would have been bearable. @home doesn't have all these crazy restrictions and has a wonderful news matrix.
Cogeco has a solution to the uploading issue - they provide servers for us.
Well these servers are as follows.
Counter-Strike x2 - Where is the Day of Defeat?
Webserver - i can't find any information on this but i hear it is 20mb with no mySQL or PHP
The reason people set up webservers at home is so they have unlimited space and control over what they install on the server - no mySQL or PHP? No forums in that case.
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