 Review by techie 
UPDATED: 1.6 years ago
member for 6.4 years, 2301 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 Canada
 $57 per month
 about 1 days
 "Extremely good signal, uncongested node."
 "Caps."
 "Definitely better than the alternatives."
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I had Rogers in 2004 and did not have a good experience. Where I lived at the time had old RG-59 cable so that may have had something to do with it, and I was stuck with a TeraPro modem. Within about a week I switched to DSL.
I recently moved and didn't feel like putting up with the DSL hassles like distance from the CO, poor-quality wiring, fluorescent lights and the like causing sync issues, etc... So I decided to go with Rogers since this house had modern RG-6 cabling.
I couldn't be happier with the service. The modem shows an SNR of 38.7(!), with a downsteam power level of -3dBmV and an upstream level of 44-45dBmV. Also, either the equipment in my area is really good or the node is lowly-populated, but I get 9996/990 even at primetime on the extreme package, as well as DSL-like latency - something I have never seen on cable.
My experience is probably rare and I probably just got lucky, but the quality of service is even better than that of Cogeco.
The only downside is the caps which are unreasonable for a 10Mbit connection, but Bell is even worse in this department. I only download 40-50GB a month, and having a 10Mbit connection there for when I do use Bittorrent is what's important to me.
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