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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:12:29 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>[Eastern Ontario] modem resetting</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23403148</link>
<description><![CDATA[lately I've been having problems with my modem. its a rca model number: DHG535-2. it seems to be resetting on its own. happens randomly between 5-25mins of being on the internet/xbox live. Been happening for the past two and a half months. Getting very frustrated now as Cogeco doesnt seem to want to help and I've tried just about everything i can think of. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-27 14:49:15</pubDate>
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<title>Will Rogers on Demand Online compete with Cogeco&#x27;s Cable?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23387780</link>
<description><![CDATA[The service will be available to any Rogers subscriber to any Rogers service is in in SD and HD. So, even if you are just subscribing to one Fido phone in an otherwise TELUS, Bell, Teksavvy, Primus, or Cogeco household, you will be able to get a free account.
Premium Services you will need to be a subscriber.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-24 08:56:35</pubDate>
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<title>[Niagara] What a JOKE!</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23386864</link>
<description><![CDATA[ We just got Cogeco.. I was all excited until I got this for a bandwidth test...

Speed Test #82398069 by dslreports.com
Run: 2009-11-23 23:55:34 EST
Download: 8639 (Kbps)
Upload: 1039 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 1054.6 down 126.8 up
Tested by server: 7 java
User: 2 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: cgocable.net
Compared to the average of 341 tests from cgocable.net:
* download is 9% worse, upload is 10% better

  The funny thing is.. When they were here today, it was great at about 14000Kbps down..  Where it's supposed to be.. then tonight I started noticing lag in some games and downloading of the web..  I got rid of Bell because of this..   IS THERE NOT A RELIABLE ISP ANYMORE????]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-24 00:02:54</pubDate>
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<title>business starter package, $10 gig overcharge?!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I signed up for business starter package, thought I'd give it a try.

Got my first bill today (btw, it was wrong) and on it states :

"Internet bandwidth limit (upload/download) exceeded (per GB) - $10.00"*

* Bases on High Speed Internet Service you subscribed to.

Is this for real?   $10/gb overcharge?  If this is true I'm calling up tomorrow and telling them to remove everything.  what a f****** ripoff!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-09-28 19:35:19</pubDate>
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<title>Throttling of NNTP traffic ??</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23395843</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi there, 

Up until Thursday of last week I've noticed my NNTP traffic over port: 563 is consistently being kept to 256KB/s, before it would usually be within the of 1700/1900.  

For sh*t & giggles I hard reset my cogeco modem, bypassed router, used 3 separate notebooks running, OS's (vista x64, backtrack 3 *nix xp sp3...) all max out at, 256 max!  I tried using a friends usenet provider also, encrypted SSL & un-encrypted same result, 256Kbs. Went next door, neighbors cogeco connection maxs out at 500Kbs.

I took all 3 of my notebooks to work, was able to max it out at 2000 without any software config changes, other then the different dhcp ip lease. 

Although I do not trust web speed tests, up/down bandwidth is reporting expected levels for cogeco standard from home, no speed issues downloading directly from ftp sites, or straight from the web..

Contacted Cogeco tech support, they advised modem line quality tests were fine, low latency, they insisted that its a pc config issue. The supervisor I spoke with advised cogeco does not throttle nntp traffic at this time.

Several other colleagues from work are reporting similar caps when downloading over usenet, encrypted & unencrypted, doesn't seem to be time specific middle of the day, middle of the night. Most seem to be capped at around 500.

I am wondering how many others are experiencing this?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-25 17:05:42</pubDate>
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<title>Anyone else in southern niagara get the rest of HD channels?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23399179</link>
<description><![CDATA[As most people in welland, port colborne, fort erie, and so forth have only been getting half the HD channels that other cogeco subscribes have been getting. As lines have been updated and cogeco is activating the other HD channels node by node. Just want to ask people who live in these areas if they have got the new channels yet? i'm in east-end welland off southworth and don't have the channels yet a customer of mine a couple blocks on the other side of the street do have them. Let me know. thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-26 12:45:06</pubDate>
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<title>Rogers Raises Cogeco Stakes for C$163 Million</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23400938</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Rogers Communications Inc., Canada&#146;s biggest wireless company, raised its stake in Cogeco Inc. and a subsidiary for C$163 million ($153.7 million), giving it almost a third of the cable television rival.

Rogers agreed to buy 1.62 million subordinate voting shares of Cogeco for C$46.4 million, and 3.2 million shares of its subsidiary Cogeco Cable Inc. for C$116.6 million in cash, the Toronto-based company said today in a statement.

Rogers may be increasing its stake in the Montreal-based cable TV operator to prepare for a possible acquisition and bolster television revenue, said National Bank Financial analyst Greg MacDonald. Rogers gets about a third of sales from wired telecommunications, which includes cable, Internet and home- phone service.

&#147;Taking its position higher only makes sense if over the long term it has ambitions of owning the whole company,&#148; said MacDonald. He has a &#147;sector perform&#148; rating on Rogers and Cogeco Cable.

Rogers, the biggest holder of the non-voting shares in both companies, &#147;has no current intention of acquiring ownership of or control&#148; of Cogeco, the company said in the statement.

The purchases increase Rogers&#146;s equity stake in Cogeco to about 30 percent, and 20 percent for Cogeco Cable, which says it&#146;s the second-biggest cable operator in Ontario, Quebec and Portugal, based on basic subscribers.

Rogers fell 49 cents, or 1.5 percent, to C$32.26 at 4:10 p.m. in Toronto Stock Exchange trading. Cogeco Inc. jumped C$1.86, or 7.4 percent, to C$27. Cogeco Cable gained C$1.66, or 5 percent, to C$35.10, the biggest gain in almost six months. Cogeco Cable has a market value of C$1.7 billion.

Rogers paid C$36.43 for each Cogeco Cable share, and C$28.61 for the Cogeco Inc. shares. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aMLfwYC4RBeM]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-26 22:25:02</pubDate>
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<title>[Burloak] Confirming $30 max charge for overages</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23371489</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hey there,

I rent out two of my bedrooms to 2 other guys, both also heavy internet users..we've been trying to stay within 60 gigs, but I'm not sure what they did this month, but we hit 60 gigs Nov 11, so we are well over right now, I'm at $21 in overages. If the max charge for High speed Standard is indeed $30, then I might as well tell them to do whatever they want the rest of the month.

But reading on Cogeco's website, I noticed their message "If the Customer exceeds this limit, the Customer may be charged up to a maximum of $10.00 per 1 Gigabyte for both upstream and/or downstream traffic."

I'd hate to download an additional 50 gigs and find out I now somehow owe $500 .. can someone confirm it is a max charge of $30? Or even better, show me the page on Cogeco that says that? I've searched through the forums, but haven't found any hard evidence?

Thank!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-20 16:03:37</pubDate>
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<title>[Windsor] Cogeco super slow at night.</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22983724</link>
<description><![CDATA[

It's fine in the day, I'll get like 10 mbps during the day time but when it's peak times (7:00pm ish) this is what happens. It gets worst as the night goes on as well. Downloading stuff becomes absurdly slow. It's very annoying. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-09-06 21:17:34</pubDate>
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<title>[Eastern Ontario] Cogeco Domain Registration - Support lack of k</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23386773</link>
<description><![CDATA[Long story short - One of my customers has their e-mail and web site hosted by Cogeco. Cogeco is a reseller for tucows, Cogeco registers the domain with tucows and charges my customer. Cogeco then does the dns, e-mail and http. Fair enough, all good so far.

I want to transfer the domain, but the Administrative Contact e-mail is wrong. In my 3 calls to Cogeco Business support, including escalation to a Supervisor, I am being told there is NO WAY to change the Administrative e-mail record. WTF

This is simply not true, (everyone knows that, except Cogeco support) as per tucows faq:

http://helpcenter.tucows.com/index.php?lang=en&catnr=28&faqnr=337&prog=TFC#How%20do%20I%20update%20my%20admin%20contact%20info%20before%20my%20transfer?

And the page to do it:

http://adminchange.com/

It also appears Cogeco will not supply your domain management user name and password to you either... but I didn't push too hard for that as I was already mad. I could complain to tucows, but why bother?

I might have found a bug in Cogeco support staff training or procedures. 

Hopefully, this will stay in the forums and be search-able by the next cogeco domain customer that gets frustrated.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-23 23:39:43</pubDate>
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