raye
Premium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA | 2 Mbps upload?
Are you kidding me? Why bother with this tier it is useless IMO |
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zod5000
join:2003-10-21
Edmonton, AB
 ·TELUS
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Whats the point of ultrafast internet with such small caps.
What's the point of having a 50mbps connection when it can only consume 125 gigs. Someone who wants that kind of speed is not your average joe, and will want to consume some serious bandwidth.
50mb is 6.25 megabyter a second. 375/minute. 22.5 gigs an hour. 540 gigs a day.
So if you ran flatout, you'd use your cap in 5.5 hours. I wish the CRTC would do some real regulating. IE if your going to advertise high speed, a client should be able to use it full out a certain percentage of the month. 5 or 10 percent maybe, a few days worth.
being able to hit the cap in 5.5 hours is not good. |
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mlerner
Premium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON | reply to raye
Re: 2 Mbps upload?
Unfortunately it's because of the upstream issues, they are starting to fix it with channel bonding and increasing the upstream channels but there is still much work to do. |
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Pizz
Hi
join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY
·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Why do you think Time Warner Cable
Is waiting on releasing their Docsis 3.0 plans? They're trying so hardly to bring back their inept CBB, and they've always used Canadian Cable Service as a rallying cry for it.
I hope you moosers, don't sign up for this, and tell them to stick it.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to zod5000
Re: Whats the point of ultrafast internet with such small caps.
Not to mention that Docsis 3.0 was suppose to eliminate the need for caps. That's like taking a 2 lane road with no shoulders and turning it into a 6 lane highway with full shoulders but still insisting the speed limit needs to be 30 MPH. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to zod5000
said by zod5000  :What's the point of having a 50mbps connection when it can only consume 125 gigs. So you can do the things you want/need to do more efficiently. I've wasted too much time waiting for files to transfer. I'm not going to increase my file sizes, but if I could transfer them quicker, I'd be very happy. Bandwidth availability is not a direct link to increased usage. Personally, I wouldn't mind having 50 Mbps with a cap, but I'm not willing to pay that much money. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to BF69
said by BF69 :Not to mention that Docsis 3.0 was suppose to eliminate the need for caps. It was? |
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koreyb
join:2005-01-08
Etobicoke, ON | Caps
HAHAHAH... Caps are here to stay... Too much extra money to be had! What happens with a 2 party system. |
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pspcrazy
Anime Freak
join:2008-02-06
San Diego, CA
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to raye
Re: 2 Mbps upload?
OMG i laughed so hard when i lol saw that.
Just letting you guys know the over head to have 50 mbit is nearly 2-3 mbit upload, good luck with that lol. Worst Tier ever.
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raye
Premium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA | reply to mlerner
then they should advertise this as DOCSIS 3.0
I get 2 Mbps+ upload with DOCSIS 2.0 |
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Thane_Bitter
join:2005-01-20
London, ON
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to koreyb
Re: Caps
said by koreyb :HAHAHAH... Caps are here to stay... Too much extra money to be had! What happens with a 2 party system
Rogers / Bell Duopoly. 
Monthly caps reached within 1/4 of a day – impressive. |
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pspcrazy
Anime Freak
join:2008-02-06
San Diego, CA
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to openbox9
Re: Whats the point of ultrafast internet with such small caps.
At the moment when a new show comes out i view it in the normal SD quality. When faster internet comes you bet i'll be viewing the HD quality.
So the whole discussion of using the same file size is again based on the user, not YOU. Some users will use more, the faster speeds they get. Other's won't, that's life.
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raye
Premium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA | reply to raye
Re: 2 Mbps upload?
NOT advertise as DOCSIS 3.0 (sorry typo) |
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mlerner
Premium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON | reply to raye
It is DOCSIS 3 but they have not yet implemented all of changes required to support higher upstream speeds. |
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jeffster1970
Whatta Ya Think About Dat?
Premium
join:2004-04-01
Kitchener, ON
clubs: 
 ·magicjack.com
·Vonage
·Acanac
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to raye
I was cool with it until I saw the cap and the extra $$$ to have it...what's the whoe point of this again? Those types of speeds are meant for serious downloading. Which is good if you're home for 6 hours a month...otherwise, Rogers is just ripping off their customer once again.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY FASTER and WAAAAAAAAAAAAY Stupider.
Maybe for the Nimrods that sign up this, remember, this isn't helping the Toronto Blue Jays at all, they are getting ride of Halladay, so think before you sign. |
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MATA7
join:2005-05-29
Mississauga, ON | crap more crap
what crap company ridicules, so glad that i cancel all my service whit rogers years ago
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to openbox9
Re: Whats the point of ultrafast internet with such small caps.
said by openbox9 :said by BF69 :Not to mention that Docsis 3.0 was suppose to eliminate the need for caps. It was? yep. ISPs have said 2 things
A) caps are needed because of "congestion"
B) those moving to docsis 3.0 brag about how it will relieve congestion.
So I'm just using their own words. So you make a case for caps because of congestion and you now have docsis 3.0 you can't claim congestion when you've stated your advantage over your competition is that your network will be less congested because of docsis 3.0 |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to pspcrazy
said by pspcrazy :At the moment when a new show comes out i view it in the normal SD quality. When faster internet comes you bet i'll be viewing the HD quality. But by doing that you risk going over your cap since a HD stream uses more bandwidth. And that's the rub. Besides no HD streams are over 3 Mbps so you certainly don't need 50 Mbps to view them. What you have now probably suffices. |
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO
1 edit | 125 GB a month .. Looks like comcast is good to us!!
Where are the Anti Comcast fans? This cap is just plan nuts 125 GB a month,Hmmmm and Comcast gives us 250 a month TY CC you rock. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
|  Combined router/cable modem not best way to go
Aside from any other issues like caps/upload speeds/etc., having a cable modem with a built-in router is not a good way to go for the people that might want these higher speeds(high tech aware users). And that is because these gateway devices usually have minimal ability for the customer to modify them. They are often centrally managed devices(like all cable modems). And the target audience would usually prefer the ability to configure routers themselves.
Besides N-routers can be gotten for much less than the $200 that these will eventually sell for.
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