jvanbrecht
join:2007-01-08
Bowie, MD | Aside from the other issues involved...
The actual numbers are not way out there... I am a heavy user (FIOS though), but even I have a hard time hitting 20 to 30 gig a month... although I do not download music/movies (mostly ISO's for various BSD distros) |
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chronoss2008
Premium
join:2008-03-29
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
3 edits | haha
Welcome to the high expenses
ENJOY that next bill
im going to laugh my butt off as the guy downstairs gets a bill for internet and goes AHHHHHHHH!!
20-30GB?
are you serious do you get tv from bittorrent as i do, its easy for me to do 130-150GB a month JUST for me watching tv
now tell me with the above pricing what I would pay and why Rogers just started doing it self out of business
90 extra GB = 180 $ for a 7 megabit account
WTF
they just made bittorrent or the net UNFEASABLE to get movies or buy anything
SMART MOVE ROGERS
over price the per GB by a factor of 3
Why is it i can buy a business server with 3 terabytes of data for only 80-90USD/month ( 80-90 Canadian ) |
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TigerLord
Resident Pentaxian
Premium,Mod
join:2002-06-09
Montreal | Deja Vu
Extreme 95GB
Extreme Plus 95GB
Ya, almost twice the speed, same cap. Thank you for the 25¢ discount on Extreme Plus!
Vidéotron started doing this a year ago. |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
 ·Site5.com
·AT&T Midwest
 ·Comcast
| reply to chronoss2008
Re: haha
said by chronoss2008  :Welcome to the high expenses ENJOY that next bill im going to laugh my butt off as the guy downstairs gets a bill for internet and goes AHHHHHHHH!! 20-30GB? are you serious do you get tv from bittorrent as i do, its easy for me to do 130-150GB a month JUST for me watching tv now tell me with the above pricing what I would pay and why Rogers just started doing it self out of business 90 extra GB = 180 $ for a 7 megabit account WTF they just made bittorrent or the net UNFEASABLE to get movies or buy anything SMART MOVE ROGERS over price the per GB by a factor of 3 Why is it i can buy a business server with 3 terabytes of data for only 80-90USD/month ( 80-90 Canadian ) Sounds like you should invest in cable TV and a DVR.  |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
·Site5.com
·AT&T Midwest
·Comcast
| Responses are the same
Just like every other announcement when a broadband ISP says they are going to start capping and charging for over the cap usage. Various users chiming in on how they are/aren't affected. The ones that aren't affected just shrug this off. The ones that are affected bitch and complain.
The end result is the same. You either pay up and keep your line, or drop them and move to another provider if you have that option. If you do pay up and keep it, you find ways to limit your usage below the cap.
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My domain - Nightfall.net |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to Nightfall
Re: haha
Cable TV... from Rogers, of course! |
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TigerLord
Resident Pentaxian
Premium,Mod
join:2002-06-09
Montreal | reply to chronoss2008
I highly doubt Rogers wants to encourage you in your illegal activities! |
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zod5000
join:2003-10-21
Edmonton, AB | reply to jvanbrecht
Re: Aside from the other issues involved...
20-30 gigs isn't heavy usage.. lol! |
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adisor19
join:2004-10-11
·Velcom
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Radioactif
·Videotron
·Look Communications
| reply to TigerLord
Re: haha
said by TigerLord :I highly doubt Rogers wants to encourage you in your illegal activities! WRONG!
Downloading TV shows in Canada is perfectly LEGAL.
Adi |
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adisor19
join:2004-10-11
·Velcom
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Radioactif
·Videotron
·Look Communications
| reply to TigerLord
Re: Deja Vu
said by TigerLord :Extreme 95GB Extreme Plus 95GB Ya, almost twice the speed, same cap. Thank you for the 25¢ discount on Extreme Plus! Vidéotron started doing this a year ago. Indeed, Videotron started raping its customers by breaching their contracts ! Very classy.
Anyone know if Robbers is doing the same thing to their users ? Or are they at least waiting until the end of their contract ?
Adi |
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zod5000
join:2003-10-21
Edmonton, AB
·TELUS
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Overage price's seem a bit high?
1.25/gig, we know wholesale bandwidth doesn't cost much more than 10 cents/gig?
I guess though, this is aimed at curbing usage, and getting people to use less, rather then find ways for the customers to get access to more bandwidth. That way they can lower the load on infrastructure that already is in bad need of upgrading. |
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koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| said by zod5000 :1.25/gig, we know wholesale bandwidth doesn't cost much more than 10 cents/gig? I agree. These limits are absolutely outrageous; not even co-location providers charge that kind of over-usage, nor have that kind of 95th-percentile cap.
I mean, the most expensive tier has a 95GByte/month cap?! Completely unreasonable. Rogers should multiply the cap amounts by 4, or at bare minimum, 2. |
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TigerLord
Resident Pentaxian
Premium,Mod
join:2002-06-09
Montreal | reply to adisor19
Re: haha
He said movies. |
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Enlightener
join:2006-01-28
Cedar Park, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
2 edits | Wow
I'm a little lazy with my math right now, but I've got an AT&T U-Verse MAXX that can sustain around 900K/sec. That's about 2200GB of traffic it could push if running full out for 30 days. Based on a 95GB cap, that looks like they are expecting customers to be 96% idle.
Put another way, they don't want your average bandwidth to exceed 256kbps. |
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stunod2002
join:2003-11-07
Carol Stream, IL | Screwed!
I guess this will kill the new Netflix service!!!
2 or more PC's downloading a service pack.. Your screwed..
I'm thinking Rogers is going to be loosing a few customers from this one... |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to koitsu
Re: Overage price's seem a bit high?
said by koitsu :not even co-location providers charge that kind of over-usage, nor have that kind of 95th-percentile cap. Considering ISPs providing last-mile service have additional infrastructure expansion/maintenance costs and larger support tails than co-lo facilities, the overage premiums are justifiable IMO. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Enlightener
Re: Wow
said by Enlightener :Based on a 95GB cap, that looks like they are expecting customers to be 96% idle. I'm sure they don't expecting customers to be 100% active |
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SilverSurfer
join:2007-08-19
| reply to Nightfall
Re: Responses are the same
said by Nightfall : If you do pay up and keep it, you find ways to limit your usage below the cap. Which is fine if you only check email and the weather. The rest of us who actually use the connection we thought we were paying for get the shaft. |
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ggultra2764
join:2007-09-13
Cambridge, NY | Overage the same for all tiers.
Why not just make the overage fees at the same set price per tier? Would seem more reasonable than punishing those with less bandwidth speed with a higher overage fee.  |
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greendragon
Premium
join:2003-09-20
Stewartville, MN
| reply to TigerLord
Re: haha
quote:
He said movies.
uh huh... Really? Is that all he said?
quote:
do you get tv from bittorrent as i do, its easy for me to do 130-150GB a month JUST for me watching tv
Oh and:
quote:
I highly doubt Rogers wants to encourage you in your illegal activities!
I download movies all the time from Cinemanow.com that I BOUGHT!
Stop being an ass. |
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