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Re: [Extreme] rogers kills bittorrent The funny thing about the throttling is now my down is 5kb and my upstream is a solid 40kb or much higher if I turn the 40KB limit off. So how does throttling help in this situation?
I feel it’s another way for Rogers to deter you from using BT, as your upload ratio will kill you, say I download a gig, by the time that’s done I’ve uploaded 4 or 5 gigs, with a total to my cap of 5 – 6 gigs for what the 1 gig I actually got. |
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 sbrookPremium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
Ottawa
kudos:4 | The idea is to get you so cheesed off you don't want to use BT. |
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| Yes, exactly! It’s working too; I am pretty cheesed off about it. lol |
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| reply to m00nstone
Does anybody know if Rogers has DSL Internet Services and what is the internet speed? And how can I break the contract with them, because I have a 2 years contract! What should i tell them? That I can't do fast piracy with them? :d 10q |
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| Well you could quote the contract which gives them the right to change pretty much whatever they want and you have, as your only recourse, cancelling. However you would have to make the case that you are cancelling because of a material change in the service and so are not subject to two year contract. If they refuse I'd expect the only thing you could do it either continue to complain or go to Small Claims Court. The latter costs about $175 and I doubt they'd bother to show up. I recently won $1,800 from an unnamed computer company whose product did not meet its description - despite all the good words that they weren't liable for errors, omissions etc. |
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 mordin42 inches of 1080pPremium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB | reply to Fellow Reader
said by Fellow Reader :
rogers will just say if its for commercial use then you would need to sign up for a business account..
Except Rogers won't let you sign up for a business account at a residential address.
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I used to work in sales for Rogers Cable. Quite possibly one of the worst sales jobs you can possibly have. When things on the network change, they never supplied enough information for me to be able to justify it. I'm glad I left well before the throttling began... the b/w cap was hard enough to deal with.
From the inside, they try to brain wash us to think they are the superior service. Rogers is like a souped-up car with nothing but a really big engine and nice paint job. What good's all that without a decent tranny, or tires, or exhaust, etc.
If I had control over my ISP I'd drop this in a minute. The majority of my b/w is p2p data, so for the next 2 years living here i'm stuck asking my buddies to d/l for me. In the meantime, F bitttorent, I'm going back to my IRC channels.  |
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