stern_howie
join:2006-08-29
Beverly Hills, CA | reply to gurn
Re: 60G=2000+ hours of online play!?
this is marketing hype plain and simple...
I'm a manager for tech team and we wrestle constantly with the marketing team who tend to want to overstate our services |
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anonnotreally
@grouptelecom.net | reply to gurn
you're being metered at the modem, so although your computer is off or seems too be idle, your modem is still accepting updates etc.so turn it off or unplug at the modem when off for long periods. You're metered both up and down, remember that. |
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gurn
@rogers.com
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"After you screw Rogers like that a few times, they will cut off your service and black-ball you."
i've gone way way over the caps in the past and not a peep. I've been shut off once when i had a virus spaming 10000 emails an hour. Rogers rep offered to turn the service back on so that i could update my virus protection and clean it. I fixed it and they turned it on. That was actually my last outage in kitchener. 2 years ago.
Do you really think they want to toss your $50 a month? let alone the publicity for doing so.
Maybe if you did 1000 gigs metalhawk, Did you say that from experence? |
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metalhawk
join:2007-02-06
Nepean, ON
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said by Anon329480 :It averages to about 2 gigs per day which is not a lot. Well for me at least. I like to play games while downloading stuff at the same time. I'm on Express and they sent me a graph showing that I used up 110 gigs which was almost 2 times my limit last month but I guess paying for an extra 25 bucks for 'unlimited' download is not all that bad.  After you screw Rogers like that a few times, they will cut off your service and black-ball you. |
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Anon329480
@rogers.com
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It averages to about 2 gigs per day which is not a lot. Well for me at least. I like to play games while downloading stuff at the same time. I'm on Express and they sent me a graph showing that I used up 110 gigs which was almost 2 times my limit last month but I guess paying for an extra 25 bucks for 'unlimited' download is not all that bad. |
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buttaknife
join:2007-06-01 | reply to gurn
Well, it's their job to make things look nice and pretty to the average user who doesn't understand the technicalities of it all. That way they get less backlash. |
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gurn
@rogers.com
| Did some searching to see how much the most popular online game (World of warcraft) uses an hour during high demanding bandwidth (40 man raiding) I've come up with around 30Mbyte/hour.
Ya really its not a lot. I thought it would be more too. If you were to play 24 hours for 31 days, that would be 744 hours max. (btw you'd be dead but lets skip that)
30Mbyte/hour equals out to be 744x30Mb just over 22gig.
Why did rogers give an example with 2000+ hours with only 744 hours possible in a month. well some households have more then 1 WOW user. For example me and my girlfriend used to play at the same time.
Keep in mind even the hardcore WOW player isn't playing much longer then 8 to 16 hours a day so even these numbers exaggerated.
60000Mb(ruffly 60gig)/30Mb/hour=2000 hours
I'm not very technical so if my numbers are flawed feel free to correct/flame whatever i don't mind. |
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