cadsii
join:2007-07-31
canada
1 edit | reply to gamer11200
Re: Rogers to offer 50 megabit service for $149.99
ok guys you are missing the point,
if you wanna abuse and have 5-6 terabytes to fill this will be great...
5000-6000 gig take a while to fill
on my 10mbit connection i can only do about 104gigs a day
that would take about 60 days to fill
on this 50mbit connection it will only take about 10-12 days using newsgroups and maxing this faker out
if your already paying 149.99 just add the 25$ for max overage and abuse for a few months to fill those hard drives |
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spartan002
join:2008-12-22
Brampton, ON | reply to Eahaih
god bless you eeahaih you stole the words out of my mind. |
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metalhawk
join:2007-02-06
Nepean, ON
| reply to Stewy
said by Stewy  :said by metalhawk :Let's see. DSL at 1.5 mbps or Rogers at 10mbps for roughly the same price. It's not like I have much of a choice. For some 1.5Mbps on their feet is better than 10Mbps on their knees bent over. Just saying. For some, maybe. For most people that know the difference and even have 10 mbps in the first place, not even close. |
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Stewy
Premium
join:2007-12-12
Kitchener, ON
| reply to metalhawk
said by metalhawk :Let's see. DSL at 1.5 mbps or Rogers at 10mbps for roughly the same price. It's not like I have much of a choice. For some 1.5Mbps on their feet is better than 10Mbps on their knees bent over. Just saying. |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
Host:
Rogers
Bell Canada
| reply to kliles
said by kliles :Wasn't it some U.S. Senator (or perhaps a Congress-critter) who exclaimed "if you have nothing to hide, why are you using encryption?" (more or less). It's all about who you're hiding information FROM ... the assumption by the Senator is that you're hiding it from government.
I have little to hide, but that doesn't mean I want to broadcast it to the world! |
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metalhawk
join:2007-02-06
Nepean, ON
| reply to canDarian
said by canDarian :said by metalhawk :Let's see. DSL at 1.5 mbps or Rogers at 10mbps for roughly the same price. It's not like I have much of a choice. Teksavvy Primus and a litany of others offer dsl @5 mb they charge 29.99-39.99 Rogers charges 46.99 + access fees and plethora of equipment fees,I haven't been on Express before so I don't know if they can charge you above the 25$ overage charge @ 2$ a gig if they can charge beyond 25$ that will get expensive real fast.Either way it's $71.99 if you go over your paltry 60 gb limit. Teksavvy has there's @ 5mb/800k 200gb cap for 29.95 or remove the cap for 39.95. Primus has there's @ 5mb/800k no cap for 34.95. And there's plenty more,all I'm saying is there are plenty of decent ISP's.I refuse to give my patronage to company's that feel obligated to downgrade their service then offer an upgrade in service for a fee,if your ok with that then by all means keep paying and paying and paying... Where I live, the phone lines can't give me more than 1.5 mbps. It has nothing to do with Teksavvy or whichever other company that could give me good internet service. |
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kliles
join:2007-06-26
Mississauga, ON
| reply to canDarian
There are a lot of legitimate uses of a VPN. The fact that Rogers arbitrarily blocks content based on presumptions is THE problem. It appears that Rogers may not impose identical rules across their network - that too is a problem.
Wasn't it some U.S. Senator (or perhaps a Congress-critter) who exclaimed "if you have nothing to hide, why are you using encryption?" (more or less). |
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canDarian
join:2009-02-16
Waterloo, ON
1 edit | reply to metalhawk
said by metalhawk :Let's see. DSL at 1.5 mbps or Rogers at 10mbps for roughly the same price. It's not like I have much of a choice. Teksavvy Primus and a litany of others offer dsl @5 mb they charge 29.99-39.99 Rogers charges 46.99 + access fees and plethora of equipment fees,I haven't been on Express before so I don't know if they can charge you above the 25$ overage charge @ 2$ a gig if they can charge beyond 25$ that will get expensive real fast.Either way it's $71.99 if you go over your paltry 60 gb limit.
Teksavvy has there's @ 5mb/800k 200gb cap for 29.95 or remove the cap for 39.95.
Primus has there's @ 5mb/800k no cap for 34.95.
And there's plenty more,all I'm saying is there are plenty of decent ISP's.I refuse to give my patronage to company's that feel obligated to downgrade their service then offer an upgrade in service for a fee,if your ok with that then by all means keep paying and paying and paying... |
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metalhawk
join:2007-02-06
Nepean, ON
| reply to canDarian
said by canDarian :Just leave rogers,you all complain yet you still give them your money why would they change YOU WONT LEAVE. If Rogers saw even a 10% drop in Internet accounts canceled you dam well know that's going to get their attention. Rogers is easy to set up if you stay for that reason then you have no right to complain,there are plenty of viable competitors albeit they are freakishly annoying to get setup but imo nothing is more annoying then Rogers. And 149.99 for 50/2 @ 175 cap is a total freaking insult. Let's see. DSL at 1.5 mbps or Rogers at 10mbps for roughly the same price. It's not like I have much of a choice. |
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canDarian
join:2009-02-16
Waterloo, ON
1 edit | reply to Manesh
said by Manesh :I think some people try and make a problem out of nothing. I know about 10 different people on Rogers who use VPN with no issues. The fact that people need to use a VPN in the first place is a problem,the other fact is that some people do have their encrypted VPN traffic throttled. |
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Manesh
join:2005-07-29
| reply to gamer11200
Can someone please tell me why people always compare prices to the US? I don't understand that logic.
I think some people try and make a problem out of nothing. I know about 10 different people on Rogers who use VPN with no issues. I am not saying they don't throttle VPN at all, but the majority of people won't have an issue. |
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canDarian
join:2009-02-16
Waterloo, ON
| reply to gamer11200
Just leave rogers,you all complain yet you still give them your money why would they change YOU WONT LEAVE.
If Rogers saw even a 10% drop in Internet accounts canceled you dam well know that's going to get their attention.
Rogers is easy to set up if you stay for that reason then you have no right to complain,there are plenty of viable competitors albeit they are freakishly annoying to get setup but imo nothing is more annoying then Rogers.
And 149.99 for 50/2 @ 175 cap is a total freaking insult. |
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mlerner
Premium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to completidiot
Yeah 15 megs is no problem but most things you won't see anywhere near 50 mbps which means for most customers it's rather useless unless you have a big household. heh boost upstream, no they have the capability and they were supposed to reconfigure the node to handle better upstream but that hasn't happened. |
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completidiot
@rogers.com
| reply to cpsycho
These are not sites which are private. I am talking main stream sites including Microsoft, Dell and others where I download software and updates. I download stuff from them (like MSDN) and when I was using the Extreme before Ultimate, I was topping out at 1.8 MB/s.
Maybe I am lucky. When using speedtest.net I was consistently getting 15/16 Mb down and 957 Kb up. Now I am seeing 50 Mb down and 2 Mb up. And it is taking me half the time now to upload stuff to my servers. So in that case, it has already paid for itself in the one week I have had it. If they boost the upload to a faster speed (which is very doable as it constantly starts uploads faster than 2Mb) it will be even better.
The ironic thing is that I have faster service than the office which is a bonded 5 Mb DSL shared by 30 people. I just wish we had the FTP on the server we have at Q9 instead of at the office and then I would be able to stuff even faster. |
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giggabotch
join:2006-12-16
East York, ON
| reply to Nailbag
Unless Bell and Rogers start undercutting each others prices, which Bell can't afford to and Rogers doesn't have to, then I think we'll be living with these prices for awhile. |
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Nailbag
join:2001-10-16
London, ON
1 edit | reply to gamer11200
milking us more instead of installing FFTH and look at Verizons prices »/speak/slidesh···MTA0MDU4 |
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Stewy
Premium
join:2007-12-12
Kitchener, ON
| reply to gamer11200
I already pay $100/month for internet. $60 with Rogers and $40 with TSI.
The advantage is that I have more lanes but at present with TSI I simply tag newsgroup stuff to download and I don't really care how long it takes since my rogers lanes with VPN or gaming ect... are unaffected.
But with UBB that will be a whole other issue, if I am limited at 60Gb and then overages, it's going to be hard to justify staying with TSI and just go with the 25Mbps and 125Gig/month for the same price. The difference with DSL if/when UBB comes in will just be 30Gb less.
So
Cable 10Mbps 95Gb + DSL 2.5Mbps 200Gb/month = $100 295Gb
with UBB
Cable 10Mbps 95Gb + DSL 2.5Mbps 60Gb/month = $100 155Gb
or
Cable 25Mbps 125Gb/month = $100 (-30Gb/month) |
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fasterfaster
@rogers.com
| reply to gamer11200
I would be willing to pay extra for more speed and more bandwidth. However, the price to upgrade from Extreme is Extreme!!!! When you are looking at a cost that is nearly double you have to stop and pause.
Where is the upgrade for $10 or $20 more a month. A smaller incremental cost like that would be a no brainer. |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0 | reply to Manesh
Just because you can doesn't mean everyone can ... in many cases people have been/are throttled, including Michael Geist |
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Manesh
join:2005-07-29 | reply to gamer11200
They don't throttle VPN connections... I can work no problem at home |
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