kliles
join:2007-06-26
Mississauga, ON
| reply to canDarian
Re: Rogers to offer 50 megabit service for $149.99
There are a lot of legitimate uses of a VPN. The fact that Rogers arbitrarily blocks content based on presumptions is THE problem. It appears that Rogers may not impose identical rules across their network - that too is a problem.
Wasn't it some U.S. Senator (or perhaps a Congress-critter) who exclaimed "if you have nothing to hide, why are you using encryption?" (more or less). |
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metalhawk
join:2007-02-06
Nepean, ON
| reply to canDarian
said by canDarian  :said by metalhawk :Let's see. DSL at 1.5 mbps or Rogers at 10mbps for roughly the same price. It's not like I have much of a choice. Teksavvy Primus and a litany of others offer dsl @5 mb they charge 29.99-39.99 Rogers charges 46.99 + access fees and plethora of equipment fees,I haven't been on Express before so I don't know if they can charge you above the 25$ 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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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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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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metalhawk
join:2007-02-06
Nepean, ON
| 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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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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cadsii
join:2007-07-31
canada
1 edit | reply to gamer11200
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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