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RogersElise
join:2010-09-08
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Re: Rogers Upstream Bonding

said by sbrook:

Just the GTA???

Hey there, sorry for taking a long time for responding.

We're implementing here a multi-year plan so we're starting with some areas in the GTA (not even the whole GTA), and we'll be slowly growing the areas that receive higher speeds over the years. However, the technology is changing very fast, so so making predictions about which areas can receive these speeds difficult.

kibosh
join:2010-12-16
Whitby, ON

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Whoa, wait . . . years?!?!?
resa1983
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join:2008-03-10
North York, ON

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Years.. wow.. Thats just pathetic.

Don't get me wrong, we want the better upload... But man.. You guys are so far behind Shaw & Bhell. :\

sbrook
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join:2001-12-14
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Or to put it another way, you're doing it in areas that you a) can get the most influence to make people "love Rogers", and b) that will provide direct competition with Bell.

Let's be honest, the next step in the cable vs DSL war on either side must be FTTH. By comparison, upstream channel bonding is inexpensive and after testing the areas for lack of leakage and interference, it shoud be a matter of a few months across Rogers Ontario networks. Years is a nonsense, because that's fibre.
Sanek
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said by RogersElise:

said by sbrook:

Just the GTA???

Hey there, sorry for taking a long time for responding.

We're implementing here a multi-year plan so we're starting with some areas in the GTA (not even the whole GTA), and we'll be slowly growing the areas that receive higher speeds over the years. However, the technology is changing very fast, so so making predictions about which areas can receive these speeds difficult.

... years? It's not rocket science you are dealing with here - the technology isn't even by any means new. Do you really think peoe will wait for you to catch up? With things like VOIP, YouTube, video calling, etc. upload gets utilized more and more. Rogers is already way behind and should at least do appropriate changes outside of GTA as well in places like Ottawa.

I hope they're not waiting until analog cable service gets shut down...

BliZZardX
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said by sbrook:

Let's be honest, the next step in the cable vs DSL war on either side must be FTTH

»www.scribd.com/doc/47777 ··· s-Rogers

JC_
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join:2010-10-19
Nepean, ON

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I agree with sbrook on both his points.

Upgrading the Rogers cable footprint in Ontario can't be that hard cause it's fairly small compared to what Shaw/Cogeco cover. Especially in a small city like Ottawa where there are only 3 headends it's not hard at all.
the cerberus
join:2007-10-16
Richmond Hill, ON

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Years, lol, heres my switch to vdsl partly because rogers cant compete...


jmck
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join:2010-10-02
Ottawa, ON

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they're probably only upgrading GTA areas where their provisioning/network engineering people live.

what's pathetic/sad is they will essentially give the new speeds away for 'free' to certain areas while the rest of Ontario will foot the bill.

DFProgrammer
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I was talking with tech earlier today (one of the ones that actually services the equipment) and he commented that we probably will not see upstream speeds increased until the cable tv side makes changes removing the analogue channels in the new year. Given that the cable and satellite companies have to unbundle the channels by April, this all makes sense. It is seems to make sense as well given that the US started to see speed increases once they have gone fully HD and started to go fully digital on the cable side.

Not exactly the news we would like to see but it does begin to make sense. Just connecting some of the dots here. Not sure if this is the case or not but could explain why we haven't seen any speed increases even though the bonding within the modems has started to occur.