| Canada's Internet Among Best!? Interesting read:
»news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03···ort-says
»www.lya.com/en/spotlight/rogers_form.php
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JAC70
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canada | The report...was produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc.
I think we can all safely disregard this "report". |
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| said by JAC70:The report...was produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc.
I think we can all safely disregard this "report".
Yup, the way they calculate the price is interesting. :-D
Canada has the 2nd least expensive price... |
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"The report, based on the results of 52 million speed tests"
That explains it. Basically, Rogers is cheating the system. Between their immense throttling (which isn't reflected in speed tests) and Rogers' bullshit 'SpeedBoost' technology, whose sole purpose is to artificially inflate speed test figures, the results greatly misrepresent what type of speeds Canadians ACTUALLY get.
For example, I have a 32 megabit line. Speed tests place me at 70-100 megabits per second. When I'm downloading via P2P, I rarely achieve over 100KBPS. That's one 40th of my listed line speed and about one 100th of my Speedtest.net result. So the figures are meaningless because Rogers cheats. |
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We can ignore it ... The trouble is, our regulators don't! |
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The real interesting part: "Rogers’ overall monthly subscription price is slightly higher than the Canadian average, at $31.18 per month."
I am on Lite (I mainly use the Internet Connection for checking email, connecting to the Amazon EC2 cloud, and watch some YouTube, so I don't really need a high bandwidth connection) and the standard price is $36/month. I need to spend some time to find out why the "Canadian average" is so low in the report.
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said by Rayson 
Canada has the 2nd least expensive price...
France has real competition and doesn't do these "tiers". You get the fastest speed you can get at your home, whether on cable, DSL or FTTH. So if your home is hooked to fibre, you can get 100/10Meg for the same price, which BTW is generally 35 Euro (works out to less than $50 Cdn) for their triple play, including taxes/fee, etc..
With that you also get: TV (HD-PVR included), Home phone with calling to 103+ countries (all features included, of course), and even cell phone service (60 Mins, Free CID/VM, 60 SMS/MMS). You can even upgrade the cell phone service to unlimited voice (to 40 countries), SMS/MMS + 3GB data for 16 euros more.
Oh, and no throttling, CAP either. And people think we are the best? Get your head out of the the sand and look around. |
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Similar to a commercial here in Michigan (don't know how wide spread it's shown) about Charter being rated the #1 ISP in America by PC Magazine. I think that was the magazine anyway. Can't find a link any where to it, at the moment.
Don't have a clue what those people might have been on?! Had to have been something MUCH stronger than just smoking some local wacky tobacco!!
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It look someone was sleeping when they were doing this because how can you justify a country's broadband speed by how many people doing speed tests, a lot of people from other country that has fiber connection. I highly doubt they will do a speed test that doesn't make use of their connection, also it's waste of their valuable time when they can do something more enjoyable with their 100Mb/s or 1Gb/s full duplex connection. For people who say Canada is too large or vast to lay fiber. If my memory serves me right Russia was in the process of laying fiber optics for it citizens and this is was a few years back, the best part about it there no caps. Russia is much larger country in population and land mass than Canada. The biggest problem about Canada is there just too many greedy bureaucrat that are lap dogs of the incubators. By the time anyone can lay fiber, they wouldn't have the funds to lay actual fiber because their fund gets sucked dry by the bureaucrats. The project gets canned. |
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| said by t3nk3n: For people who say Canada is too large or vast to lay fiber.
Not a big fan of Rogers, but with a quick Google search:
Population density:
Russia: 8.3/km2
Canada: 3.4/km2
So it really is more expensive to offer internet access in Canada... (in general, not only Internet access, everything is more expensive in Canada!)
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| said by Rayson:said by t3nk3n: For people who say Canada is too large or vast to lay fiber.
Not a big fan of Rogers, but with a quick Google search: Population density: Russia: 8.3/km2 Canada: 3.4/km2 So it really is more expensive to offer internet access in Canada... (in general, not only Internet access, everything is more expensive in Canada!) ================================= Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine » gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ Those figures are misleading because most of Canada is uninhabited. Canada's population density actually isn't that low when you consider the fact that the vast majority of the country is empty. Over 90% of the population lives in the southern most 150-200 kilometers of the country. Everything else is virtually barren.
Because of that, Rogers would only need to lay this fiber throughout small fractions of the country. For example, it's not as though most of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, or Yukon would need this fiber. The same goes for northern Quebec and large sections of the Prairies and BC. Rogers would only need to set up a large grid in the southern 150-200km, and then sent some fiber cabling to certain individual cities that fall outside that range. But the rest of the country doesn't need it because no one lives there. |
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