said by BurlingtonGy :Well
my take on Daves question "So exactly WHY is START not worth it ?" ....
If you have been with Cogeco for all of 15 years, then that has to be for good reasons, and must count for something.
For that alone, I change my original position - you SHOULD think twice before changing, even if to the 400 GB plan which START first offered.
Also because of your long tenure with them, you likely use a Cogeco email address as your primary email anyway, so you would not have been exposed to, nor have noticed what so many others of us have, about Cogeco refusing to send notifications to external (non-Cogeco) email addresses, and their forwarding emails from Cogeco to elsewhere not working properly either.
And your Cogeco modem is not free - it is only included, and if it was extra, your base rate would be lower, more like how START does things.
Your bundle discount is good, but not fair to make part of the calculations, if to compare apples to apples.
I sincerely hope that you never exceed your monthly usage cap, nor get tired of checking to be sure that you do not exceed it.
Latency : Being near Cogeco HQ prob'ly does give you very low latency.
Just how low is it ?
Mine with START in Eastern Ontario is around 20ms, and my VoIP seems fine.
And I agree that each of us may have different priorities.
I even lowered my plan when START brought out the Feb revisions, from a 300 cap (grandfathered) to a 150 cap, same 20 Mbps speed, as I was not using near even the 150 GB.
Saved me $10 net per month.
Many folks would/could not have been in a position to do that.
When START's next plans are offered, I will give them due consideration, as I'm sure will yourself and everyone else.
Cheers !