Hench
join:2013-03-07
Halton Hills | Where are people getting cable faster than 60 Mbps I live in Halton hills/Georgetown Cogeco land. I keep reading that people in rogers areas north of Toronto and such can get 150 Mbps or faster internet. What is the penetration rate for those types of speeds?
I've gotten 60 down from Cogeco/Start since day one it was offered by Cogeco (in fact it seems to pull as high as 68 according to my freeware meter) and rarely ever drops below 54 even Sunday nights. We got 8 channel downstream the first day Cogeco implemented it across thier territory. When Cogeco first offered 30 Mbps, our street got it right away. I'm just blessed by have a great Cogeco connection
I'm thinking that if Cogeco ever went over 60 Mbps, it'd be available in my neighbourhood very quickly but how many people in rogers land can get 150 Mbps and when would cogeco ever offer those types of speeds, even in a great neighbourhood like mine... Furthurmore would Start be allowed to offer a package on those faster speeds right away as well?
BTW Bell finally got around to increasing their speed from 5 Mbps to 15 MBps last month on my street. |
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TypeS
join:2012-12-17
London, ON
kudos:1 | The 150/10Mbps tier, AFAIK, is available anywhere Rogers Internet is available. |
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 MJB
join:2012-01-29
 ·ACN DSL
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| cable is shared... rogers has more customers and is over subscribed... basically.. the more users the slower it is.. vdsl is better if your area has it.... this is what we get when we pay big telecom follow the money... part of the system has to fail for it to collapse.. |
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| Don't believe all the marketing hype. xDSL is shared too, just further up the line. Bell can suffer from congestion as well.
On cable it's more likely because there isn't really a physical limit on how many people they put on a node, whereas with DSL there are so many ports. |
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JMCD23
join:2010-12-06
London, ON | reply to MJB
said by MJB:cable is shared... rogers has more customers and is over subscribed... basically.. the more users the slower it is.. vdsl is better if your area has it.... this is what we get when we pay big telecom follow the money... part of the system has to fail for it to collapse..
Well that's a big load of misinformation right there. Roger's generally isn't oversubscribed, no more than Bell would be. Most people on the 150mbps tier have no problem hitting those speeds with the proper hardware. VDSL is not necessarily better - entirely depends on your area. |
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mikee
join:2012-12-21
Gloucester, ON | reply to Hench
I'm on 150/10 in ottawa. I always get over 143mbps~149mbps atleast.
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| I wonder why none of 150\10 tiers can't hit full 150+mbit.
Every other profile is provisioned to be a little faster, actually, but, not 150\10.
I am getting the same results.
(It is only few megs, but, still don't see why).
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mikee
join:2012-12-21
Gloucester, ON | reply to Hench
yeah strange... when i test any other server other than start's i seem to get less upload too & higher ping... 
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| Not fair, that is how i see it. |
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| reply to ilLoveStart
Might be due to how start is running their profiles. Basically they are signing everyone up for 150/10 on Rogers end, even if they only order say 30/10 from Start. They then limit the customer to their requested profile. For the profiles less than the full 150/10, Start overprovisions them a bit (cause they are cool like that). On the 150/10, it' just coming at the Max speed Rogers will provide, Start can't overprovision those. |
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