rossco2006
join:2006-07-30
Keswick, ON
1 edit | reply to Manesh
Re: [Extreme] Hot off the wire: Rogers annouces 18Meg service
said by Manesh :
Can someone please show me a ISP thats 20mbps with UNLIMTIED access...I know there wont be any out there....
»https://www.bethere.co.uk/
24mmbps/1.3mbps/no cap
In europe there are lots of ISPs over 20mbps with NO cap.
Doubt there's anything in north america that fast though. |
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kareshi7
join:2003-03-17
Markham, ON | "The service will have a monthly fee of $99.95 and will include an industry leading 100 GB of usage."
LEADING is unlimited |
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anon2222333
@rogers.com | In Rogers eyes "industry" is Bell and Rogers. So going by that then they are industry leading. We of course see things differently. |
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thenay
join:2004-10-05
Brampton, ON
| reply to hopetindall
I'm sure Extreme will be upgraded to 9mbps or sumthin, which is good enough for me. Look at Bell Optimax, it makes more sense and i'm sure Rogers will do sumthin similar.
Also the $1.25/GB fee after 100GB, I'm guessing they'll add that to other plans too? If so, I guess they won't downgrade users anymore huh? Just charge them up the rear.. lol |
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jono181
join:2004-06-05
Toronto, ON
| reply to hopetindall
I mean if Rogers doesn't up the speed for the extreme speed soon, I think that's a big wrong on their end. There is sort of a new expectation that Rogers needs to meet to compete with the others like Cogeco and that Aurora cable without raising the price. Most of us have been patiently waiting for extreme speeds to go up at least a few megs, and this had better happen soon. |
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Manesh
join:2005-07-29
1 edit | reply to rossco2006
Re: [Extreme] Hot off the wire: Rogers annouces 18Meg service
said by rossco2006 :
»»https://www.bethere.co.uk/
24mmbps/1.3mbps/no cap
In europe there are lots of ISPs over 20mbps with NO cap.
As per their TOS...not exactly unlimited...
If it's felt that any Be unlimited or office member's Internet activities are so excessive that other members are detrimentally affected, Be may give the member generating the excessive web traffic a written warning (by email or otherwise). In extreme circumstances, should the levels of activity not immediately decrease after the warning, Be may terminate that member's services. [ |
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mordin
42 inches of 1080p
Premium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB
| reply to thenay
said by thenay  :I'm sure Extreme will be upgraded to 9mbps or sumthin, which is good enough for me. Look at Bell Optimax, it makes more sense and i'm sure Rogers will do sumthin similar. Why upgrade Extreme? With the new price increase the gave the customers the option of downgrading to Reg High Speed to save money. What if, once the dust settles and the 'new' service is rolled out Rogers stops taking new customer orders for 'Extreme'. Then leave anyone still on 'Extreme' at 6/800 with a 100 GB cap, throttle the hell out of the service and drop their speeds once they are over to try and force them to cancel. Don't forget...Rogers doesn't want 'power' users!
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Rogers1
join:2004-10-14
Canada | sorry it begs the question why offer 18 megs. |
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mordin
42 inches of 1080p
Premium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB | So they can fleece suckers that sign up for it.  |
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sdffsdfsdfsdf
@shawcable.net | reply to hopetindall
"sorry it begs the question why offer 18 megs."
Why the hell not?! Just because you or other people do not need this there are other people who do. For example a family that has more then 1 user/computer. |
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Hyper6
join:2006-01-03
Hamilton, ON
| reply to hopetindall
I just like to show how bad we are getting ripped off. I was just in the US for 1.5 weeks. same landscape as here. IN baltimore they had FiOS, toronto is a much bigger city probally would make more sense. the only reason they have a cap is because they can get away with it.
Bell still hasnt announced optimax pricing and cap info for ontario though. Weird anyone who wants 18mbs isn't the kind of user who is going to welcome a cap. GB's dont cost that much to an isp. You would think someone would offer a similar priced service with no cap. I hope 3 web resell's this. They cut costs on everything else besides your internet i am sure the will resell it with no caps. Besides 3web customers are getting switched back to there 3web servers so no more we get same caps as rogers. |
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x0marx
join:2006-04-15
Guelph, ON
| reply to hopetindall
Well, I think that's the reason why they are increasing their price for the Extreme service... so that the heavy users downgrade to Express or upgrade to Elite, either way, a win-win situation.
And by the way, any idea when they will upgrade their network to DOCSIS 2.0? |
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ted rogers
@rogers.com | reply to hopetindall
I think it's a typo, they forgot a zero:
The service will have a monthly fee of $99.95 and will include an industry leading 1000 GB of usage.
Keep your 18meg service, I want my 1000 GB per month now! |
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Sunfox
join:2003-12-14
Markham, ON
1 edit | reply to x0marx
Hmm, so let's see here... if you were to use your 18mbit connection at maximum rated speeds, it would take roughly 12.9 hours to use up your entire 100gb quota.
Spread over a 31 day month, that means you can use your new $100 connection for all of 25 minutes every day! 
Here's another thought. Do you REALLY think that they aren't going to impose the exact same restrictions/overage fees on the current Extreme tier? But probably at an 80gb or 60gb level? |
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Hyper6
join:2006-01-03
Hamilton, ON
| reply to hopetindall
It is to expensive they cant justify paying double what we pay know for a few more mbs.
What ever happened to the isp's customers paying there monthly fee and that money was supposed to be used to upgrade the network (improve speed over time). Why everytime they upgrade speed they charge way more. We pay or fees to them and the customer is expectingover time that they are going to upgrade the service over time. Why would they even say a 1000 GB cap? if that was true they wouldnt even bother to mention a cap. |
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Arthur Winslow
@rogers.com | reply to hopetindall
x0marx, Docsis 2.0 has been in testing for the last 6 months. The system will not be 2.0 for a long time to come. Alot of subscriber hardware must be replaced in order to accomodate this. |
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x0marx
join:2006-04-15
Guelph, ON | I see, thanks for the reply. |
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koolin
join:2005-12-20
Toronto, ON | reply to Arthur Winslow
Any hints on whats going to happen to extreme Arthur? |
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rossco2006
join:2006-07-30
Keswick, ON
| reply to Manesh
said by Manesh :said by rossco2006 : »»https://www.bethere.co.uk/
24mmbps/1.3mbps/no cap
In europe there are lots of ISPs over 20mbps with NO cap.
As per their TOS...not exactly unlimited... If it's felt that any Be unlimited or office member's Internet activities are so excessive that other members are detrimentally affected, Be may give the member generating the excessive web traffic a written warning (by email or otherwise). In extreme circumstances, should the levels of activity not immediately decrease after the warning, Be may terminate that member's services. [ That was just an example.
I'm sure there are many more in other parts of europe, but I only know names of ISPs in england so that was first to come to mind. 
Anyway I doubt they would complain about 100gb of usage they woudld allow way more than that! |
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