 mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | reply to cfser
Re: Optimax Internet service now available in Toronto! The caps are just bs. I'd rather have 5 mbps unlimited HSE then Optimax 16 mbps and 75 GB cap. Only the suckers are going to pay $100/month |
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| i ll keep my 5 meg connection unlimited and leave things at that thank you very much. |
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 HiVoltI Piss on BellPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:10
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i ll keep my 5 meg connection unlimited and leave things at that thank you very much.
Who knows how long that will remain unlimited...
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 byloPremium
join:2004-05-04
Waterloo, ON | said by HiVolt:Who knows how long that will remain unlimited... Well the contract I'm on specifies unlimited bandwidth, but of course, they can always change terms and conditions at moment's notice  |
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bohn
join:2006-05-30
Scarborough, ON | reply to HiVolt
I told everybody a long time ago the day sympatico tried to con everyone into signing up with newshosting for their unlimited account. Repeating what i said back then newshosting saves a fortune because sympatico suckers can only do 60 gigs a month while the rest of the world does closer to a terabyte per month. Sympatico makes a fortune because anyone with unlimited would blow that 60 gig cap in the first week of the month on the newsgroups. At $1.25 a gigabyte sympatico can rob the public of more millions. |
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With all higher new service, Sympatico Optimax 10 (50 CAP) or 16 (75 CAP) or Rogers Elite 18/1 (100 CAP), we knew the days of "Unlimited" Usage is comming to an end and the future of over-usage billing begins ..
Especially when an earlier article, posted in the forum with Kevin Crull, President of Residential Services for Bell Canada saying, "It used to be that the real heavy users were 2 percent of our subscriber base, but now we would consider heavy users to be 30-35 percent of our subscriber base."
»www.telecommagazine.com/newsglob···=AR_2294 |
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Hyper6
join:2006-01-03
Hamilton, ON | reply to cfser
Actaully travisc funny eh, i dont care anymore.
I couldnt be happier. I am not coming to this forum any more until rogers starts traffic shaping again.
Bye. |
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 LiQuiDBSD geekPremium
join:2002-08-08
Anjou, QC
1 edit | said by Hyper6:Actaully travisc funny eh, i dont care anymore. I couldnt be happier. I am not coming to this forum any more until rogers starts traffic shaping again. Bye. For real? Promise? 
On topic now... anyone here on Optimax yet? I'd like to know whether or not they'll keep trying to push that pppoe stuff on us for this service.
Thx |
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 TLS2000Crazy CanuckPremium
join:2004-02-24
Mississauga, ON | I hate this. They're charging us $20/mo more for Optimax 16 in Ontario, and we get no additional benefits from it.
In fact, with the cap where it is, it's better to go with Rogers 18MB service for the price. Nice move Bell.
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mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 Reviews:
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| said by TLS2000:In fact, with the cap where it is, it's better to go with Rogers 18MB service for the price. Nice move Bell. Plus the Rogers 18 MB service will be available in every Rogers Hi-Speed serviced area when it's launched, not one small area in the GTA. |
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TLS2000Crazy CanuckPremium
join:2004-02-24
Mississauga, ON | said by mlerner:said by TLS2000:In fact, with the cap where it is, it's better to go with Rogers 18MB service for the price. Nice move Bell. Plus the Rogers 18 MB service will be available in every Rogers Hi-Speed serviced area when it's launched, not one small area in the GTA. I miss the days when these two companies actually tried competing against one another. The only reason that Rogers hasn't set us up with higher speeds is because Bell hasn't been able to. Now that Bell can, Rogers will as well, only not in a competitive way.
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 SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | reply to cfser
I pay $46/month for 10Mbit/s service, and 16Mbit/s service here is $70/month. I can't see Bell offering Optimax in Cogeco territory any time soon. |
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said by LiQuiD:said by Hyper6:Actaully travisc funny eh, i dont care anymore. I couldnt be happier. I am not coming to this forum any more until rogers starts traffic shaping again. Bye. For real? Promise? On topic now... anyone here on Optimax yet? I'd like to know whether or not they'll keep trying to push that pppoe stuff on us for this service. Thx yes, its PPPOE, i called the number and asked |
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mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 Reviews:
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| said by frank2029:said by LiQuiD:said by Hyper6:Actaully travisc funny eh, i dont care anymore. I couldnt be happier. I am not coming to this forum any more until rogers starts traffic shaping again. Bye. For real? Promise? On topic now... anyone here on Optimax yet? I'd like to know whether or not they'll keep trying to push that pppoe stuff on us for this service. Thx yes, its PPPOE, i called the number and asked Can anyone say unlimited login for $10/month fron unnamed 3rd party provider?  |
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SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | said by mlerner:Can anyone say unlimited login for $10/month fron unnamed 3rd party provider? Will their network actually be able to handle the throughput of a 16Mbit/s connection, though? Most networks are designed for a specific load. If you suddenly get a bunch of users who are exceeding what the network was designed for, it can fall flat on its ass.
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Mont
join:2006-05-02
Saint-Leonard, QC | reply to cfser
Can someone comfirm that almost all of the montreal island is optimax ready like frank 2029 got told. |
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mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 Reviews:
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said by Snickerdo:said by mlerner:Can anyone say unlimited login for $10/month fron unnamed 3rd party provider? Will their network actually be able to handle the throughput of a 16Mbit/s connection, though? Most networks are designed for a specific load. If you suddenly get a bunch of users who are exceeding what the network was designed for, it can fall flat on its ass. True, though unless I don't know something they do, they can't avoid an overload like that since the connection speed is limited by the line card not the PPPoE login. |
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SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | said by mlerner:True, though unless I don't know something they do, they can't avoid an overload like that since the connection speed is limited by the line card not the PPPoE login. Well, there's two things here...
1) The ISP may not actually limit at the switch level, which means you'll get your full 16Mbit/s - until everyone and their brother decides to buy a $10 unlimited login, and everyone is downloading at full speed 24/7. That ISP now has all their tier one bandwidth eaten up, and your unlimited 16Mbit/s connection is now a high-latency connection that barely struggles to get a few Mbit/s due to overloading.
2) The ISP may take the additional step of limiting at the switch level, at which point that unlimited login is useless to begin with.
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man that cap is stupid. i'd get it if the cap was more reasonable.. all that speed and only a 50gb or 75gb cap. it's absurd. |
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i just cant understand why nobody is complaining about rgoers- throttling.
1000000mbit, but throttled. *uck it. i perefer 1 , unlimited. |
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