sheepishSCOT
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join:2002-11-01
Mississauga, ON
| Official Speed Increase
Cogeco Cable hits 5 Mbps mark
1/27/2004
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Cogeco Cable Inc. (Head Office)
MONTREAL - Cogeco Cable Inc. made official today a significant speed increase for its high-speed Internet service, ranking Cogeco among the fastest Internet service providers in the world.
As previously reported by www.cablecastermagazine.com, Cogeco's download speed has been increased from 3 Mbps to up to 5 Mbps for its standard high speed Internet service and from 5 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps for its High Speed Pro service. Upload speed has also been significantly increased to 640 Kbps for the standard service and to 1 Mbps for the Pro service. "These new speeds redefine the industry benchmark and are well ahead of what DSL high-speed providers can deliver to their customers," says the company's press release
The speed increase is network-wide, meaning all Cogeco high speed Internet customers now experience what is one of the highest-speed downloads available in the country.
"The high speed Internet service we offer today to our customers enables them to experience truly high speed Internet. Cogeco high speed Internet customers now enjoy surfing the Internet at average speeds that are up to three times faster than the current average speeds of the leading DSL high speed internet provider" said Ron Perrotta, vice-president of marketing and sales at Cogeco Cable.
For several months now, Cogeco Cable has ranked among the fastest High Speed Internet service providers in North America and in the world according to Broadbandreports.com, an independent web site that tracks ISP speeds and customer satisfaction.
"This significant speed enhancement was completed without any changes to customer equipment or pricing, further highlighting the superiority of the cable platform for high speed Internet service," added Perrotta. "We have had an important speed advantage over DSL providers for years and now the gap is bigger than ever before." concluded Mr. Perrotta.
Cogeco is the fourth-largest cable company in Canada with about 830,000 basic cable customers in Ontario and Quebec. |
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nova220
join:2002-05-20
Dundas, ON | Got a link? =) or is that a printed article? |
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Gunn27
join:2003-05-13
Georgetown, ON | Here is the link:
»www.newswire.ca/en/releases/arch···544.html |
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CS_Buddy
Black Mage
Premium
join:2002-01-03
Canada
clubs:
|  reply to sheepishSCOT
HERE is the link to the article.
Congratulations Cogeco! I've always been a fan of the Cogeco network- you all do such a great job of providing us with such a fantastic service! This is another great jump in service quality for us lucky Canadian broadband users.
*looks at his piddly 2Mbps/256Kbps Hamilton Mountain Cable connection and looks longingly to his St. Catharines Cogeco cable* ... I want to go home... |
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InFloW
join:2002-08-10
Fergus, ON |  Improve Fergus network then increase speeds. Right now in Fergus we don't even get 3mbit half the time. |
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ancodia6
join:2002-10-21
St Catharines, ON | yeah, same here in St. Catharines. |
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Kenny Rogers
I Have A Huge E-Penis
Premium
join:2002-04-23
Kingston, ON | reply to sheepishSCOT
j00 guys + gals rox0rz my box0rz |
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PegLeg
Premium
join:2002-06-27
@ Sea
| I like BBR's frontpage comment -
'Not to be outdone by fellow Canadian cable provider Rogers and their recently added 5mbps tier, Cogeco today officially announced they'd be making 5mbps their standard downstream speed.' - »Canadian Speed |
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techie
Premium
join:2003-06-18
Canada
clubs:
 ·Cogeco Cable
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| said by PegLeg  :
I like BBR's frontpage comment -
'Not to be outdone by fellow Canadian cable provider Rogers and their recently added 5mbps tier, Cogeco today officially announced they'd be making 5mbps their standard downstream speed.' - »Canadian Speed
Outdone by ROGERS? LMAO. |
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Brades
Brades
Premium
join:2002-11-08
Kingston, ON | reply to sheepishSCOT
when will this go into effect? |
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hotseat
join:2003-08-10
Kingston, ON | reply to sheepishSCOT
Did the speed increase include biz editions as well, and what are they at now?
btw when is the info page for cogeco going top be updated? |
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soulfly3
join:2004-01-23
Canada | hmmm... my speed test speed are a bit higher than usual, but have the upgrades even taken place yet? i used to average 34-3700kb/sec now im getting mid 4k.... so who knows, its great anyways! but has it even happened yet!? |
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soulfly3
join:2004-01-23
Canada
2 edits | 2004-01-27 17:52:16 EST: 4575 / 413
Your download speed : 4575753 bps, or 4575 kbps.
A 558.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 413009 bps, or 413 kbps.
faster than im used to! but im still not convinced they did the upgrade yet!
noot bad speed for residential, and in st catharines |
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ancodia6
join:2002-10-21
St Catharines, ON | reply to soulfly3
I'd rather them put the effort into fixing the #%&*ing news server. |
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Snickerdo
Premium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
| reply to sheepishSCOT
The fact that there is any corporation, let alone a cable company, that truly values its customers the way Cogeco does is astonishing. I love Cogeco so much that I'd love to buy some shares, just so I can say that I own a part of an awesome company. 
Way to go guys. My American friends now drool over my Canadian-style connection 
--
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." - Albert Einstein
Yes, I CanChat. Can You? |
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Methos
Premium
join:2002-03-18
Kingston, ON
| reply to sheepishSCOT
Hi, I have a question about the upgrade.
My download speeds are around 4700 - 4800 kbps and have been pretty constant since early this month, but my upload speeds have dropped to 200 - 300 kbps.
Yesterday it was the highest it's been all month, it went up to about 450 according to various speed tests. My upload speed has been constantly dropping down into the mid 300's and 200's all this month.
My question is, have the upgrades been done? Should I be getting uploads up in the 600's today? |
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sheepishSCOT
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-01
Mississauga, ON | reply to hotseat
biz increase is a part of it too... we have agreed on the new speeds but implementation later this week. |
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bstephens
join:2002-10-09
Belleville, ON
| Haven't seen any Speed increase here in Belleville.
Infact it's gotten worse since around second week in Jan.
Pro Package which I'm on sounds impressive when Cogeco say's "up to 10Mbps", but how many people are actually even getting 6Mbps, or 5Mbps. For the speed I'm getting now I might as well save a few bucks and switch to the standard package. Thinking about doing that unless things pickup here somewhat.
»/speedtests/27···75247120 |
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soulfly3
join:2004-01-23
Canada | reply to sheepishSCOT
wow so my speeds have increased today, and the upgrade isnt even implemented til next week! damn, im gonna be hitting like..... 7000kb a second then! hot doggity boo ya! |
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joeblow3
join:2000-12-27
London, ON
| I am on tier 1 soho and am getting 9000kbps down but the up is sill not 1meg but it will some time. My SOHO has been 10,000 since Christmas when I switch my router to one with a 100meg WAN port. If you are on Pro or the SOHOs and using a router, your router must have a 100meg WAN port in order to see the 10 meg download speed. 10 meg WAN port on a router has overhead of upto 30-40%. I did testing on my two router and sure enough I get 10meg down with mt D-link 614+ but not my Nexland Pro400.
And way to "lead" the way Cogeco. You don't follow, you lead. Beat that Rogers and Sympatico !
Good Luck
Bill |
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