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I dont think so.
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join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON | hmm They definately do offer unlimited bw. I do several hundred gb per month on average and haven't gotten anything.
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MikeG
Premium
join:2004-10-02
Hamilton, ON
 ·Mountain Cable
| Well.. I do agree with the speed issue, but Mountain's only competition is Bell. Thats not really an excuse, but Mountain is much much smaller than Bell, and Cogeco. Source Cable isn't much faster at 6mbps, and both Rogers and Bell have 5Mbps plans, so really, you were spoiled having Cogeco. Cogeco is like the Videotron of Ontario.
Rogers Express:
5.0 Mbps; upload speed 384 Kbps.
Bell HS & HS Ultra:
5 Mbps; upload speed upto 800 Kbps.
Source HS:
6 Mbps; upload speed 512 Kbps.
Once Bell's Optimax service is more available than the current downtime Toronto, everyone else will raise speeds to compete.
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krauserx15
join:2006-05-20
·Mountain Cable
1 edit | ... Indeed, Cogeco was great - passed the bandwidth limit every month by 100 GB and they didn't care.
Bell on the other hand, even when they had their unlimited package, they still called me every month making sure that "I" knew how much I was downloading. Their new service is pretty nice, but a 80 GB bandwidth cap... Yuck and $ every GB after that is a nice try but no thanks.
What I like about Mountain Cable is all my speed tests are very close to the 5 Mbits they advertise, which is nice but still... I'd like to see it 7 Mbits at least and 512 kbits up. | |
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mtncbl4
Premium
join:2002-03-11
Hamilton, ON
| RE: krauserx15 Hello Mr Krauser...
My name is Bruce Marshall and I am the Technical Director for Mountain Cablevision.
I would like to thank you for your open and direct review.
Please call me at 905.389.1393 and I will gladly discuss Mountain Cablevision's policies with you and listen to any feedback / comments you have regarding Mountain's services.
Thanks, looking forward to chatting with you.
Bruce M. | |
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MikeG
Premium
join:2004-10-02
Hamilton, ON
·Mountain Cable
| - I play UT2004 & Urban terror and have not experienced any problems such as yours (being booted out / high lat on server list).
I use the ingame browsers & sometimes Xfire.
In UT i use filters, so I usually only ping around 400-500 servers. With xfire its the full 1300+.
You've been on both Source and Cogeco? (so you've lived in Ham. before moving in for school?)
As for the pricing, I would call them to adjust your billing. If you really do have their phone & TV you should be able to get the discount off the inet. Its actually cheaper than Cogeco when you compare them.
MC: 44.95 + 15% Tax = 51.69 (no cbl)
Cogeco: 47.95 + 15% Tax = 55.14 (no cbl)
MC: 39.95 (w/ cbl)
Cogeco: 42.95 (w/ cbl)
Bruce offered to speak with you, maybe call him and see what can be done.
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 | krauserx15
join:2006-05-20
·Mountain Cable
1 edit | Re: - The filtering system works a little different on UT04 then it does on the Steam platform. Even though I set "filters" it still continues to ping every server it can, yes I'm on Mountain Cable and yes this is their fault. I have no issues on any other ISP, the only solution I found was to a) Get my friends to find a game for me without using the server list or b) Use nmap to limit the pings that can be sent out each second, a great solution but not worth the pain and annoyance.
I know he left his number but I'm already aware that the policies suck. Maybe I'll give him a call in the distant future.  | |
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON | Re: - No problems here with steam. Can join/ping any server and the server list without issue.
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join:2006-05-20 | Re: - As can I, it's only games that have huge ping requests such as Counter-Strike. | |
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON | i meant with CSS. | |
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@bell.ca | Re: - Dam that sucks 53$ a month for that speed... you can get the same on DSL for 29$ a month | |
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AJS
join:2005-11-13
Hamilton, ON
·Mountain Cable
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