Rogers → Re: Here Is Link To Cap Announcement

I think it will depend on how diabolical Ted becomes in banning over 60 Gig people. I'm *suspecting* he will do this like he did with the soft caps. ONLY GO AFTER THE BADLY CONGESTED AREAS.

Pulp, I suspect that'll be wishful thinking. This was Ted's answer to "You gotta tell us what the cap is". Since they aren't going to tell people that there are overload issues on a node, this is the answer - treat everyone the same.

Hmmmm... I bet Ted goes after the historically bad areas (Toronto,Waterloo parts etc...) first. Sure, he will get others to make it *appear* fair, but I'd like to make a friendly wager he doesn't go after a "BW hog" in Carp that has only a half dozen people on Rogers.

Hmmmm... I bet Ted goes after the historically bad areas (Toronto,Waterloo parts etc...) first. Sure, he will get others to make it *appear* fair, but I'd like to make a friendly wager he doesn't go after a "BW hog" in Carp that has only a half dozen people on Rogers.

I really think he's gonna go for the congested areas which are HIS fault for oversubscribing and/or not fixing the problem.

If this was actually the case (I doubt it), then I would have very little to worry about. My condo is full of retirees on highspeed that rarely use it. And all the surrounding apartments had a dispute with Rogers many years ago and do not use them for any services, therefore I'm in a great area for bandwidth.

And I really doubt Extreme users are on Extreme just to surf and check email faster. Hell, not one single person I know that is on Extreme is just a web surfer, like me they are 'heavy' downloaders. Mind you, I HATE BT, and rarely ever use it... in general I don't use p2p programs, slow and unreliable.

If you were downloading using extreme 24/7 for a month at maximum speed, my simple calculation (don't know if the decimal is in the right place) shows that you would transfer 2.7 TeraBytes. You can see even the "heavy" users come to only a small fraction of that, and it doesn't affect the network like they want you to beleive. It's not possible, they are reserving their OWN bandwidth for upcoming services while you pay for it, and that's all.

To cap the extreme service the same as for basic/lite is a slap in the face, and makes no sence.
Essentially, at $45/month (I had extreme since day 1), I would be paying $.75 per Gig transferred regardless of whether I used that much or not. How much do you think Rogers pays for that same Gig transferred to their backbone provider? Greedy is fkin right.

Greedy is fkin right.

Greedy is the right word. So why 60GB instead of 100GB a month. With a 100GB a month, there will be less complain and alot more people will be jsut happy with it. ROgers know they can make alot more money from people since many people will be boarderline 60GB a month.

Don't these people knows that with such speed we are getting, it's very easy to eat up your bandwidth since we are so use to jumping from sites to sites and many sites nowaday aren't freaking 400k as Rogers claim. Are they still thinking we are still in the mid 90s?

If they want to make majority of people happy, cap it at 100GB a month or else lower our prices for the Extreme for 60GB a month for fck shake. Why should we let them control us since we are their customers and they make money off of us?

Why is 100GB a lot better than 60GB? Why not 120GB? or 150GB?

All these numbers are relative and somebody will always want it higher. It's a helluva lot better than the 5GB+5GB Bell was originally planning.

-Darryl

Not to mention the 5 total that Rogers was originally planning before Bell noosed their own necks!

For a lot of people caps of any kind are unacceptable.

"For a lot of people caps of any kind are unacceptable."

Yeah the NHLPA was saying something like that as well but even they caved in.



Some people will leave. More people will sign up the next day.

-Darryl

Why is 100GB a lot better than 60GB? Why not 120GB? or 150GB?

All these numbers are relative and somebody will always want it higher. It's a helluva lot better than the 5GB+5GB Bell was originally planning.

-Darryl

Well for me 60GB will be mainly for surfing, streaming, and other necessary stuff that people usually do on the internet. Another 40 will be downnloading and uploading to your heart desire. I mean people dont really need to cramp 200G a month since they can add another 100 GB the next month. I see alot of careless uploading is the reason why and alot of people doesn't know how to control it.

60GB is boarderline for me and alot of people and another 40 should be a bonus.