Apr 19th, 2007, 11:57 AM
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"Rogers Advisory Panel" survey on bandwidth throttling
Anyone else get this survey invitation from Rogers? A whole bunch of questions about internet usage and questions about what you think about bandwidth caps, etc.
The survey claims the average internet user is at 5GB/month.
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Apr 19th, 2007, 12:06 PM
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After moving out to Vancouver this year..I must say..SHAW has been better in terms of pricing. Service is about the same..up and down..no throttling...least not to me.
I was just looking at the prices last night. Rogers Extreme 6.0 Mbps download 800 Kbps upload 9 email addresses $52.95 Monthly Service Fee (plus $3.00/mth modem rental or $99.95 modem purchase plus taxes). Shaw High-Speed Internet 5.0 Mbps download 512 Kbps upload 100 mb email space 10 email addresses 2 IP's $38.95/month without modem rental $43.95/month with modem rental Shaw High-Speed Xtreme-I 10.0 Mbps download 1 Mbps upload 100 mb email space 10 email addresses 2 IP's $48.95/month without modem rental $53.95/month with modem rental Now for the good stuff: Shaw High-Speed Nitro 25.0 Mbps download 1 Mbps upload 100 mb email space 10 email addresses 2 IP's $99.95/month without modem rental $104.95/month with modem rental 5gb would sounds about right. It's something like 10% of the users use 80% of the bandwith. Something like that. |
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Apr 19th, 2007, 12:15 PM
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ha ha ha - 5 gb / month? - maybe amongst the granny crowd
If that is the case why do we need 6 mbps at $55 per month? Multimedia is the new big thing on the Internet. We need less throttling. Rogers is full of BS |
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Apr 19th, 2007, 12:15 PM
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What a bunch of BS... they are bunch of crooks and they know it. This survey is only an attempt to justify their throttling policy.
They will skew the result of this survey no matter how unpopular their new policy is. And they will present it to CRTC if they are any investigation on their shady practices.
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Apr 19th, 2007, 12:17 PM
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one of the questions...
The average Internet bandwidth usage of a typical customer in a month is 5 Gigabytes. If Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet implemented an Internet bandwidth limit of 5 Gigabytes per month, aimed at limiting excessive use of the Rogers Internet network, what is your overall reaction to this potential initiative from Rogers?
I told them I am opposed. I use 80-100 G a month, I am willing to pay but don't like being throttled or limited because I am a heavy user. I like how the questions are skewed "did you know a small number of users reduce the speed for everyone" type of questions just leads everyone to say "oh my". That's BS. My use at 2 am. isn't affecting anyone's access. |
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Apr 19th, 2007, 12:29 PM
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Yeah... In case I didn't make it clear, my answers indicated a severe displeasure at any sort of bandwidth throttling.
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Apr 19th, 2007, 02:13 PM
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Apr 19th, 2007, 02:23 PM
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im in toronto...but i don't think i've ever gone above 20...that already seems a lot for me...but a lot of you guys here complain that the 60 isn't enough, what are you guys doing that much bandwidth?
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Apr 19th, 2007, 02:32 PM
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5GB of bandwidth?
Correct me if my math is wrong, but maxing out your downstream connection results in less than 2 hours of usage each month before you hit the limit.
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Apr 19th, 2007, 02:40 PM
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I do 350gb + per month.
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Apr 19th, 2007, 02:51 PM
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Obviously you are not average users.
The average user to them surfs the web for a few hours a day. Does not download anything more than a few mp3s and so forth. Rogers is trying to stop users from downloading huge files. (ie. illegal movies/software) Ideally they want us all to be 5gb users and charge the heavy users who slow down the network downloading crap. 5gb is alot just to surf websites, emailing and a few mp3s.
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Apr 19th, 2007, 03:23 PM
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