this for sure will increase the amount of competition in high speed internet suppliers...it also should hopefully increase the amount of alternatives out there...apparently Nortel is working on internet through the electrical outlet...thats going to be nuts..

Your bitching will get you no where, you only have 1 choice in cable, and in the DSL side, I can almost guarantee whatever Sympatico does, the others who buy it off Sympatico will follow suit. So you're S.O.L. if you don't want to pay for more. We had it cheap for a long time, the states on average is $49.95/month and has been for some time, the UK doesn't even have high speed (on average) over 500kbps, that too is more money than ours. It sucks yes, can you do anything about it? Absolutely not (if you can accept dial-up, then so be it. I could never go back, I'm a broadband snob!)

Not only Rogers Tech service is shity-- which ticked me off a few times, but still sane..

Raised my monthly plan by 10bux.. that really ticked me off, but Im still sane..


NOW, WITH ALL THAT SAID AND DONE... THEY TURN AROUND AND FUCK ME IN THE ASS WITH LIMITING THE Tx/Rx DATASTREAM!!!

FUCK THAT!!!

THATS IT!! IM FUCKING GOING DOWNTOWN TO ROGERS HQ AND BURN THE FUCKING BUILDING DOWN!!!

Would you think, with all these ppl they get to subscribe-they would ATLEAST start upgrading there systems/servers/nodes/shubs... whatever to compensate for this... NOOoo!!!

DAMN IT!! THERE SHOULD BE A PROTECTION PLAN FOR US.. NO?!

ONE PISSED OFF MOFU,
ramie

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Originally posted by RuntimE THATS IT!! IM FUCKING GOING DOWNTOWN TO ROGERS HQ AND BURN THE FUCKING BUILDING DOWN!!!

Hey bro, drop me a line when you head down there, I'll bring the matches, so we can burn the mofos down!

yeah this is so retarded! when i'm living on res during school term, I have my downloading limit capped, and i'm always looking forward to when i get to go home and download like mad, and now this? i might as well just keep using my sadass university connection. they all do this, give you an awesome offer, then increase prices one at a time. its just like that long distance phone thing, it was too good to be true. $20 cap on unlimited ld. a few months later, they start charging you

I think I'm going to open a bandwidth cafe.

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It's greed damnit......at it's finest.......good pt.....we won't be able to contest it......that sucks.

I used to pay $0.50 per hour for dialup. The only reason I choose Rogers and then Sypatico was because it was highspeed. I felt that paying $45 a month was already quite expensive. Im not the type of internet user to just view websites, rather, I signed in for highspeed because they allowed me to view and download media content. Now im being charged more to do the one thing I signed up to do. I can understand a modest price increase, like 5% annually because of increasing costs, but to all of a sudden increase to $70 is outrageous. My only hope is that a cheap, unlimited alternative comes around (freenet cable would be awesome,... but im only dreaming)

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I just talked to my friend who works as tech support for sympatico here in Montreal and this thing with limits is real and coming very soon

this is more than outrageous, its outright theft. I have High speed Sympatico for 3 years now. When I got the service, they told me that I have to rent the damn modem cause they would change it very soon and it would be a waste to buy it. Now 360$ later I'm still stuck with the same modem and these bastards don't let me buy the damn thing! And now they want to limit my surfing pleasure! I mean come on, god damn it, what the hell is the purpose of rich media content if it has poor bandwidth! Its like having a Porshe with 5 litres of gaz!!

I found another ISP http://www.istop.com who has a decent limit and good prices if you buy the modem... anyone knows about it??

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everyone should really check out the RBUA website. It's the association of Broadband Users .. so basically that means everyone using Rogers OR Sympatico. If there's gonna be a battle between us all and Rogers + Bell.. the RBUA would be the last line of defense.

www.RBUA.org

(mixes molotov cocktails)

and for more info on the legal fight against this.. check out this thread:

http://www.rbua.org/board/viewthread.php?TID=2303&FID=1

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ohz and here's some GOOD stuff about the whole Sprint Highspeed Internet:
(kinda old but nonetheless useful)

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1016838112555

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Last edited by dEsidEL on May-11-2002 at 09:12

Well right now the speeds for cable are pretty good. Downstream 200kb/sec (1.5mbit) and upstream is about 45kb/sec. How come they cap the upstream so much?