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Originally posted by spitty i just moved to Holland and this is what my ten euros a month gets me Fuck. they do it right here

The women, the parties, the internet, yup they do it right!

Here's a FibreStream speedtest from the basement telco room of one the buildings we service. Each user only gets max 20 Mbps download though, but it's unlimited..

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Originally posted by spitty i just moved to Holland and this is what my ten euros a month gets me Back home I think paid 70$ a month for rogers high speed and we were around 10 - 15. Also I don't have a downloading limit here, while back home its was 95gigs...with 3$ every gig after. Fuck. they do it right here

That's what countless reports on ISPs worldwide say. I just don't think the average Canadian realizes how much better other places have it as they don't get to see it firsthand. It's only going to get worse as Bell, Rogers, and all the other providers keep losing TV revenue and try to recoup the same amounts from internet service.

Hate to burst your bubble, friends.

Speedtest.net is inaccurate.

Rogers opens all their ports specifically for speedtest.net

So if you're on Teksavvy, Cogeco, Acanac (all rogers) you'll get highly inflated results.

Im with teksavvy, and im paying for the 15mb package, but ive speedtested as high as 35...which is full bs.

Use this:
LINKY LINK

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I should also add that having a package that delivers over 20 mb/s is pretty much moot, since the number of servers out there that allow individuals to download at a rate above 5mb/s are slim to none. The only time you'll ever see your bandwidth maxed out, is when you use these testing utilities.

Assuming you live in a house with 4-5 people, 20mb/s is plenty. Any slowness that you encounter is most likely a latency issue between channels, or some sort of conflict. Very rarely is a properly working line the bottleneck. Even if those 5 people are all downloading 10 movies at the same time its unlikely that they'll blow through the bandwidth.

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just switched to rogers extreme plus a few days ago...

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Originally posted by feelgood I should also add that having a package that delivers over 20 mb/s is pretty much moot, since the number of servers out there that allow individuals to download at a rate above 5mb/s are slim to none. The only time you'll ever see your bandwidth maxed out, is when you use these testing utilities. Assuming you live in a house with 4-5 people, 20mb/s is plenty. Any slowness that you encounter is most likely a latency issue between channels, or some sort of conflict. Very rarely is a properly working line the bottleneck. Even if those 5 people are all downloading 10 movies at the same time its unlikely that they'll blow through the bandwidth.

This is VERY True.

Re: Rogers opening ports for speedtests - NOT true. There's no different port for Speedtest.net. Speedtest.net runs through the same port as any other HTTP traffic (IE: almost all web traffic). It IS possible that they put in an exception for the Speedtest IP addresses... That would be sneaky... Wouldn't be the first

Anyone get LTE in Toronto yet? Would be interesting to see what speeds people are getting.