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Rogers Internet Service to Start Charging Customers for Excessive Bandwidth Use (pg. 2)
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| patpicos |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
so much for "unlimited"! |
that was a scam to get pple in the door and em in the behind once they go over their not so unlimited rates |
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| kotsy |
| Will they even offer an unlimited bandwidth account above extreme or no? |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
Will they even offer an unlimited bandwidth account above extreme or no? |
Doubt it.   |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
got it in the mail a few weeks ago...share the net with 3 other roomies... only 1 month in 4 accounted in their report did we exceed so who knows...
might have to switch to acanac |
Don't bother, Bell owns those lines and they can all over them too, even metering |
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| El K Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Don't bother, Bell owns those lines and they can all over them too, even metering |
really now....dammit...so is there ANY ISP that will provide Internet without a bandwidth cap? |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
really now....dammit...so is there ANY ISP that will provide Internet without a bandwidth cap? |
Nope, not anymore. |
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| Dj Gracjan |
| quote: | Originally posted by hazelnut
bahh i got a warning for going over the limit... |
i got one of those not too long ago either. oh well |
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| DigiNut |
I don't remember what it is, but in the update they sent me it appears that there's actually a cap to the cap. That is, they'll charge you for excessive bandwidth, but up to a maximum of $30 or $50 or something.
Doesn't say what they do afterwards. I assume they just let it slide but maybe they disconnect you if you go higher. :p |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
I don't remember what it is, but in the update they sent me it appears that there's actually a cap to the cap. That is, they'll charge you for excessive bandwidth, but up to a maximum of $30 or $50 or something.
Doesn't say what they do afterwards. I assume they just let it slide but maybe they disconnect you if you go higher. :p |
It's up to $25 extra.
So if you're fine with a $75 internet bill for pretty much unlimited, then likely being totally cut off after 2 months for "excessive usage," go nuts! |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by urban_legend
My questions unless your illegally downloading TV shows or movies how are people going over this?
They say that 10 percent of users use 90 percent of the bandwidth.
I am ok with them doing this. |
New web pages use a lot of bandwidth. Youtube, flikr, facebook. The new internet is not text, it is media, legal and illegal.
I can do at least 100gigs/month on live sets alone. Add to that all the research, youtube, and pics I download, its easy to go over those limits.
Files are only getting bigger and our internet plans are only getting more restrictive.
The real motivation behind the excessive charges is not for bandwidth, but for you to buy more media products from media companies. Rogers and Bell fully realise that the internet is the best content delivery system ever invented, but they want you to buy their set top boxes instead. If excessive usage was the real issue, this policy would have been put in place more than five years go.
Excessive downloads have always been there and will always be there. They are not the reason the internet is 'clogged'. Usenet, FTP, IRC...these are technologies have been around a long time, and continue to be used a lot. The same people using torrents today are the same ones that used the older technologies years ago.
The funnies thing is that statistic of 10% of users using 90% of the bandwidth. I've seen studies that say as many as 80% of 'young' people use torrents and p2p. The term young is really anybody under 40. Thats a huge percentage of the population, and there for it cannot be only 10% of people using all that bandwidth. If that much of your customer base is actually using torrents and p2p, maybe that is what they should be allowed to do? The market is supposed to dictate what services are offered and for what prices, but this is a case of the big guy saying NO. Buy our products in this nice neat little package, because we did not think of using the internet first. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Don't bother, Bell owns those lines and they can all over them too, even metering |
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
really now....dammit...so is there ANY ISP that will provide Internet without a bandwidth cap? |
Not true, as I am with Acanac. Yes, my torrents are throttled during the day, but Acanac will not charge me, it is unlimited.
I just did 250GB (combined) last month, and am on route doing something similar this month. I have even spoken to the Acanac admins, and they are just fine with the amount of data their users go through. Funny thing is that they checked their usage, and since Bell started throttling their customers, they have not seen a noticeable drop in bandwidth usage. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Not true, as I am with Acanac. Yes, my torrents are throttled during the day, but Acanac will not charge me, it is unlimited.
I just did 250GB (combined) last month, and am on route doing something similar this month. I have even spoken to the Acanac admins, and they are just fine with the amount of data their users go through. Funny thing is that they checked their usage, and since Bell started throttling their customers, they have not seen a noticeable drop in bandwidth usage. |
Ah, I read on DSL Reports that some guy was bitching about his stuff being metered on Acanac now as well because of Bell's new policies. |
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