Waves

200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

if this is what the future of the internet in america looks like im thinking of donning my official Protest Suit and hitting the streets. Thats just fucking fucked.

I easily go through 25gb every day or two.

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Snowmayne

I'm kind of dumb when it comes to this.. How do you add up how much you most likely use?

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Cerpin Taxt

I reached the limit weeks ago... let's see how this bill looks.

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Pharm Girl

^ we're hearing Quebec will get capped at 60GB's.....we're also hearing it's all to help cable companies

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Cerpin Taxt

I had a message from Rogers pop up on my browser telling me I'd reached the 25gb limit, and that every GB from now until the end of the billing period would be $4.

It's either continue with this level of service or 'upgrade'... bollocks.

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Waves

thats another part of it, for the average internet user its a nightmare to figure out how much your using. theres apps and stuff, that are fairly complicated:

bandwitdth usage app - Google Search

and some ISPs have a "gauge" of some kind on their website that you can check to see how much youve used.

But damn, i watch so much youtube and upload so much shit (even legally) that 25 GB is nothing. Especially in this new age of Highdef where a dvd can be 25 gigs +

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Waves

holy shit 4 dollars for 1 GB?

WTF???

watching a DVD on netflix for you would be like 20 bucks

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Cerpin Taxt

Yup, it's horseshit!

Rogers Hi-Speed Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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SageTree

I have a pretty basic package on Rogers and we have netflix.
We haven't went over our monthy package cap. (heh.... I said package cap...heh, heh....
I'll try to gather some billing intel to share.

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Waves

^how many movies do you guys watch on the average week?

il admit im a leisure junky so i watch a shit ton of streaming stuff like youtube/rapidshare as well as watching alot of TV on my laptop in bed. so i would really be fucked with this.

for casual internet users, though, even 25GB strikes me as a bit low. would not surprise me if at least half the consumers in canada go over that.

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SageTree

We do more shows mostly.... I'd say 30-60 mins 5/7 days. And I catch a documentary or two during the week which are usually 60-90 mins a piece.

Not sure who set up our account right now, that is, can't get on to the online bill

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José

the fuck? that's some bullshit right there. I'd be raging as hard as the egyptians.

Waves

30-60 minutes each day?

a 30 minute high def show is about half a gig. so that means if you did nothing on the internet except watch 30 minutes of TV online a day, you would be spending about 3Gigs a week to watch TV. 3x4 weeks = 12 GB or

HALF your 25 GB cap

only on shows. if you watch 60 minutes a day you have spent your entire bandwidth cap for that month on watching shows.

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SageTree

^basically what I was thinking Spanky....

Some kids are starvin'....

some kids are gettin' less internetz.....

I'm sure we'll make it.

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Waves

Bullshit corporate interests should be ignored because the children are starving in africa? That is dangerous logic that, if applied to other industries, could lead to serious economic failures.

Its not a big deal, until you need to do some e-mailing for work and you cant get online because you hit your cap

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SageTree

I couldn't say if we were HDing or not

The TV we watch are old Jeremy Brett "Sherlock Holmes" or Mystery Science Theater 3000 from the mid 90's....


The tech gods hadn't unleashed that Kraken yet....

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SageTree

Well.. I'm talking about the internet not other stuff or implications...

Do we know for a fact there isn't a provision made for businesses?

This also means that people will be using less power perhaps and who knows... speaking of speculative implications.... maybe fight obesity and dementia.... ??

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Puffman

the CRTC is easily the worst regulatory commission in the country. they completely ignore the interests of the public while getting on their knees for rogers and bell. they usually justify their stifling of open competition in the name of protecting canadian content and jobs, but they can't even open that can of bullshit on this one.

so why do they seem to only care about padding the profit margins of bell/rogers? i have no fucking clue. and i'd love for someone to give me a legitimate rationale, but i doubt i'll ever hear one.

Kompressor

The justification is that it seems Canadian ISPs cannot upgrade their networks fast enough with demand.

So instead of improving themselves, they're hobbling you.

Lol @ protecting canadian content by limiting canadian access to content.

Over here AT&T did that with their wireless networks, limiting to a 5 GB cap. They had people locked due to being the sole provider of the iphone. Now they're fucked since Verizon is getting it along with an unlimited data plan, and AT&T has been rated as the worst US network.

It's ok Canada, I can download your content for you and you can come over and watch it.

I'll be your digital diplomat.

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Waves

the problem is TOO MUCH demand?

damn, here in america we call that opportunity. call in some sub-contractors or some shit, canucks!

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