Arcn3ss
Fri, 02-25-2005, 01:03 PM
Now, you guys who are canadian and are using Rogers.ca as an ISP may need to take notice with this tid bit of news.
After a detailed search on google, i found out that on feb 15th Rogers created a bandwidth limitation. This means that you cannot upload/download passed 60gbs. Doesnt matter if you are transfering something to another computer via MSN, downloading off mirc or bt or anything else, it will count towards your limit. As some of you may remember, Bell pulled a stunt like this before, which prompted many users to switch ISPs to Rogers in the first place.
Basicly the meaning behind this isnt to stop illegal downloading, its just to make sure rogers gets more money. Rogers doesnt care if you are downloading off a p2p, since its just looking at the AMOUNT your downloading/uploading. It doesnt matter if you paid for a online game, or anything else in the legal realm. The more bandwidth you use the more they are not getting a profit, so you see why they did this.
What annoys me more then the bandwidth limit is that you arent even told they did this. No one calls you, nor sends you an email, nor does it even appear on your bill.( and you have to go searching on their site pretty well to find this) Its very underhanded that they do this, because they fear ppl will jump ship and go to bell or some other ISP. Although when the next bill comes along, ppl will know.
Iam not a big fan of bell dsl, but at least they let you pay for the gbs you went over. Rogers gives you 3 chances, and by the third they are cutting you off from the internet service for a year. I wonder is how university students who have alot of roommates with computers, wanting to download or do something online are going to deal with this. Say if everyone downloads/uploads 10 gbs worth and there is 7 of you. Thats 10 gbs more then you are allowed. 60gb isnt alot at all, especially went divided by 6 or 7 in a span of a month.
http://shoprogersfaq.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/shoprogersfaq.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=b_uCB-yh&p_lva=3780&p_li=&p_page=1&p_prod_lvl1=34&p_prod _lvl2=68&p_search_text=&p_new_search=1&p_search_ty pe=6&p_sort_by=dflt
As for me, I am still not sure what Iam going to do. I may just limit my downloading, or move to a new ISP. I have the most expenive package from rogers (home versions) so i would want an unlimited download from the amount that we pay. Since, they are going down the limit route i may change my package to a lower one, since its not gonna be worth paying that much.
For those who didnt know about this.....
Surprise!...
After a detailed search on google, i found out that on feb 15th Rogers created a bandwidth limitation. This means that you cannot upload/download passed 60gbs. Doesnt matter if you are transfering something to another computer via MSN, downloading off mirc or bt or anything else, it will count towards your limit. As some of you may remember, Bell pulled a stunt like this before, which prompted many users to switch ISPs to Rogers in the first place.
Basicly the meaning behind this isnt to stop illegal downloading, its just to make sure rogers gets more money. Rogers doesnt care if you are downloading off a p2p, since its just looking at the AMOUNT your downloading/uploading. It doesnt matter if you paid for a online game, or anything else in the legal realm. The more bandwidth you use the more they are not getting a profit, so you see why they did this.
What annoys me more then the bandwidth limit is that you arent even told they did this. No one calls you, nor sends you an email, nor does it even appear on your bill.( and you have to go searching on their site pretty well to find this) Its very underhanded that they do this, because they fear ppl will jump ship and go to bell or some other ISP. Although when the next bill comes along, ppl will know.
Iam not a big fan of bell dsl, but at least they let you pay for the gbs you went over. Rogers gives you 3 chances, and by the third they are cutting you off from the internet service for a year. I wonder is how university students who have alot of roommates with computers, wanting to download or do something online are going to deal with this. Say if everyone downloads/uploads 10 gbs worth and there is 7 of you. Thats 10 gbs more then you are allowed. 60gb isnt alot at all, especially went divided by 6 or 7 in a span of a month.
http://shoprogersfaq.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/shoprogersfaq.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=b_uCB-yh&p_lva=3780&p_li=&p_page=1&p_prod_lvl1=34&p_prod _lvl2=68&p_search_text=&p_new_search=1&p_search_ty pe=6&p_sort_by=dflt
As for me, I am still not sure what Iam going to do. I may just limit my downloading, or move to a new ISP. I have the most expenive package from rogers (home versions) so i would want an unlimited download from the amount that we pay. Since, they are going down the limit route i may change my package to a lower one, since its not gonna be worth paying that much.
For those who didnt know about this.....
Surprise!...