So Rogers has lost me as a customer...

[William Park]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:25:17PM -0500, Aaron Vegh wrote:
> Oddly, Rogers' business services are priced the same as their home
> service. This is their "Home Office" comparison chart:
> 
> http://www.shoprogers.com/business/businesssolutions/internetpackages_homeoffice.asp?shopperID=KVRNRRHF5CBJ9HV1VSRTUD46VQAE00T3
> 
> Can't find anything on metering or servers, naturally.
> 
> Interestingly, I just got off the phone with Rogers tonight. I was
> asking about how they meter Bittorrent, and was told two interesting
> facts:
> 
> 1. They intend to cap only the upload of data through BT, not
> download. It seems they want to cut your upload bandwidth in half
> (i.e. in my case to 400 kbps from 800)
> 2. They're "in progress" on this capability right now. That is, it's
> not working as intended in all locations.

Why stop at 400kbps?  They can do all the way to 54kbps (dialup), and
solve all their upload bandwidth problem. :-)

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