New at Rogers.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:28:34AM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Rogers also reduced the upload rate on the Express plan, which I have, 
> from 768k to 512k. Upload speed is a big issue for me as I often find 
> myself uploading large files to various colocated servers. This amounts 
> to a hidden price increase. Previously, the difference between "Extreme" 
> and Express was not sufficiently large for me to bother because the 
> "Extreme" (what a dumb name) was only something like 800k up.

I hadn't noticed.  Extreme has gone from 800k to 1M though.

> Their various plans make no sense. The "Extreme Plus" (another dumb 
> name) plan is 18M down/1M up. That is such a ridiculous up/down ratio, 
> not to mention that the whole point of having an 18M pipe is to be able 
> to download lots of large files. That plan has the same 95GB "allowance" 
> (Isn't Uncle Ted so generous and benevolent?) as the "Extreme" so what 
> good is being able to download files faster if you have a cap that is 
> the same as a plan with half the cost?

You get to spend less time waiting for your files but only get the same
amount of files?  No it doesn't make much sense to me either.

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Len Sorensen
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