New at Rogers.

[James Knott]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:20:48PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>>> I just received an interesting letter from Rogers.  It seems they've 
>>> started a new policy, where you're allowed to exceed a download limit 
>>> (my limit is about 20x what I've been doing), but you get charged 
>>> extra for it.  They also send a notice when you approach and reach 
>>> your limit, so you can take appropriate action.  While I'm not keen 
>>> on limits, it does beat the previous practice where someone could be 
>>> cut for going over.
>>
>> Well they also upped the speed on most of the plans, and downed the
>> previous limit a bit (100GB went to 95GB).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?

I have the Extreme, with 10 Mb down & 1 up.  I think you'll find any 
provider has asymmetrical bandwidth, unless you buy dedicated DS1 or DS3 
connections.  In ADSL, upstream bandwidth is limited by how the 
frequency spectrum is divided and on cable, by contention issues.


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