What Rogers call 'service' [was: Micro Routers (Was:Raspberry PI (as router))]

Bob Jonkman bjonkman-w5ExpX8uLjYAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 13 05:54:03 UTC 2012


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Even if Rogers does deliver what they're promising, it's not as good
as it sounds.

Their Ultimate Package[1] has 75 Mbps download speed, but a 250 GByte
cap. 75 Mbps is about 7.5 MBytes/s (accounting for start bits, stop
bits, and other bits), which gives you just under 10 hours to reach
your limit.  My month has more hours than that...

- --Bob

[1] http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans
[2] 250 GBytes = 250,000 MBytes; (250,000/7.5)/60/60 = 9.25 hours

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On 06/12/2012 09:34 PM, James Knott wrote:
> DAVID CHIPMAN wrote:
>> Rogers is offering up to 75 Mb/s down.
>> 
>> You lucky dog you! That may be what they're offering, but do you
>> get that?
> 
> I can't say, as I don't have that package.  However, in my
> experience what Rogers delivers is very close to what it promises.
> A couple of years ago, the CBC compared several ISPs.  Rogers
> delivered what they promised, with Telus not too far behind.  On
> the other hand Bell was the worst.  As part of their test, they
> downloaded an Linux ISO and after several hours, Bell hadn't even
> finished, whereas Rogers took about 20 minutes, IIRC.
> 
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