Conversation with Rogers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 08:32:47AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Regarding their requirement for a modem. I have two thoughts.
> 
> 1) It may be possible they they are compressing data.... and the modem
> really is part of the compression.

No docsis 3.0 modems can use multiple channels at once.  Docsis 2.0
modems can only use one channel.  This limits the speed based on the
channel sizes available.

> 2) if the above isn't true then the way to go after them is for misleading
> advertising. They are saying you get 80G for the same price, but have to
> buy a modem for more money

Well I know I had a cap of 95GB/month with my own modem on rogers with
the extreme service, while those with new modems and the higher speed
got 80GB/month.  I guess my cap was an old code you couldn't get anymore,
but I still had it because it was an existing setup.  At least that made
more sense.  More speed or more data but same price.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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