Amanda Mor
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Posted - 2010.11.03 05:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Brandoe Chung
I'm with Roger's myself. Last month about half way through the month I got the "You have used 75%" message. Then 2 days later after with just regular internet use I got the "You have used 100%" I called the customer service and at the end of the month my bill said I had used 0GB. It was a nice change. And the 98% bull is what they tell everyone. And they moved the max penalty to 50 bucks now I think.
Nah, it's still $25/mth. I've got that message on my browser a few times in the last few months, but I've never been charged for it - just call them up and say "HUH!!! What is this!!" and they'll waive the charges.
Originally by: Boogie Bobby
I live in somewhat rural Ontario (10 000 people along the 401) and the internet here is by far the worst, most expensive, heavily restricted garbage I've seen anywhere in Canada and I have lived in and used internet in every one of the provinces except PEI, NL and NB in the past decade. I can honestly say I had faster, cheaper - even adjusted for inflation- and unrestricted service 10+ years ago than I do today in Ontario.
My internet is capped at 20GB/month, bittorrent is throttled by my ISP when they choose, even without the throttle I'm lucky to exceed 40kbps and all this wonder costs me $47/mo. Teksavvy rides bell's lines and would be the same quality, albeit without the cap. We have only 2 other choices, satellite internet which is substantially more expensive, useless in anything more than light rain and similar speeds/caps or cable, which we're switching too, should be slightly faster and a 60GB cap but is only a few bucks cheaper.
Capped internet is bull**** and is really standing in the way we should be moving. How can I use online storage, netflix, steam and competitors, itunes etc etc etc when a single game is 50% of my cap and a single film is 5-10% and they take days to download. In it's current state I can't stream even the lowest quality videos.
To those of you who live in Western Canada, hold on to what you got. When I left Shaw and Telus were in a continual fight and customers really got a great product out of it. Bell, Cogeco, Rogers are all garbage and I'm sure all of them are chomping at the bit to destroy net neutrality. Bell and Rogers both own the largest TV networks up here and between the two of them have distribution rights to pretty much every primetime hit show on the air.
I think we're too late though. Too many people are computer idiots and the power is in the hands of greedy corporate *******s. You can easily check email and play farmville on 20GB/mo so what's the problem, right?
/rant off
TL:DR **** Bell.
There's a big ol' Internet deadzone between Toronto and Ottawa, so none of this is surprising. I assume you're talking about the Belleville area - nobody cares about that region, so I'd suggest moving. This is what happens when you have a big country. My parents live further east along the 401 in an even smaller area, and they had to erect a giant tower on their house to get a signal for their "wireless" internet (which they aren't supposed to have in their area).
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