Rogers@Home capping uploads/downloads to 5gb per month!! what to do!

[Quad]

i can't seem to find the newspaper article online, but i do have this link for an online petition that has a bit of info.

wtf are we gonna do now! we can't switch to dsl, because bell will soon be implementing this same cap.

no more movies/music

 

[Renob]

cancle

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Aren't they just rumours for now??

 

[LuNoTiCK]

If everyone just canceled together it would be far better.

 

[isekii]

get a group of people.. and just go back to dialup for a few month~>.

I'm sure they will give in.. if enough people does it~

 

[spanky]

stop downloading? hehee

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Is that general browsing or is that an actual download (as if they can tell the difference)? If it's general browsing, get new service. If it's downloads only, get over it and quit downloading pr0n and warez.

nik

 

[Quad]

yeah but cancelling means going back to dialup.... which is almost impossible

they have all their customers cornered. most people don't want to go to dialup, and at the same time they can't get dsl because of similar caps.

 

[Paulson]

Bandwidth = Expensive...

When you have people using it 24/7 for uploading and downloading, it gets to be quite expensive... to keep services up and running smoothly (which you'd bitch if there were often slow downs and disconnects which would be caused by people downloading too much crap) they need to keep people from using so much damn bandwidth...

I don't agree about 5gigs, I think 10 would be fair, but I'm not them...

Too bad, so sad. I do a lot of downloading per month, but don't download 5 friggen gigs monthly...

 

[hopefloats]

How much is 5gb anyway? and how do I find out how much I use in a month?

 

[mithrandir2001]

One thing I did admire about the new Comcast broadband service was their repeated use of the words "unlimited usage". I would definitely find 5GB/month too limiting.

 

[Quad]

i think 5gb is much too little

i can easily go over 5gb in music alone. a lot of the music i download gets deleted, or burned on cd. also a lot of other people will go well over 5gb with downloading music, movies etc

when i first bought this CRAPPY cable service (it's the crappiest cable in all of north america...hands down) it was unlimited
this is bs! they already charge $40 per month for crappy service

 

[TheKub]

They will probably get away with it if they want to sorry....... just like the dialup UNLIMITED if you read closely many tell you more than 8-12 hours a day is acctually a dedicated line and therefore they can cut you off/ cancel you / or charge you more. I havent heard it hapening to anyone but they are covered if they wish to enforce it...

 

[freebee]

5gb a month is only about 7 divx movies. Thats something you can get in a week. Not to mention if you stream audio which takes some bandwidth too. It seems like a very small amount to be limiting a power user to.

However, given that most people only use the internet for e-mail and browsing, these companies may actually pull it off without losing too many customers and save themselves a load of bandwidth in return. The cap makes some economic sense, even if it does cause some people to cancel.

 

[Russ]

You can't come anywhere near 5GB just surfing. Bummer, dudes, might have to start paying for some of that music.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Nocturnal]

do you think they'll eventually pull this off nationwide?

 

[charrison]

I guess you could always pay for your excessive usage....nah that is crazy.

 

[Pr0Hawk]

Well, with ATTBI you cant get speeds fast enough to reach over 5 gb a month

 

[Hubris]

5gigs really isn't that much. I use easynews to d/l TV shows I can't get at school, and it's 6gigs a month for $10, and I go through it fairly quickly. Glad there aren't any limits on my connection.

 

[Pepsi90919]

um, not whine on the forums?

i've had to deal with it for a year and a half...

 

[polypterus]

Geez, I've downloaded 1,179,665,835 bytes today alone, hope that never happens here. :Q

dc

 

[Eli]

Yeah, 5gb isnt really much. I do about 300megs/day. That's about 9gb a month, and I don't really download things like movies. I get songs, but not like tons at a time.. I have pretty limited musical tastes.. So.. I think it can rack up pretty quickly.

 

[RGN]

<< Well, with ATTBI you cant get speeds fast enough to reach over 5 gb a month >>



I'll hear that... It used to be good too...

 

[ViRGE]

<< You can't come anywhere near 5GB just surfing. Bummer, dudes, might have to start paying for some of that music.

Russ, NCNE >>



Russ, there are several good streaming legal stations that can suck up bandwidth like no tomorrow. Tag's Trance(at up to 160kb/sec), BBC's "Radio 1" at 128kb/sec, and Digitally Imported's Classic Symphonic are all licenced, legal stations that are capible of sucking up ~57MB/hour, or in other words, depletes the bandwidth reserve in under 4 days. Heck, throw in a Red Hat ISO set(2 CDs, each full, for a total of ~1.3GB), and you've cut the rate to under 3 days. Play CS 2 hours a day(which configured optimally, sucks ~5KB/sec), and you've used another 1GB over the month. 5GB doesn't last very long if you do anything but surf the web.

PS And for comparison's sake, I listen to Tag's Trance when I'm home working on the computer, which means I use up more than 200MB each day; I figure I use about 6.5GB/month just for it at ~3hours/day, although with weekends thrown in, That number may very well reach 8-10GB

 

[454Casull]

If it was a 10-15GB limit everything would be nice. No need to worry about slowass connections because the neighbourhood freaks keep downloading 24/7.