[CA] Internet costs to rise

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I'm with Teksavvy and my Motorola Surfboard SB5101N doesn't have that cover on the coaxial jack. Granted, I ordered the modem online (through Teksavvy) and installed it myself; however, I didn't have it with rented modems from Rogers.

[Lexcyn]

Actually Vianet runs over the Bell and Eastlink infrastructure and are in the same boat for DSL but just haven't implemented their own monitoring solution yet. Eastlink hasn't implemented bandwidth caps on their 15mb cable yet so that one is safe for now. Vianet does have it's own uplinks to Toronto for it's fiber infrastructure but that's corporate clients only as far as I know.

For now yes they use Bell for DSL and Eastlink for cable, but once they finish rolling out their own infrastructure they will be offering TV, internet and phone to consumers using their own network.

BTW I am on the 15MB plan and have noticed they do EXTREME traffic shaping during peak times. Normally I will get around 1.5mb/s during the day, but come 5pm it goes right down.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

nope they must still give 30 days notice and with the new retroactive fees it pushes the dates back more.

If you use up you new cap 10 days into February they may throttle your connection to prevent Rogers from charging your ISP for your usage. There's probably something in your T&C/Usage Policy that says they have the right to control "abuse of their system". Unlimited internet thus gets limited by their definition of "abuse".

We'll see but I don't trust Bell/Rogers to be nice to their wholesale customers when they have been given permission from the CRTC to charge for "excess" bandwidth usage as of February 1st.

[qdave]

i hope my 7mbps unlimited plan wont be discarded by bell :(

[Fred Derf Veteran]

i hope my 7mbps unlimited plan wont be discarded by bell :(

With respect to Canadian internet usage, the word "unlimited" should always be used in quotations.

[treemonster]

I'm with Teksavvy and my Motorola Surfboard SB5101N doesn't have that cover on the coaxial jack. Granted, I ordered the modem online (through Teksavvy) and installed it myself; however, I didn't have it with rented modems from Rogers.

yeah i had a surfboard with shaw for years and none of that nonsense. there was aprovision in my contract with shaw not to move the modem myself, but they've never complained about me hooking it up myself in the 4 or 5 times i moved house during that time. although 3 of those times i ended up having a tech come out anyway to install new coaxial in the house and add or remove filters.

and at first it cost $20 cash per house call but later it was free, which was nice,a nd with two shaw customers in the house they were able to test both of us at the same time. kept getting the same guy a few times, and he was a bit weird, either bragging about haxing his phone or psp or w/e or talking about how he had wow on his 52" tv, but he was the best out of the ones i got in terms of the work he did, fast and thorough, and didn't report the one house i was sharing on teh service call for my bro's service with the hacked tv line.

[remus_lupin]

It's a good thing I spend most of my time at school... Truly unlimited bandwidth

[bolerodan]

I have a Cogeco modem and I also have that Security cylinder over the coaxial that connects into the modem. Above it is a sticker that mentions that this it is a security device and locked down for 911 reasons. Again I figure its to cover their ass so that no one can complain that when they unhooked their modem, they couldn't call 911 anymore. I dunno.

Also, Its very annoying...the guy hooked it up in one of our cabinets, unknowing about this security lock down clamp. we wanted to move everything out... and couldn't. we had to saw a hole in our cabinet to remove the friggen modem. .

[MR_Candyman]

On a similar related note, I just checked out what Xplornet is doing to me. They are not going to be charging more money, they will just be doing HEAVY traffic shaping. Read Below:

Starting March 1st , 2011 the Fair Access Policy on your platform will include the peak-hours rules mentioned above, but also some rules related to daily and monthly bandwidth allowances. If you exceed your daily or monthly allowance, your service will go into “Recovery Mode”. While in Recovery Mode, your speed will be restricted to a maximum of 10-25% of your normal maximum speed.

When you exceed your daily allowance, Recovery Mode will continue for a minimum of 12 hours. At the end of twelve hours, the system will reevaluate your usage over the prior 24 hours. If that usage is below the daily allowance, Recovery Mode will end and your speed will no longer be restricted.

Similarly, when you exceed your monthly allowance, Recovery Mode will continue for a minimum of 5 days. At the end of 5 days, the system will reevaluate your usage over the prior 30 days. If that usage is below the monthly allowance, Recovery Mode will end and your speed will no longer be restricted.

For me it's a daily bandwidth limit of 2GB and a monthly limit of 60GB since I'm on Xtreme. What this essentially means is that I will be in a constant state of only getting 10-25% of my maximum bandwidth because we have 3 people that use the internet all the time.

So far this month we have used just over 37GB of bandwidth and this has been a slow month for us for data usage. That's 3.08 GB per day. In fact, looking at the usage graph on my router, we used a very small amount the first 6 days (probably due to traffic shaping). For instance, the 3rd, which was a normal day for us, we only used 549MB, but the biggest day so far this month we have used 7.5GB (no idea what happened that day). Last month (again looking at my router's log) we used just over 150GB of data. The month before that 230, not including the first 5 days before I set up DD-WRT on the router. How the heck are we supposed to stay under 60?

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Wow. A 60 GB monthly bandwidth limit is bad but a 2 GB daily bandwidth limit is really bad. My family would use up 2 GB in a matter of hours.