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04-20-2008, 08:53 AM
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Yup its happened i got a call friday saying theres a 60 gig cap on my internet, and thats i only have 10 left for the rest of the month.
WHAT A JOKE!.
They put their prices up, they put their speeds up, AND THEY CAP the bandwidth. I need a godd service provider ASAP. Anyone know one in Canada (Ontario)/ had experience with this? |
04-20-2008, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dartmouth, Canada | | | Shaw also caps downloads at around 60 GB/month. You can pay for other connections that allow for more total downloads. What are you downloading that has you downloading > 2 GB/day? The only person I know that got a similar phone call (from Shaw) was a friend of mine who downloads incredible numbers of movies. |
04-20-2008, 09:31 AM
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04-20-2008, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Kennethfaria  Yup its happened i got a call friday saying theres a 60 gig cap on my internet, and thats i only have 10 left for the rest of the month.
WHAT A JOKE!.
They put their prices up, they put their speeds up, AND THEY CAP the bandwidth. I need a godd service provider ASAP. Anyone know one in Canada (Ontario)/ had experience with this? | Its impossible to monitor the cap. I have a 60gig cap aswell and have about 75gbs in downloads this month. I have sympatico, so it might just be a rogers thing, But they cannot monitor/regulate those caps. |
04-20-2008, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by flakeh Its impossible to monitor the cap. I have a 60gig cap aswell and have about 75gbs in downloads this month. I have sympatico, so it might just be a rogers thing, But they cannot monitor/regulate those caps. | I'm sure that they can monitor the cap. Your internet router has a MAC and IP address. The ISP is using that to send you the information you request from the internet.
Just because they haven't monitored it doesn't mean they can't or won't
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04-20-2008, 11:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Check out if you can get persona. It is faster, about the same price and no cap. They don't service all of Ontario.
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04-20-2008, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by theshadow2001 I'm sure that they can monitor the cap. Your internet router has a MAC and IP address. The ISP is using that to send you the information you request from the internet.
Just because they haven't monitored it doesn't mean they can't or won't | I am aware of how MAC and ISP addresses work.
My brother works in a computer tech dept at an office store in town, On staff they have several employees of Bell and Rogers. Coming directly from these computer techs, they have both said that internet providers are not capable of effectively using a cap, becuase they do not have the ability to halt internet use once it hits a certain amount of use. Over a large city that would be a nearly impossible task. they can still monitor it, That part is easy, the hard part is capping gbs use. They use this as an idle threat to pull out more money. I'm running a 60gbs/month service plan, On average I use about 70-85 gbs/month....and I haven't gotten a call from sympatico, nor has my service been cut, nor has my plan started to cost more. |
04-20-2008, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Oliphant Ontario Canada | | | the cap isn't used to 'halt' internet use,, the cap is used to CHARGE EXTRA if you go over the cap... just like bell mobility and telus,, they allow so many gig per month INCLUDED in the monthly subscription,,, and YOU PAY for all over that 'cap'..
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04-20-2008, 12:41 PM
| | | | HOnestly i dont even download tonns of movies a month, just streaming everyday but thats FLV, and definitely does not add up to 50 gigs in 2 weeks.
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04-20-2008, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by thumbplucker the cap isn't used to 'halt' internet use,, the cap is used to CHARGE EXTRA if you go over the cap... just like bell mobility and telus,, they allow so many gig per month INCLUDED in the monthly subscription,,, and YOU PAY for all over that 'cap'.. | Well thats what I was thinking
However the fact that they aren't charging you or doing anything about the fact that your downloading more than what your agreement states isn't a bad thing. No ones going to deny the greatness of getting stuff for free.
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04-20-2008, 05:05 PM
| | | | oh no im not over the cap yet, have about 10 gigs left. but dang i can barely do anything on my pc since i have 10 gigs left for the rest of the month. |
04-20-2008, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Kennethfaria oh no im not over the cap yet, have about 10 gigs left. but dang i can barely do anything on my pc since i have 10 gigs left for the rest of the month. | Surely there is something you can download that you can use to monitor the amount of stuff your downloading from the internet. Just to check they are actually correct.
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04-20-2008, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by thumbplucker the cap isn't used to 'halt' internet use,, the cap is used to CHARGE EXTRA if you go over the cap... just like bell mobility and telus,, they allow so many gig per month INCLUDED in the monthly subscription,,, and YOU PAY for all over that 'cap'.. | I consistently go 10-15 gbs over per month, and have faced no extra charge yet. |
04-20-2008, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by flakeh I am aware of how MAC and ISP addresses work.
My brother works in a computer tech dept at an office store in town, On staff they have several employees of Bell and Rogers. Coming directly from these computer techs, they have both said that internet providers are not capable of effectively using a cap, becuase they do not have the ability to halt internet use once it hits a certain amount of use. Over a large city that would be a nearly impossible task. they can still monitor it, That part is easy, the hard part is capping gbs use. They use this as an idle threat to pull out more money. I'm running a 60gbs/month service plan, On average I use about 70-85 gbs/month....and I haven't gotten a call from sympatico, nor has my service been cut, nor has my plan started to cost more. | I can check my total download/upload through Shaw, so I'm sure that they can monitor it as well. My friend had his internet service cut off by Shaw. He called in and they told him it was cut off because he'd exceeded his total transfer allowance. They tried to sell him on a package that allowed for more total transfer, but he didn't want it. They reconnected him and told him how to check his total transfer and to keep it below the cap for both the download and upload. They let him go over for the month without attempting to charge him for it.
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