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dcahrakos   490                   Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6526 days Last view: 6526 days |
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Well, I just found out why my internet was all slow, and retarded, turns out they limited almost every program in the book from running, because we went over our B/W Limit, although they never even thought about calling us and maybe telling us that we where, so for the past 2 months we were limited without really knowing, first I thought it was the PC, then I just got pissed off and quit lol...now everything is better, and we upped our B/W to 20GB... see if that lasts  if not, ill have to get DSL, although someone I know who has it gets unlimited BW, but the speeds are only at like 60 KB/s for $35 CAD....so maybe not..
anyone else hate their ISP Besides the AOL People(edited by dcahrakos on 01-03-06 01:56 PM) |
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DarkSlaya 930 Gamma Ray   Since: 11-17-05 From: Montreal, Canada Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| I don't *hate* my ISP.
But I do hate my download cap (20GB), however going over it doesn't slow down my internet (just costs lots of money). But hey, I do get 500-650kb/s speeds (sometimes 1mb/s) so I don't complain  |
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dcahrakos 490 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6526 days Last view: 6526 days |
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| yeah, it would have cost us $8 per GB over, and we were 21 GB over but since we didnt sing any agreement that they are allowed to charge us for going over, they just limited us, now though, they can charge us, but we have 20, so hopefully that wont happen again. |
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Cornellius Koopa  Since: 11-19-05 From: Quebec Last post: 6565 days Last view: 6565 days |
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Originally posted by DarkSlaya Sympatico ? |
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||bass Administrator  Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6310 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| What kind of crappy cable ISP do you people have? I have had 3 seperate cable internet providers and I have never -EVER- had something as rediculous as a monthly cap. | |||
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dcahrakos 490 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6526 days Last view: 6526 days |
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| mines a local company...everywhere here has monthly caps, even the DSL, although for $30 you can get unlimited but you get gay speeds, like 60 KB/s | |||
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DarkSlaya 930 Gamma Ray Since: 11-17-05 From: Montreal, Canada Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by ||bass actually, I wouldn't have a monthly cap if I were the one paying. |
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BMF54123 Since: 11-18-05 From: MOOGLES Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| I've never understood why download caps are necessary, or why Canada and the UK seem to be the worst offenders. I frequent another forum with a LOT of UK'ers, and they're constantly complaining about their crappy cable/DSL service, as well as deceptive/unfair/illegal business practices that put even the shadiest US businesses to shame.
What's the point of having broadband if you can't even take reasonably full advantage of it? |
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DarkSlaya 930 Gamma Ray Since: 11-17-05 From: Montreal, Canada Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by BMF54123 No idea why. Bandwidth is, after all, inexpensive. |
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Sinfjotle Lordly? No, not quite.  Since: 11-17-05 From: Kansas Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Ours used to be really good...
Then they seperated their service into two things, high speed broadband, and not-quite-as-high-speed broadband. Of course, monthly costs tricked my parents. |
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Yoshi Dude TO HELL WITH THIS  Since: 11-17-05 From: Fleepa Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| We've had Comcast ever since it was available to us, not even a year ago. I used AOL for years before that. =\ My mom wouldn't get DSL because of the installation costs.
60/month is pretty expensive for internet, but I don't pay. I experience problems every now and then.. but there's no cap. 8D |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...  Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by ||bassSame, I have two of them. One is free with my apartment really, I don't have to pay for it. It's the better one ironically. 8 mbit connection with no limits. Hell, I swear the IP is static too. 
And at home I have 0,5 mbit connection. It's fast enough for surfing, and it's really only noticeable when i'm downloading alot... or is on YTMND. xD Edit: Funny though, I have two logins... I use one for my Laptop and the other one for my home computer. I guess they would disconnect my home computer if I used that password, so that's why... (edited by Ailura on 01-03-06 08:45 PM) |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Australia still has download caps. There was a period where there was a lot of "unlimited" stuff, but most of that seems to have disappeared now.
Some places stop your internet entirely when you reach a cap. Others charge you a ridiculous amount when you exceed a cap. I like what my ISP does -- it packet shapes you down to much much slower speeds. I like my ISP, but then they are fairly reasonable with caps and such. Some ISP's are very deceptive with their pricing and caps and such. Some aren't so bad. Meh. |
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Danielle 6730 Administratorrrr HELLO THERE   Since: 11-17-05 From: California Rate me ^_^ Last post: 6310 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Cox. 
I was having quite a few problems with it last summer, but it seems to be working great now. I don't really care as long as it's working for me. |
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Koneko Plasma Whisp  Since: 11-17-05 From: Tartarus. We get faster internet than you. Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Cox. 
We have those bastards for all cable services. It stops working maybe two times a month, and when they send people to check it out they often make the problem worse. For example, last September or so, a repair crew dug up the underground line to verify it wasn't broken- then filled in the hole and left the three-inch-wide cable lying on the lawn. When we called them about this, they said we did it ourselves and maybe if we stopped the call then we could avoid being sued for fraud. Eventually we cleared up the situation... But by then, our neighbors we having problems, so the repair (Ha, ha, funny term for someone who breaks things) people dug up everyone's cable for a block, only to realize that the probalem was water damage to the basement of the house that was experiencing problems. And the owners had MENTIONED their basement having been flooded.
Fuckers. |
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Randle Bronto Burt Since: 12-05-05 Last post: 6700 days Last view: 6700 days |
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| I'm pretty sure my ISP puts a cap on BW and I suspect I may have gone over last month so we'll see how much they charge (I can't remember what the cap is or how much they charge. I seem to remember it was relatively cheap though).
They are crap for other reasons though. Over the summer they killed our connection quite a few times and it would take them days to reconnect us. There were apparent diagnosis procedures that took about 48 hours. Not that they worked, they never seemed to be able to fix the problem properly. A lot of the time it turned out to be that we lost the connection after they would try and upgrade our line to a 2 Mbit connection from 0.5. They could never tell us why it happened and we'd have to wait about a day for them to regrade us. We'd get a week online and then they'd try and upgrade us again. Eventually they sent out an engineer but he wasn't authorised to do much it seemed. He told us off the record that he thought it was our router playing up so my mother went and ordered a new router from the ISP (which would take a week to arrive) until I told her we could just go buy one. The best thing is is that now they're trying to sting us for that router. Before we went out to buy one, my mother made sure we could return the one we had just ordered from the ISP to them free of charge. They said it was fine etc etc and they'd send out a special postage bag which it would have to be in to be returned to them. It took ages to arrive but we sent it back. Now they're saying they never received it, have no record of a request for this particular postage bag and are saying that unless we can prove we sent it to them, they'll keep charging us for the router. They told us at the time though that recorded postage wasn't necessary because it was in this bag thing. My mother has threatened to go to the Ombudsman so we'll see if they back down |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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I had Cogeco, it rocked hard. Fast and reliable and even though your IP was supposedly dynamic it never changed. Best tech support ever too, and didn't block a damn thing. But, you guessed it... 15GB cap.  They didn't really seem to care if you went over (unless it was WAY over, but I only did that once and convinced them it was a virus  ) but I didn't want to risk the idea that they might. (They have a 30GB package for $20 more, but that still isn't enough, especially when Sympatico is unlimited for $5 more.)
So now I have Sympatico... totally stable and fairly fast, and no cap. Unfortunately the tech support sucks and they seem to be doing something to BitTorrent... it works fine but the light is always yellow. I get good up/down speeds, finish the downloads, upload for however long, but it stays yellow. (Maybe it's just a bug in the client... )
I'm with BMF... bandwidth caps are a gyp. Their only purpose is to stop people eating up all the bandwidth (and if that's a problem, then they need to supply more and/or upgrade their lines) and hamper piracy (like there isn't 15GB of legal things I want to download in a month). They're so last decade. Get with the times! |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker I'm not sure if this still applies, but when I was doing ISP work; it's not like the ISP (in Australia) gets an unlimited amount of bandwidth with which to supply their customers. They are charged for every single piece of bandwidth that their users use by the mb, and the challenge becomes to design plans (with caps) that are fair and reasonable to the client and still allow you to cover costs. I'm not sure how wholesale bandwidth charging goes in the US, but from what I hear it must be a dramatically different model to how it works here. :-/ From what a lot of you say, I can only assume that they buy a pipe rather than be charged by the mb. or something.... |
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Sonicandfails 910  Since: 11-17-05 From: Mass Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Yea I hate mine. Sometimes.
I have Comcast. Their cable is supurb. My friend gets 6.8 Mbps, and I get 6.6 Mbps. At my moms. You see, at my dads, I have the same internet, with about the same computer, but I only get like, 3.1 Mbps. I know thats good, but I want what I get at the other house. Thats really the only problem with it right now. It never really goes down, but when it does, its a bitch to call and wait in a 40 minute line to say, "Yea my towns Comcast seems to be out" and for them to say, "We know of the problem. You will have to wait it out." Wow. 40 minute wait for that? I COULDA GOT A BETTER ANSWER FROM MY ASS. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by TaraleOriginally posted by HyperHacker I think there's some of each. |
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