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I just setup another Netflix account without any issue, it knew my CC was entered so I didn't get another free trial. No big deal. I tested it out and I have Star Trek up and it switched to HD!! Not even the loving Canadian one did this, I watched Exit Through the Give Shop earlier today and it never switched up.
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teethgrinder posted:You use their DNS server and it redirects for you. I've been using the service for around half a year now and can't complain. Was just curious, I mean I have access to US based dns servers. If that all they're doing surely a few changes to my personal servers would get by that. FWIW, dont pay for hulu plus. You still get commercials. quote:I just setup another Netflix account without any issue, it knew my CC was entered so I didn't get another free trial. No big deal. I tested it out and I have Star Trek up and it switched to HD!! Not even the loving Canadian one did this, I watched Exit Through the Give Shop earlier today and it never switched up.
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teethgrinder posted:Not free, but I'm really happy with usvideo.org. Almost done watching all of TOS That said, I use it too and I love it. I've been back to using Pandora and renting movies off Vudu as well. However, I miss Canadian Netflix. Personally, I think their selection is better than the US one. Vintersorg posted:I just setup another Netflix account without any issue, it knew my CC was entered so I didn't get another free trial. No big deal. I tested it out and I have Star Trek up and it switched to HD!! Not even the loving Canadian one did this, I watched Exit Through the Give Shop earlier today and it never switched up.
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Sep 4, 2011 12:05
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The Gunslinger posted:That's just the go-to residential customer response because business customers typically get treated better. I was hearing the same thing from UUNet dialup customers like 15 years ago, some things never change. I worked at third party who did tech support for such cable company. There is client that doesn't know the difference with a network failure and a power failure. Their view if there it electricity it should work. Also when power failure happens their modem will stay alive for about 8 hours. I had client calling me because their phone wasn't working in such case, 99% of the time was because it needed power. I even had to sent a tech to such a client because she insistent it didn't power, turns out it did and she had to pay for it.
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I am on the Shaw Extreme package, so I get like, 300GB I think. Altho with all my downloading, I will have to be careful. Uploading actually works now with my new router (I had some POS Linksys that had blocked ports and it wouldn't even let me get into the settings to change it, got a 404) and doing so at 300KB can gently caress me up. At least my ratios are good. 
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Sep 4, 2011 16:28
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teethgrinder posted:Not free, but I'm really happy with usvideo.org. Almost done watching all of TOS holy poo poo thanks for this. when I set it up at the router level its completely transparent to everything in my house
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I signed up for the usvideo.org trial and it works fantastically well. I don't care for netflix or hulu or whatever, I just want to use it for the BBC iPlayer. Except I'm really hesitant on spending money on these guys because how is this even remotely legal? It's circumventing numerous content & copyright contracts so wouldn't it be a case of 1000s of high priced lawyers just waiting to pounce on this thing? They only came into existence early this year, right? Then again it's only $5/mth so even if they do get shut down tomorrow it's not much money down the hole.
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XausF1 posted:I signed up for the usvideo.org trial and it works fantastically well. I don't care for netflix or hulu or whatever, I just want to use it for the BBC iPlayer. Except I'm really hesitant on spending money on these guys because how is this even remotely legal? It's circumventing numerous content & copyright contracts so wouldn't it be a case of 1000s of high priced lawyers just waiting to pounce on this thing? They only came into existence early this year, right? I've been using them without any problem for 6 months now. It works really well with my WD TV Live Plus.
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Sep 5, 2011 15:41
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Can we abolish the CRTC already
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tripwire posted:Can we abolish the CRTC already Only if we replace it with something better. No regulation is not better than lovely regulation.
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8ender posted:holy poo poo thanks for this. when I set it up at the router level its completely transparent to everything in my house
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Lone Rogue posted:Only if we replace it with something better.
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tripwire posted:drat, its hard to imagine how anything could be better than a commission who has made their mandate the protection of big business It's bad enough that the CRTC saw no problem with caps but were able to suspend that decision until they had more information. Imagine how much better it would have been if Bell were free to decide "gently caress third party ISPs, we're running the whole game now!", with nothing to stand in their way. It's lovely that by being a Teksavvy customer I'm subsidizing Bell's campaign to ruin the third party ISP market. But it could be much worse without the CRTC.
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Well they may be ineffectual and in bed with the corporations, but at least that false dilemma never happened.
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If my internet goes out and I'm a residential customer I don't see why I'm not entitled to get pissed off. The internet is a utility just like gas and hydro. Those rarely go out and if they do it's only because of some significant event. ISP service goes down all the time and it should not be acceptable. My lovely Cogeco connection dies at least once every night early in the morning because those assholes think that just because less people are using it in the early morning it is acceptable to power cycle their equipment or do maintenance. The fact that being able to pause/resume incomplete downloads is so prevalent is a sad testament to the shitness of ISPs. When you're browing the net you don't notice the periodic hiccups but when you need to maintain an open connection for eight hours you sure notice. cowofwar fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Sep 5, 2011 |
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Sep 5, 2011 23:44
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If I already have Canadian Netflix, will using usvideo automatically switch me to US netflix when I try to access it or do I need to sign up for a seperate Netflix US account?
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MeestarK posted:If I already have Canadian Netflix, will using usvideo automatically switch me to US netflix when I try to access it or do I need to sign up for a seperate Netflix US account? You need a US Netflix account, billing address and credit card. Entropay is what I use and it's been working fine.
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tripwire posted:Well they may be ineffectual and in bed with the corporations, but at least that false dilemma never happened. "No CRTC" sounds wonderful, but not when there is restrictions on non-Canadian companies setting up still. Cry "Free Telecom Market" not "Free from CRTC". It makes a little more sense to your cause. No CRTC with Bell just means Bell controls Canada. No restrictions means companies from all over the world can come in and compete with Bell. Sounds much better to me.
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Stanley Pain posted:You need a US Netflix account, billing address and credit card. Entropay is what I use and it's been working fine. I just signed up with my PC Financial MC and it worked fine?
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8ender posted:I just signed up with my PC Financial MC and it worked fine?
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...weird! Guess I can stop topping up my Entropay account.
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kuddles posted:Yeah, Netflix US now accepts credit cards from anywhere. Really? loving sweet 
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Rogers to gamers: Do you play games? Boo hoo.
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Jetfire posted:Rogers to gamers: Do you play games? Boo hoo. How funny is the title of that article: "it may be " . WTF? It is throttling games. How I wish to be able to throttle my bill payment as well. "Hey Rogers, i guess you went over the allocated income bandwith for this month. Instead of 2$ per day, i'll squeeze the output to 0.1 cents per day". It should be only fair. I should only pay what I consume, don't they say that already?
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EDIT: Oh, Murphy is the Gamers person. Problem is, TekSavvy Cable users in Ontario use Rogers lines, therefore they can get throttled by Rogers. It's something we cannot prevent and only monitor and report.
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Yea boy i'm glad shaw/telus dont do that here and have better/cheaper plans. I still dont understand how that works but i dont recall care.
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cowofwar posted:If my internet goes out and I'm a residential customer I don't see why I'm not entitled to get pissed off. The internet is a utility just like gas and hydro. Those rarely go out and if they do it's only because of some significant event. I was just going to say that recently Cogeco's idea of a significant event is "it being a weekday that ends in 'day'". My internet has been bouncing on and off for a big portion of the month. I hesitate to say it's a routine thing, they must be having some problems with the equipment because it's been near rock solid for a while before this month, but I'm getting a little frustrated that it's ongoing right now. It sucks that your equipment breaks but at the same time it sucks that my internet is down and I'd like to think I'm allowed to bitch about it  Also: Rogers article posted:All the applications classified as peer-to-peer traffic have a combined bandwidth of 80 kilobits per second or more – the threshold that trips the network traffic management system. I hope I'm not reading this right and that anything that sustains 80kbps is classified as p2p? That sounds ridiculous and basically any online game that isn't scrabble has a decent chance of tripping that. Xbox Live? PSN? e: Ehh, now that I think about it I may be exaggerating it. 80kbps is a fair amount, but I still think that it can be tripped pretty frequently. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Sep 7, 2011 |
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A four person Skype chat with HD feeds will probably trip the 80kbps
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I'm going to laugh every time I watch those stupid Rogers "you still get your internet from the phone company?" commercials. Blazing fast speed! (Just make sure you don't p2p over 80kbps  )
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Lone Rogue posted:Problem is, TekSavvy Cable users in Ontario use Rogers lines, therefore they can get throttled by Rogers. It's something we cannot prevent and only monitor and report. This isn't true.
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As someone on TSI cable in the toronto area I've never seen that 80kbps download limit. When the gf was on bell, I her torrents wouldn't go faster than 100k tops. We see 1.7-2.0 mbps on our torrent/web downloads. I've never had issues with any online games so far.
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Am I wrong, or doesn't Rogers have to give the wholesalers like TekSavvy access to the same speeds that they offer? Why is Rogers trying to sell me on 32 Mbps service when I can only get up to 15 with the TekSavvy cable that I have?
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thexerox123 posted:Am I wrong, or doesn't Rogers have to give the wholesalers like TekSavvy access to the same speeds that they offer? Why is Rogers trying to sell me on 32 Mbps service when I can only get up to 15 with the TekSavvy cable that I have? The CRTC needs to decide on pricing for a tier, based on submissions from the provider and the resaler. They've done this for basic tiers, and have until December 31st 2011 for all other tiers. Also, tiers are set by their 'name', not their speed. Rogers is upping their 15 mbits offering to 24 mbit, and Teksavvy users are getting the same bump for free. (also, 10 to 15 for all userS)
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EoRaptor posted:The CRTC needs to decide on pricing for a tier, based on submissions from the provider and the resaler. They've done this for basic tiers, and have until December 31st 2011 for all other tiers. But their highest tier isn't available at all to TekSavvy users yet... so, they don't have to give us access to it until the CRTC decides on pricing sometime before December 31st?
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thexerox123 posted:But their highest tier isn't available at all to TekSavvy users yet... so, they don't have to give us access to it until the CRTC decides on pricing sometime before December 31st? Yep.
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thexerox123 posted:But their highest tier isn't available at all to TekSavvy users yet... so, they don't have to give us access to it until the CRTC decides on pricing sometime before December 31st?
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Lone Rogue posted:EDIT: Oh, Murphy is the Gamers person.
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melon cat posted:This absolutely is not true. I've been using Teksavvy for a year on a dry loop. No throttling at all. Dry loop uses Bell, not Rogers.
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less than three posted:Dry loop uses Bell, not Rogers.
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StealthArcher posted:Welcome to Canada, would you like some Duopolic Rape? Just kidding, you don't get to choose. This is hardly unique to Canada; most places in the US have a similar setup.
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