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Siochain posted:There's a few others that I haven't had enough coffee to remember yet, but we have produced a lot of quality TV I wouldn't go quite so far. Most of the bad stuff has been due to lack of budget though. The well funded stuff is as good/bad as anything from the US.
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Siochain posted:I'll stab you for not liking the Littlest Hobo. Bring it. I will gladly fight to the death over the terribleness that was Canada's Lassie. That said, yes I'm being mostly facetious.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 16:18 |
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Showcase has some decent original programming since Shaw bought them and killed all the obscure European soft porn.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 16:45 |
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Shumagorath posted:Rogers has decent plans for landline internet but they do shady things like traffic injection (and lied to me three times before I quit back in 2007). Their cell service is still preferable to Wind where it's usually "works at your house or office but never both". That funny. Bell tech support was done by the same company I did rogers tech support with(alpine access) to my knowledge. Which hires people state side and Canada side only for work from home or center work.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 17:18 |
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Shumagorath posted:Showcase has some decent original programming since Shaw bought them and killed all the obscure European soft porn. Yeah, Continuum has been great! Although it's ending in a few months.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 18:07 |
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I for one really miss PJ Katie's Farm.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 22:12 |
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Snit was the best thing to happen to YTV.
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 02:17 |
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A talking TV screen? Really? Not the asian dude or the girl?
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 02:59 |
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Mister Macys posted:A talking TV screen? Really? Not the asian dude or the girl? To make you feel really old, this is PJ Phil today:
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 03:00 |
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Mister Macys posted:A talking TV screen? Really? Not the asian dude or the girl? What can I say? Putting a set of dentist's demonstrator teeth on CCTV was inspired.
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 03:33 |
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Phil showing off his jewelry is a childhood memory
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 05:26 |
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JawKnee posted:Phil showing off his jewelry is a childhood memory One time he flipped his hair forward and put his sunglasses over it.
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 07:15 |
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I was a bit old at the time for the YTV PJ's, but anyone remember Sugar? That girl with the ultra-high voice who was all sugar and spice and girly and forever young? I worked with a guy who was dating her at the time, and he always regaled us with endless stories of his sloppy, dirty bone-down sessions with her, and she did the voice during it.
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 08:01 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I was a bit old at the time for the YTV PJ's, but anyone remember Sugar? That girl with the ultra-high voice who was all sugar and spice and girly and forever young? You friend the luckiest dude in the world (Canada/Ontario).
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 15:31 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I worked with a guy who was dating her at the time, and he always regaled us with endless stories of his sloppy, dirty bone-down sessions with her, and she did the voice during it. Having sex with an Anime
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 17:54 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I was a bit old at the time for the YTV PJ's, but anyone remember Sugar? That girl with the ultra-high voice who was all sugar and spice and girly and forever young? Probably true. When she was a guest at AN, she spent her nights in the 24 hour hentai room. Often with other guests...
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 18:17 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I was a bit old at the time for the YTV PJ's, but anyone remember Sugar? That girl with the ultra-high voice who was all sugar and spice and girly and forever young? Given your friend's regaling, and the fact that her last name is Beard, maybe he was trying to tell you something.
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 18:19 |
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EoRaptor posted:Probably true. When she was a guest at AN, she spent her nights in the 24 hour hentai room. Often with other guests... She sounds like my cup of tea
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 19:18 |
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Continuum is awesome.
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# ? Jun 12, 2015 15:15 |
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So I was talking with my boss today and it seems the CRTC is polling all the ISPs for their subscriber stats to determine what constitutes basic service. Right now it's considered just dialtone services but it seems the intent is to add broadband. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-134.htm
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 15:09 |
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And Bell Canada officially announces their Gigabit Fibe/FTTH offering is starting roll out in the fall. http://www.stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2015/06/25/bell-gigabit-fibe-bringing-the-fastest-internet-to-toronto-residents-with-a quote:Bell Gigabit Fibe bringing the fastest Internet to Toronto residents with a billion-dollar+ network investment, creation of 2,400 direct jobs
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 15:56 |
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My parents neighbourhood had FTTH installed by Bell last summer. The can get 250/250 with unlimited bandwidth for $95 a month.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 16:09 |
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I hate and love the "Fib" brand. I hate it because it includes non FTTH services and it's really frustrating for consumers. I like it because those frustrated customers come to us instead. Anyways, I wonder how they will be deploying this. If it's GPON, an endpoint could technically get gigabit on it, but it is a shared circuit (16, 32 or 64 split). It really depends on the optics though.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 16:19 |
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What's the quote for that? Knowing bell it's probably 40gigs.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 19:36 |
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EngineerJoe posted:What's the quote for that? Knowing bell it's probably 40gigs. 10 gigabytes! That's over one million email messages!
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 19:53 |
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I don't even care about speed beyond like 30Mbps, I just want decent usage packages.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 19:57 |
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EngineerJoe posted:What's the quote for that? Knowing bell it's probably 40gigs.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 20:10 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:if you mean me, the $95/month quote was for unlimited bandwidth at 250/250. Yeah, that would do nicely. *crosses fingers*
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 01:14 |
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Well since its free for 6 months, I ended up with Rogers FTTH Advertised as 250/20, I'm usually averaging closer to 330/20 ... so not bad! Not sure why the upstream is capped so low when it's obviously capable of much much more I guess to prevent evil file sharing
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 05:56 |
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bigmandan posted:Anyways, I wonder how they will be deploying this. If it's GPON, an endpoint could technically get gigabit on it, but it is a shared circuit (16, 32 or 64 split). It really depends on the optics though. Since they claim a 940mbps limit, that basically means it's EPON (due to it's like 30% overhead on 1.25gbps).
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 20:17 |
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Here's to hoping that MTS rolls out fibre to all Winnipeg neighbours before my household loses its Shaw employee discount next year! Is Bell horribly sick or something? Those fibre plans are actually decent.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 20:34 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Is Bell horribly sick or something? Those fibre plans are actually decent. This is what happens when there is proper competition, in the Toronto core there are a handful of small ISP's rolling out FTTP for MDU's for lower than Bell offered its 50Mbps VDSL2. John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jun 27, 2015 |
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It'd actually be worth it to go back to the mother corp if the speeds are decent and usable.
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# ? Jun 28, 2015 05:29 |
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Bell rep came to the house the other day offering "fiber", but it was FTTN, not FTTH...so 50/10 instead of my current 25/10, but twice the price and with a 200GB cap.
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# ? Jun 28, 2015 13:53 |
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Ahahaha.
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# ? Jun 28, 2015 19:26 |
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I'm right at the edge of cutting my cable, and I can just imagine the bullshit that is going to flow from the retention reps mouth. It's gonna be great!
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# ? Jun 28, 2015 23:54 |
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See how far you can lead him/her on until you break their Flavor-Aid poisoned heart.
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# ? Jun 29, 2015 01:10 |
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Had a scare yesterday when my internet died exactly at 5:00pm. I figured it was for sure something on their end with the timing, but the tech eventually found that the people renovating the unit below me had cut my line while trying to reroute their own. Score one for Rogers, I guess?
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# ? Jun 29, 2015 02:54 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I'm right at the edge of cutting my cable, and I can just imagine the bullshit that is going to flow from the retention reps mouth. Oh yeah, it's especially great when they call you every few days trying to get you back. We switched off Bell POTS ($50 a month for a single number and voicemail) to VOIP (averaging $7 a month for all the features) and Bell hounded us for weeks. Blacklisted all the numbers their retentions used and they only recently stopped sending us flyers with terrible package deals. Hoping the TPIAs get access to that sweet fiber they're rolling out, though. 250/250 unlimited at a fixed rate is actually a step in the right direction for them.
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# ? Jun 29, 2015 03:28 |
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No too worried about harassing phone calls. My phone doesn't even ring if the number isn't in my contact list. And poo poo mail goes in the recycling box right next to mailbox.
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