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37th Chamber posted:If they're not paying for a dry-loop the port has just fallen back to its un-provisioned speed (usually 3Mbps). If they're CO-fed that speed could stay there forever, if its remote fed it could die at any minute if they need a port. Only way to fix it is start paying for a dry-loop, or resume getting traditional phone service and get another DSL 'install' (either of which will cost your parents $50 installation). Thanks. The 3Mbps makes sense. I'm not too concerned about the DSL service right now because I plan on setting them up with cable internet soon. My concern was if there would be any issue with getting cable internet with a company other than Rogers. I don't know if the Rogers home phone installation would screw up anything for when I order the cable internet. I'm not too familiar with wiring or the backend of things. Wanted to check and minimize any potential problems.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I'm cheating. I have a box serving up Linux distros, but I pay for it so why the hell not? I used to think I was a big user pulling 14-16 GB per month on my wireless plan...
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Antifreeze Head posted:I used to think I was a big user pulling 14-16 GB per month on my wireless plan... I have a 150MB (yes, that's megabytes) cap on my wireless plan (phone) and i never go over. On the internet at home ... yes, 400GB+ every month. Why wouldn't I? I just bought 4 more 4TB hdd's, gotta fill them up with something.
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Bieeardo posted:Jesus Christ, I never thought I'd say it, but I think I need to call Bell and see if they can run DSL to this decrepit shack. I've had week-long periods of near-total service outage since September, thanks to unexplained noise on the lines here in London, and I think it's actually managed to get worse. I feel like the loving Nineties are repeating on me. I've had the exact same thing happen at exactly 7:15pm out here in Cambridge every day for the past eighteen days. It lasts until about 7am, and it's practically unusable. Rogers has no idea what the gently caress is causing it, either. Hello, Bell 
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Volguus posted:I have a 150MB (yes, that's megabytes) cap on my wireless plan (phone) and i never go over. On the internet at home ... yes, 400GB+ every month. Why wouldn't I? I just bought 4 more 4TB hdd's, gotta fill them up with something. If I didn't use my phone for work, I doubt I'd go over ever with 100MB either. But for work, emails, attachments with said emails and sending photos back and forth takes me up to around the 500mb/month figure but I've not gone over my 600mb (or whatever) cap, luckilly.
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CRTC starts baring it's teeth. Executes it's first ever warrant on a call centre.http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/11/27/crtc-executes-first-ever-warrant-on-brampton-telemarketer.html posted:Sunny Freeman Business Reporter, Published on Fri Nov 27 2015
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Wake me when they do to the cartel what happened to the chocolate companies a few years ago.  Rogers delenda est
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Mister Macys posted:Wake me when they do to the cartel what happened to the chocolate companies a few years ago. You mean file splashy charges that the Crown prosecutors quietly drop with no explanation two years later? edit: that came off snarkier than intended: I was kind of surprised to find out that had come to nothing but I guess the evidence the Competition Bureau referred (even with a few of the companies copping pleas or going narc) wasn't as strong as they thought? Dropping the legal hammer isn't generally as easy as it looks. Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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 Oh, so business as usual again. Thanks Harper. Fire everybody and start over. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Skandranon posted:God damnit Rogers, I don't want your stupid bundled crap. I'm waffling. Even with the old better choice discount going away, their middle-tier Ontario bundle is about $20 less than I'm currently spending for the same stuff, but with more channels I won't watch, unlimited Canadawide LD we'd actually use and an unlimited bandwidth cap that would come in really handy. The sticker is that it's only a two-year term, and the price is only guaranteed "during that term". So in two years and a day you know they're going to jack it up to whatever price they feel like. Rogers is normally really good about respecting grandfathered plans and they've never raised my rate or reduced the service value on me (my internet plan's been upgraded four times for nothing), so giving them explicit permission to do that has me worried. Also their cable rates don't cover the PVR rentals but hell if I'm buying one of those things outright, the way they seem to drop dead.
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Got a call from a friendly fellow from Telus tonight, since we've been going over the data cap by 50-100GB a month they drop the price of unlimited to $15 from $30 (I don't have Optik). Sucks having to pay more for unlimited now but it's a pretty hassle free option overall. Related, anyone ever have luck calling up and asking for a lower rate? I saw some globe and mail news article about that. Not just a lower rate for 6 months either..
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Well, supposedly Netflix is going to start enforcing regions and block VPNs. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/netflix-to-block-proxy-access-to-content-not-available-locally/article28181637/ While I suspect there will be some ways to get around it, it will probably be enough to stop the casual users and Grandma/Grandpa. Long term goal of Netflix appears to be global licensing, so that would be nice if & when that happens. I'll still keep it and probably won't try to bypass it unless it's trivial. Canadian Netflix has actually gotten semi decent in the past several months but still a ways from the US.
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slidebite posted:Well, supposedly Netflix is going to start enforcing regions and block VPNs. Welp, that's annoying. Hopefully not too difficult to circumvent.
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If they lock to your billing it would be difficult to ever circumvent unless you start getting payment methods in other countries. It will be months/years of the cat/mouse game, at some point its just easier to get it else where,  or otherwise.
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I have an unblock-us subscription but to be honest I haven't switched countries in a while, most of what I've wanted to watch of late was on the Canadian Netflix. I find it's better for movies while the US netflix is better for tv series, with occasional outlier pther countries (NZ/Scandinavia) for really recent release movies.
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Sort of similar here. There has been times where I haven't updated my IP and only noticed it when a few shows we normally watch aren't available for streaming. The shows have really improved and I like how they've been increasing the TV series and documentaries, we probably watch those more than movies now. There are some shows we like only on the US side, like some food network shows and a few series which we don't get here, but to be honest we've probably already watched most of the ones that interest us. I suspect I'll just cancel my adfreetime account if and when this is implemented. I really like the idea of them pushing for global rights and I think that's where it is naturally going to flow to eventually. It will be interesting how the regional upstarts like Crave and Shomi will try to muscle the networks with broadcasting (probably go crying the the CRTC). I think it could be a really interesting scenarios where you're going to get Global divisions like Sony Canada and the revenue streams being changed even more drastically. 37th Chamber posted:If they lock to your billing it would be difficult to ever circumvent unless you start getting payment methods in other countries. - I would think that is a far preferable course of events for them but  Looking at it that way, It could almost be a renaissance of torrenting TV programs for those that never would have before. Buy stock in Private Internet Access 
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Global licensing will never work for TV shows. Movies are simpler; many studios already do their own worldwide distribution.
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Oh man I've had a great thing going with Unblock-us for years now, I guess it was bound to come to an end eventually.
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I've been using Tunlr for the past year while it was in beta (and before then as well before they shut down). Since they work via DNS, I'm hoping they'll still work (especially since I just signed up for a year with them). I'm also waiting for them to support Amazon video.
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I'm assuming they will do do some geo-ip lookup poo poo with the actual streams to lock people out. I have a US Netflix account with a US billing address but I suspect it won't be that easy. I also have Tomato redirect all DNS requests through adblockfree but again I doubt the workaround will be that simple.
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Speculation is they'll restrict to your billing address country.
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Aphrodite posted:Speculation is they'll restrict to your billing address country. I sent David Fullagar a polite rant about it yesterday and was surprised when he (or a secretary) responded. quote:Thanks for the email. I understand your frustration. When you travel to Canada from the US (or travel to other parts of the world) you'll see some titles that you are familiar with, some titles that wont be available, but also some additional titles that we aren't able to offer domestically. We realize this is confusing, and we are working to change this, as I discussed briefly in the blog post. We try to make the content available in each country be better and better, so I hope you'll be able to see that as you use the service in the future. Sounds like geo-IP to me if it changes depending on your location constantly but I guess we'll see what happens. I hope its billing address based because I'm already all set for that.
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Oh I'm sure the geo IP will be part of it. Even under a billing address restricted setup, the most likely way it would work is that you'd only be able to see content available in both your home country and current country, plus probably stuff in a "Available in all countries except..." model, accounting for that 'that we aren't able to offer domestically' mentioned in the email. They can't simply show you your home country's content wherever you are, because that would violate their licensing.
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I never used these services, but I thought the whole point of them was to make it look like your requests were coming from a US IP address, which would only make sense if Netflix already used geo-IP. I'd have thought it meant they would be blacklisting IPs belonging to known proxies.
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zergstain posted:I never used these services, but I thought the whole point of them was to make it look like your requests were coming from a US IP address, which would only make sense if Netflix already used geo-IP. The way the DNS ones work is that they handshake for you, but then hand off and the video stream is actually direct to Netflix. Netflix does not currently re-check during the stream. They already do the latter.
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I think it works like the CDN node model, they're just using geographical DNS to serve up the content instead of actually checking the incoming IP address. The DNS redirectors just say you're coming from a US location so you get a US content server/stream. I would imagine that they will actually lock out the US catalog from any incoming IP that isn't from the US which will mean VPNs will be required instead of just DNS redirection. Since a lot of people already use VPNs anyway the speculation is that there will be some sort of secondary ruleset like blacklisting proxies or the billing address thing to prevent it. Anyways I guess we'll see what happens. Worst case scenario I will just go back to other methods to get geo locked content, Netflix was just easier and a salve on my conscience.
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It's easy enough to just get a US Visa gift card or something when you're in the States anyway, unless you're some crazy person who doesn't live in southern Quebec, Ontario or BC. But at this point I can't drop Netflix Canada anyway, mainly because it has The 100. I catch the CW, but not in HD. In similar news, CraveTV went live for everyone last night I guess. Free trial. I guess I'll check it out, they do have the Sarah Connor Chronicles which I hear is good and not on any other service.
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Aphrodite posted:In similar news, CraveTV went live for everyone last night I guess. Using CraveTV or Showmi is kinda like buying blood diamonds. Probably better off with more ethical alternatives to supporting the cartel like or shady streaming sites.
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I get Shomi for free and it's a good source of iZombie episodes and things I missed that week.
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flakeloaf posted:
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I have no idea if I have Shomi or not. I think Rogers gave me a free trial for it but it was a time limited thing? Last time I checked plans they all offered 1 month of Shomi. Oh boy! I don't really get why it isn't just something you get with your internet, seeing as they have exclusivity they can use it as a selling point to get people to go with them over Bell or other providers. Oh right, they don't actually need to compete. Pretty upset about the netflix situation because it's reminded me how dumb broadcast rights are in the face of the internet.
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Aphrodite posted:Rogers offers it with mobile instead of TV or internet for some reason. That's weird, because I have it for free and I haven't been a Rogers Mobile customer in years (but I'm with them for both Internet and TV so I'm not sure which it came with, and I moved to a new bundle in December so I wouldn't think I'm grandfathered).
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Rogers was offering it free with the Ignite packages for a while. They changed the promotion last month and no longer offer NHL Game Center or Shomi with new sign ups AFAIK.
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slidebite posted:Buy stock in Private Internet Access Depending how aggressive they are with this "war" on region shifting, organized services like this could die off pretty fast. It's not hard for Netflix to just buy a couple subscriptions and start blocking the IP ranges they land on. Some services even go as far as blocking dedicated servers/VPS services claiming they're all proxies. And for the record, they can detect DNS services as well as VPNs, I contacted their support once and they mentioned seeing me bounce around the world, so both services will probably be hit. vvv Oh, durr, yeah that makes sense. 
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37th Chamber posted:Depending how aggressive they are with this "war" on region shifting, organized services like this could die off pretty fast. It's not hard for Netflix to just buy a couple subscriptions and start blocking the IP ranges they land on. Some services even go as far as blocking dedicated servers/VPS services claiming they're all proxies. I think slidebite was meaning "Buy stock in Private Internet Access because people are going to switch back to torrenting now that they can't use Netflix like they used to"
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infernal machines posted:Rogers was offering it free with the Ignite packages for a while. They changed the promotion last month and no longer offer NHL Game Center or Shomi with new sign ups AFAIK. Taking a look at their site, they still offer GameCentre and Shomi (and sometimes Centre Ice) with most of their TV+Internet bundles so that's probably how I get it.
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Skandranon posted:I think slidebite was meaning "Buy stock in Private Internet Access because people are going to switch back to torrenting now that they can't use Netflix like they used to"
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