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Migishu posted:According to the Teksavvy forums on DSL Reports: Holy poo poo, they are/were paying $3000 (taking the Bell price) for 100MB? No loving wonder that my internet is as expensive as it is. So, can we expect then a reduction of prices? Not 20x, but something ... throw us a bone...
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The guillotine is too good for them. Bring out the knives and forks. Rogers delenda est
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Volguus posted:Holy poo poo, they are/were paying $3000 (taking the Bell price) for 100MB? No loving wonder that my internet is as expensive as it is. So, can we expect then a reduction of prices? Not 20x, but something ... throw us a bone... Yes, capacity based pricing was absolutely asinine, it was literally the number one cost for indies. Rogers: 100Mbps: Was $1,122.00, down to $319.68 1Gbps: Was $11,220.00, down to $3,196.80 Bell: 100Mbps: Was $1,383.12, down to $149.08 1Gbps: Was $13,831.20, down to $1,490.80 You can see a list of total costs here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LS69t55shCH8X7_LaNGQ0DkBIIdqXac0T3p1Uc5dBmM/edit#gid=4 It's interim pricing, there won't be too dramatic a drop until finalized, but its a huge win, and shows the CRTC is tired of their poo poo as well. John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Oct 8, 2016 |
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John Capslocke posted:Bell:  How are independents not massively losing money on every connection at that pricing? If Bell charges TSI $1,400 for 100Mbps, it seems like the 25Mbps connection I'm paying ~$50/mo for should instead cost around $350/mo. Are those prices per year instead of per month or something? Good on the CRTC for finally doing their loving jobs.
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ToxicFrog posted:
My understanding is that they're paying for the peak capacity that they can spread out among customers, and are betting that their customers won't all at once use their connections to the fullest. Similar to over-selling, except I remember Teksavvy was generally pretty good at keeping their network from becoming congested.
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ToxicFrog posted:
It's per month. They bill using 95th percentile (or burstable billing). So if their combined total for Bell customers was 10Gbps, they would have been paying $138,310/mo directly to Bell. It's why Teksavvy (and most TPIA) has the free 2AM - 8AM download window, that bandwidth is literally costing them thousands and just collecting dust overnight. And as far as I know, the links are symmetric despite uploading not being important to MANY customers, so they give free upload. John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Oct 8, 2016 |
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Oct 8, 2016 21:41
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John Capslocke posted:It's per month. They bill using 95th percentile (or burstable billing). Incorrect - it's a hard/fixed limit that is predetermined by the isp. Everyone wanted 95th usage billing, but Bell/etc wouldn't offer it.
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It seems shaw has shamelessly blocked sportsnet streaming for their customers because gently caress you.
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Powershift posted:It seems shaw has shamelessly blocked sportsnet streaming for their customers because gently caress you.  Huh?
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Nitr0 posted:
Both me and 2 friends in calgary are getting "not authenticated" right now, only allowing sportsnet one.  sportsnet says it's a shaw problem, shaw says they don't control sportsnet and to just watch it on tv.
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It's probably because Matthews broke the NHL.
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Squibbles posted:That said, I too am going back to Shaw for the sweet sweet 150mbps deal. Shaw called to offer me a "special loyalty rate" for 150mbps service that was only $5/mo more than what I was paying. I declined. When I check the website a week later, the regular price was $15/mo cheaper.
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I have taken to telling ISPs to pound sand when they call me to "offer special prices". In fact, when they call me at all.
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Ask for American rates/plans like it's a perfectly normal thing to do. :iamafag:
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I think the crtc (or someone with the authority) should ban all promotional pricing and product bundling I'm sure data caps and lovely speed would still exist but I think removing the telecoms ability to hide their prices would go a long way to improving internet in this god damned country
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I have taken to telling ISPs to pound sand when they call me to "offer special prices". In fact, when they call me at all. A couple years ago Shaw would call and offer me the same internet package, cable, and home phone (which I'd leave unplugged in the corner) for $5 less a month than I was paying for internet for six months. I'd keep it for six months then go back to straight internet. Within a couple weeks they'd call and offer the same deal. Ended up having cable on and off for almost two years like that. About a year ago it switched to cable for an extra $20 so I haven't bothered since. Cable isn't really worth anything to be, but $5 off my internet service plus the backup option of cable wasn't bad I guess.
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My brother is moving just northwest of Ottawa (Constance Bay), and he's getting complimentary broadband because he'll be hosting a transmitter on his property. He's asked for a good consumer-level VOIP provider, and honestly? I have no idea who's still in the game these days. Anyone have any recommendations?
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I'm happy with voip.ms. It does require some manual setup but it's pretty straightforward.
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go fly a bike posted:I'm happy with voip.ms. It does require some manual setup but it's pretty straightforward. Same and I have no complaints. I also like some of the stuff it lets you do, like ring your home and cell phones at the same time so you can answer at either one. Or have a us number so people in the us can call you without using long distance minutes.
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Telus charged my 70+ year old inlaws $15 for overage this past month, presumably for streaming Netflix. They have a 200GB cap  gently caress Telus and gently caress stupid low caps. They've never been over, ever. Until now I guess, but not even a warning. slidebite fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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I used to have a 150gb cap (Rogers delenda est), and it's pretty easy to hit if you start falling asleep with it on. Nowadays, I do it with Youtube, cause I like those tibetan singing bowl videos (God, when did I become a loving adult...  )
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slidebite posted:Telus charged my 70+ year old inlaws $15 for overage this past month, presumably for streaming Netflix. They have a 200GB cap 
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slidebite posted:Telus charged my 70+ year old inlaws $15 for overage this past month, presumably for streaming Netflix. They have a 200GB cap Telus always emailed me a few times before I went over. Like at 75% or maybe at 90. Not sure if that's something you have to configure?
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Sashimi posted:That's relatively generous. I've got a 60gb cap with Rogers at my house. I used to live in a household of 5 people with a 60 GB cap. Needless to say we blew through it every month like clockwork, but the landlord who was paying for cable refused to upgrade the plan.
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Squibbles posted:Telus always emailed me a few times before I went over. Like at 75% or maybe at 90. Not sure if that's something you have to configure? God drat data caps drive me up the wall. If people like a couple of senior citizens that aren't torrenting warez or porn (no, he's not) blow over them, they are way to low.
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Sure my DL might only be 125 mbps and I am paying almost $90 for it, but buh god am I glad I don't have to deal with poo poo like data caps.
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I gotta say the horror stories are pretty crazy. I pay like $90 a month from rogers for 250/20mbps with unlimited data caps. Pricey, but worth it. Not sure how NYC internet works, but at least since I'm moving out of Rogers network in April I don't have to pay their crazy rear end $200 early cancellation fee.
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The Iron Rose posted:Not sure how NYC internet works, Or you can try DSL and get laughed out of everywhere you try to get service from. You'll feel right at home really.
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Teksavvy has made the CRTC costing proceeding documents publicly available. Undoubtedly to shine a light on the incumbents desperately trying to gently caress over them as much as possible. https://ln.sync.com/dl/a48ca5050#dgwr6tra-icarsyuu-dxzdtph7-twtcd2ki
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Any highlights? My legalese is woefully undeveloped.
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Mister Macys posted:Any highlights? My legalese is woefully undeveloped. Oh, for crying out loud, just say what you mean: "Can please someone make a TLDR of that thing? In English, please?" Answer: surely the canadian journalists are hard at work to win your eye-balls for the entirety of 10 minutes it will take to read the summary. Just have a bit of patience,sometimes the material requires a bit of understanding before an article can be written. Usually it doesn't though, so you can go complain on twitter or facebook or whatever social media platform you want right now, before the analysis come to light of what that crap means.
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I did say that. Using less words than you did. And I was asking the regular who posted it, not you, so calm the gently caress down. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Dec 3, 2016 |
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That was a little rude and uncalled for. No, not much to add to answer your question, only spot read a few pages. DSLR has a thread on it though if you want to read. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30865142-Follow-the-latest-CRTC-costing-proceeding
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slidebite posted:That was a little rude and uncalled for.   kindred spirits 
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slidebite posted:Teksavvy has made the CRTC costing proceeding documents publicly available. Undoubtedly to shine a light on the incumbents desperately trying to gently caress over them as much as possible. For the record, those documents are already publicly available, it's just that a) they're not even written in legalese, they're written in costingese so almost nobody outside the industry will willingly read or understand them, and b) the CRTC's website is notoriously difficult to actually find things on even when they aren't split into like ten different processes like this one is. So Teksavvy are doing a solid consolidating them like that. Honestly right now there isn't even much to say on it, after the CRTC issued their October order that basically said "the studies you gave us are all bullshit, here are the interim rates we're setting until we can get you to do it again properly this time". The most relevant new thing is that the whole process is scheduled to take at least until next summer, between questions from CRTC staff for the incumbents, and opportunities for other people (mostly the third-party ISPs) to intervene in various ways.
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Telus hasn't been tracking my data usage on my Internet 50 for four months now. The usage constantly reads 0 GB on the account page. I am incredibly confused, but not displeased. Has this happened to anyone else? I think it happened after I turned the bridge port on on my modem...
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