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ToxicFrog posted:Wait, cable 120? Where are you? For me they only list 100/10 and 250/20, nothing in between. If i had to guess, i'd say montreal.
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I'm starting to think their automated texts aren't actually written by a teenager.
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Mar 20, 2017 19:39
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The new CRTC chair is a former Telus lobbyist. It's all over.
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Jul 19, 2017 00:59
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Yeah, because if they really screw something up, they can just dig a hole, push the town into it, cover it over, and move on to the next one.
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Aug 7, 2017 09:31
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Let me be the first to welcome you back to the 20th century. If you can get gigabit in the building you live in it's going to be $150/month through Bell or Videotron who are both garbage companies who hate you. If you can get TekSavvy that's probably the way to go but you'll still be at the mercy of Bell or Videotron to connect it, and again, they're garbage companies who hate you. They'll hate you a little more if you aren't paying them directly, but your money will still be feeding them and you'll still be at the mercy of their on-site techs. Still expect absolutely nothing for $50/month and decent internet for $100/month because prices are still dictated by Bell or Videotron, again, garbage companies who hate you.
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Oct 10, 2017 03:20
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The incumbent TV providers own all the Canadian TV networks which hold exclusive distribution rights for most programming. A lot of the tv streaming services still require a subscription to the cable channel. There is no legal way to watch most new broadcast TV online without having a cable TV subscription, and giving money to Bell, Telus, Rogers, or Shaw. If you want to watch game of thrones legally, you have to pay for a cable/fiber TV subscription, $40/month and the movie network(owned by bell), $20 a month. or buy episodes on a service like itunes, $180 for the 7 seasons so far. Or you can do what everybody else in the country does and get one of those android boxes off kijiji and pretend you don't know how all the tv shows come into the house for free.
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Oct 16, 2017 21:45
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infernal machines posted:Do you not get Netflix west of Ontario? No, we only get Canadian Netflix. He's probably got most of what's on there on VHS already.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:32
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Mister Facetious posted:Heh, you think Netflix is full of old poo poo? Yeah, but with Amazon Prime, you also get free shipping on items that are inexplicably twice the price of Amazon US.
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Oct 17, 2017 00:01
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Coxswain Balls posted:You've probably tried it already, but how is OTA television where you live? I only get Global and CBC English/French in my building, but that's still not too shabby for a $20 antenna. I don't use it all that much since I get every channel and Netflix/Crave through work, but the nerd in me likes being able to pull video signals from thin air. I don't think they even have FM radio stations where he lives. quote:I was thinking along the lines of guys like these Their base package seems to be the same as robellus. Googling them it seeems they did the skeezy android box thing before bell asked the CRTC to shut them down, i would imagine that has something to do with it. Powershift fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 02:40
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8ender posted:My favourite is Product Z exists but is not 2.5 times the price, but 9 times the price asking for $315 for a set of $35 bluetooth earbuds. You wonder if it's a pricing error but you keep seeing inflated prices from third party sellers all over the site, over and over again. or $60 for an $8 oil filter.  left is canadian, right is US the $8 canadian option has $25 shipping from kentucky. The Us listing has a $9.33 prime option. How about oil  Almost 4 times the price, but free shipping! Or 6 times the price buying in bulk! So what is a $95 oil change off amazon.com is $329.56 off amazon.ca, if you have prime. It seems outside of the super mainstream stuff, the bulk of amazon.ca listings are american companies, shipping from the US that just double the price, then apply the exchange rate. It's just some dude near the border who orders it off amazon.com as soon as you order it from him on amazon.ca and ships it to you once it has been shipped to him. There are no good canadian online shopping options, the majority of people polled still say they perfer B&M shopping, yet retail is dying out. Maybe housing costs being over 50% of income where the majority of the population lives is causing a problem?
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Oct 23, 2017 07:28
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Diminishing returns certainly has a lot to do with it. A computer from 2001 wouldn't be relevant in 2009, a computer from 2009 can still be relevant in 2017. My laptop is already 8 years old and will easily see 10 years of regular use. There's no way you could say that about a laptop from 1999 or 2001 in 2009.
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Nov 16, 2017 21:47
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EngineerJoe posted:I don't think they're legally allowed to do this any more? What are you going to do, complain to their lobbyist?
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Nov 21, 2017 05:07
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Dasani whistleblower confirms water is wet.
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Nov 21, 2017 05:49
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Evis posted:I’m not sure the government would allow that. *passes a big bag of What about now?
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Feb 1, 2018 23:04
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Evis posted:Now I think it’s what’s best for Canadians. A merger would help the middle class and those trying to join the middle class.
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Feb 1, 2018 23:30
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Frank Dillinger posted:Are there any good promos on Telus for new fibre areas? Telus dropped a letter in my mailbox saying they’d be doing the hookup soon If you sign a 2 year contract, they'll lube up before going in, instead of going in dry. Also, they won't raise prices until month 13 of your contract, then allow you to go back to the old price for 6 months if you extend the contract by 3 years.
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Mar 11, 2018 18:09
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Maybe we can ask their lobbyist in charge of the CRTC to look into it, and he can tell us to gently caress off again 
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Mar 12, 2018 15:40
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It's a shame the middle class and those trying hard to join the middle class are so unclear about what they expect out of the telcos. If they could reach a consensus, the government could do something about the issue, but alas, the people just can't agree. I would imagine the divide is perfectly along party lines, with Liberals wanting to give them the guillotine, and Conservatives wanting to send them to the gallows, but with no clear way forward, we just can't do anything 
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Mar 12, 2018 18:59
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Bob NewSCART posted:Why is the CRTC so loving trash? Because they answer only to our politicians who would sell you for spare parts for $1,500.
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Mar 29, 2018 18:48
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Ensign Expendable posted:I got an ad from Rogers offering gigabit internet. The fine print says up to 500 Mbps. What kind of Hollywood math is this? The joys of regulatory capture. What are you gonna do.
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Jul 7, 2018 01:07
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I just got shaw's 300mbit, Telus still doesn't offer anything over 50mbit here. I've seen 45MB/s off steam. I'm so glad i don't have to wait 20 minutes for games to download anymore. Also, considering the resources my moderately powerful computer uses in utilizing 300mbit, i really wonder if the average person would actually see the benefit at this point. If i don't pause Avast protections, it bumps up against the limits of a 7200rpm 4tb drive and 4.6ghz 2500k.
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Aug 18, 2018 16:44
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priznat posted:I scheduled an upgrade to the 300Mbps because fuckit. It was $5 a mo more than 150. Also like how they have moved the plans to unlimited although they didn’t charge for overages anyway iirc. We got it for $5 less than 150($105 vs $110), and got the cable package knocked back to peanuts at the same time. I think we're under $140 now for 300 + medium TV + 8 theme packs.
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Aug 18, 2018 21:40
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About fuckin time. It took almost 20 minutes to download AC: Odyssey the other night, which is complete bullshit. Who's got that kind of time to wait around?
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Nov 29, 2018 21:01
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8ender posted:You're not wrong but as a kid who grew up with 56k modems I want to shake my cane at you so hard I remember pirating games with netpumper on rural 56k and i had to leave it going for like 8 fuckin days. We had extra lines installed so we could use the internet at the same time as the phone, and at night i would run a phone cable from the kitchen use 2 lines so i could download at full speed on the computer and still browse the internet on my dreamcast 
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Nov 30, 2018 21:54
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I remember one year wondering how anybody could fill a 2gb hard drive, and the next begging my parents for a 40gb maxtor for christmas. these days i'm pissed because i paid $100 a piece for 3tb hard drives like 6 years ago and i probably couldn't replace them for that. Still, repeating a sentiment i made a few pages ago, with an antivirus running and an SSD, my fairly respectable system can't even really keep up with 300mbps, i can't imagine how the average person will see any benefit.
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Dec 1, 2018 08:08
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Looks like Shaw has doubled the speed on schedule. Just power-cycled my modem, and Speedtest was giving me 340 down.  I guess it's okay e: upped to 50 connections, still okay.  Can still only get around 50MB/s off steam which is bullshit Powershift fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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Dec 3, 2018 19:45
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Anybody else looking to upgrade right now, AMD has new CPUs and video cards coming out within a few months. The ryzen 3xxx series is looking to be a pretty big upgrade, and the 5700 cards should be the bang for the buck king. With new consoles coming out in the next year or two with similar hardware, it seems like a safe path to take.
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May 30, 2019 22:50
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codo27 posted:This is the internet access thread. Why do you share your AMD propaganda here because people were discussing new PCs, I would be sharing intel's progress too, if they ever made any
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May 31, 2019 00:32
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So how are robellus gonna gently caress us now that they aren't charging $7 for caller Id and 5 cents a megabyte?
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Mister Facetious posted:"The cartel uh... the cartel, finds a way." That's just it, they're being nice by offering us what the rest of the world has at only 5 times the price. What are they cooking up to gently caress us with? they're waiting around the corner and they're going to hit us in the face with something, but what is it?
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