Rogers Cable to limit bandwidth

Thats full of sh!t. take that up your yuppie ass and smoke it..

rogers is definitely slow capping waaaay before the 60gig/month, thats just their absolute cutoff point. that should be cleared up for everyone.

also, rogers is not resetting their connections at the beginning of the month anymore, unless this september (the back to school month) is effecting things.

i very rarely use p2p file sharing stuff or any outrageous bandwidth hogging computer games, yet i notice capping (others may not notice).

Obviously you are very out dated on the whole issue. 1GB per movie? 15000 songs for 60GBs? Although I can’t deny some ppl out there are just like a collector who collects every shit they encountered on the web. But for many ppl, they now download foreign movies that never going to be shown on big screen here and foreign musics that they never would heard of. And they want to sample those musics with good quality too. Do you know a mp3 with 320kbps is about 10mb each, and I am not talking about those crazy hi-fi standard lossless format. A decent movie should be 4gb after ripping.

And also some peole they download foreign HDTV stream files which is about 10GB for an hour show. And those are not fake HDTV (720p) the US claims, I am talking about the real HDTV (with rez 1920x1080, almost 3 times the qulity of DVD). You think 60GB is a lot? It looks a lot to you only because you haven’t understand what internet can do to you. I have been exposed to many diff new kind of musics and TV shows that I never heard of. And I am not an animation fan who crave every single animation produced from Japan like those otaku losers. I get to know many cool musicians like X-Japan (Japan), Infected Mushroom (Israel), Pakorn Lam (Thailand), etc etc. Stop being a slave of the corporations who try to fool you into using the internet just for email and newspaper or shopping. You can always stick to a 56K modem if you are only using the internet to do those petty things. It saves your money too in that case. I stop my rant now, kthxbye.

I wonder whether this actually reduces bandwidth. I know that as I get close to the month end I check to see how much I have left and consider what I might want and download things just in case I need the bandwidth next month.

I do feel Rogers advertising is deliberately deceptive as outlined on the attached link.

To add to the 60 gb a month limit. If you do like p2p you will not like rogers any more. They are using new hardware to filter your favorite p2p applications. Mine are useless now.It’s called traffic shaping.Search google for rogers traffic shaping for details. What do you need a 3mbs line for,surf the net, download some crappy DRM itunes or some windows updates. I know I don’t it’s just a waste of money. I would get the same results with just a basic/lite connection. They are trying to free up bandwidth to embrace this VOIP. Signing up new customers at the same time pissing others off.The switch is on

I am a gamer. I go to school for game development. I come home, play online games with my friends and do homework. I just signed up for Rogers and am doing some research.

From my own measurement, one night of gaming is about 1.7 GB of data transfer (d/l + u/l). This includes using Ventrilo (headset) for some of the period, playing in a 40-person raid on World of Warcraft, and some DotA games in Warcraft 3, over a time of 8 hours.
Doing this daily (as is my lifestyle) comes to 51 GB per month. That’s not too bad. Note that this is regular use without any legal/illegal downloading.

With my usual downloading of animé (which, by the way, is the only way to get it here in North America and is perfectly legal as long as it’s unlicensed), adds 5-30 GB. So, I feel a little restricted.

However, if it’s true that they slow you down way before 60 GB, then that pisses me off. Do you know how frustrating it is when you are trying to heal your friend, a 1.5 second cast time and it takes 10 seconds instead because you’re lagging? (And then the spell fails because your friend is already dead.)

A gamer’s perspective. That’s it.

Rogers are crooks. My family and I have many rogers services including multiple cellular phones and pagers, digital and otherwise cable, landline telephones, my father’s office as well. And the cable… ‘high speed’. They disconnected us once for my ‘excessive bandwidth’ so I called them and asked them what exactly my bandwidth was, they told me there were no concrete numbers but merely that my bandwidth was ‘excessive’ as deemed by them. ie. there was no proof

I pay them for a ‘high speed’ internet connection, not whatever slow speed they deem acceptable. If they can not support modern bandwidths, they need to upgrade their services, simple. I am switching to sympatico soon as I am fed up with 1kb/s downloads. I download foreign films, difficult to obtain music, various media of legitimate reasons. I also play online games more nights than not. Rogers makes both impossible under the premise that I am ‘hogging’ bandwidth. But I don’t pay $45 a month to browse web pages, I pay that money, and it is dear money, to use the internet as I choose, and Rogers is making it impossible to do so

These caps are brazen move to customers. They are so vain in their business that they could comeup with idea of charging 50 bucks for dial-up, as far as they care.

This is god-damn-CABLE connection heeeyy!!!
unlimited bandwith. Who cares who downloads 100 or 500 gb month? How is it possible that Bell have no caps?!

What improvements Rogers brought to customers during past 10 years in that business? Almost none. It is a petty excuse for useless executives that don’t know how to save money to their boss in other way.

Shame on Rogers and everything they do.

(I used to be their devoted customers until they started with these “improvements”) Never again!

60/4 = 15 Movies you yupie fuk. U think i download divx shit? Its DVD Mothafouukaaaa

that is the more stupid shit anyone wrote about the hall caps thing, the costumer PAYS FOR UNLIMITED BANDWITH, yes thats right PAY MONEY, so I DONT CARE IF THE CEO CANT AFFORD A NEW HOUSE AT ROGERS y pay and i want the service i pay for, what i do or dont with it its MY BUSINESS its a legal matter nothing else.

Given that Rogers is the only one in town that offers the “capping service” and bandwidth restrictions - this should be clearly stated in their advertising. This is not 1984 - the Internet has made doublespeak nothing more than idle corporate chatter. We have all learned to trust the deceptive marketing of corporate Goliaths such as Rogers like we trust a new dll.

It will be only a matter of time before more competitors of Rogers will follow suite - but when they do, the cap/restriction level will be a comparative feature to those shopping for service.

In the mean time its drop the rogers cell phone plan, by a FTA receiver for tv and get an adsl connection from a 3rd party provider. - ADSL is deregulated and there is competition.

Hey CRTC where are you - regulate this cable monopoly.

60GB is not enough for me. An average DVD on bittorrent is 4GB. (Thats 8GB total bandwidth when you seed it back)

so 60/8= 7movies/month =NOT ENOUGH

Bell provides only 2 Gb. Compare.

It’s the 20/80 rule, 20% of your customer use 80% of the bandwith… so they lose 20% of their customer and reduce 80% of bandwith (not going to happen but hey, that probably what they are thinking).

I just found out about the 60GB cap, and from the messages it’s been in place for a year…. all I know is I’ve used rogers since 2002 and every year it gets slower and slower. Now I am worried that I’ll get a bill for 1.25 per GB over the limit. GREAT!! thanks for informing me, and I had to hit the compare services to see that the cap was there. The cap is not mentioned any were else!

That is deciving the customer, chances are that rogers is waiting to instate the $1.25 per GB just to nail you IF you leave or to use as a reason to tick you off or grab more money. Common, just let the cutomer know when you change the rules!!!

I want to download my personal DVD movies onto my hard drive.

I purchased a Rogers ULTRA High Speed modem three days before Rogers announced they were capping their service to the 60 gig limit. This modem was designed to give the user who wanted to pay even MORE money than the average user so they could upload and download and use more bandwidth. I was willing to pay this fee for the service. For the two days that I had the modem and the Ultra High Speed service it was wonderful and I could download large files in a very short period of time.

My point here is simple. Most computer users out there (about 80%) of the base of users who have signed up for High Speed don’t need high speed. Dial up at 56k would suit them perfectly. But they fell into the trap of the “Faster is Better” advertising that Rogers and Sympatico push in our faces nightly on TV.

Consequently Rogers is taking that 80% populations money for nothing, and making the users who actually use the bandwidth pay with restrictions. Internet content is getting more and more bloated, but for people who need information like movies (4gigs each) and Audiobooks which can range as high as 700-900megs or even online streaming of CNN news coverage, that 60 gigs doesn’t last long.

The fact that Rogers sold this High Speed service the way they did, is fraudulent, what part of UNLIMITED don’t they understand. If someone is going to put limits on something then don’t advertise it to be TOTALLY open ended and unrestricted.

Jeff Rogers

“So what does this mean if you’re a bandwidth hog? It means that you’ll only be able to [STEAL] download about 60 Hollywood films each month or 15,000 songs”

making the assumtion that all large downloading is stealing … an offensive implication

Your article claims if you use alot of bandwidth:
1) your probably a thief
2) you have no life because your need to store everything you stole
2) Rogers is helping you??? by limiting you. (You forgot to mention that there is no price break on Rogers end and they can change the rules whenever they want).

Get your head out of your ass!

Give me a break >.> I work a hard labour job and pay my bills, when I get home i dont want to do Anything except relax and unwind.. So i play videogames, watch anime and various movies.. listen to the umpteen thousand songs and artists, whom dont release their albums in the small town i live (for the most part). 60gb? i could burn that in 2 or 3 days easily. couple gamign sessions after work and one of my days off.. and 2 or 3 films and some anime.. Oh and since a wireless setup is impossible in my house (don’t ask.. poor signal transmition) I’m paying the rogers ‘High Speed’ bill twice.. so about 100+ $ a month for their Limited Unlimited service. Makes me sick.

This person clearly is out of date. A few HD Movies, 320kbs songs, and a few hundred journal articles/data sets = 60 gig easy. Best of all, that’s just download.

Best of all, perhaps the person lacks basic math skills, but 60/2 = 30. Typically, those who download also have to upload - for w.e it is.

we’ll i download like crazy and i don’t crack 60 movies a month, then again, i actually watch the movies i download.

Bandwidth usage is not only what you download. Everytime you visit a website, send an email…basically every single time you use your Internet for anything, you are using up bandwidth. Most download software goes both ways, too…so when you’re downloading music or movies, people are also uploading music and movies from you, which uses up bandwidth. So 60 GB may seem like a lot, but it really isn’t.

LMAO.
I read this. I died a little inside.
It surprises me to see someone, who obviously knows how to use the internet, and yet not KNOW how to use the internet.
Epik Phail.

LOL…they can suck my BALLS
!!!

rogers has no testicals, bunch of pussys

Can anyone recommend an alternative so we can all switch?

Rogers, they are really pushing it with this, charing 25 bucks if you go over a gig. bullshit. I’m going with aliant.

and you think losing a customer, is just drop of water… my bill is like 99 bucks
a month. for all

no? 100 that’s 1,200 a year.

say they lose 50 costomers because of this they would lose 60000 a year.

1000 people…. they would lose

1200000 a year.

speak up people!

go with aliant, and they’ll drop this bullshit like a bad habbit.

rogers sucks

Wow, thats like 2 gigs a day and 3 ppl in my family use the internet, so thats like 700 mb per day for me………….. bs

I recently signed up for Rogers Ultra High Speed, I was not told about a cap, 4 days after I got the message I was at 75% of my 60gigs, I thought this was nuts, I have to kids that play online games, I do download a movie, mostly old stuff, none the less I was not informed before hand and am in a contract, talk about legal, dishonest or the many other things you can call it, the worst thing is I combined all my services to a company I once thought was reputable, as a consumer it makes me think trust who? Not Rogers….

Ummm NO. What you’re saying isn’t true.

It doesn’t have to be literal downloading to make up that 60gb. It’s like EVERYTHING. emails, youtube/veoh online videos, online streaming of songs, etc. etc. Like… EVERYTHING.

60 gb is WAY too little. Especially when it’s a family sharing the internet. Gawwwwd I’m so pissed off with this limit!!! I already reached it half way through this month!!

I regularly go over 60G a month and I hardly consider myself a hog. In a month, I download maybe 5-6 movies (legal, of course), ~100-200 free MP3’s and some random porn. This accounts roughly for 30G. The rest is just streaming, podcasts and various updates. If my household had more than 1 person, I would be in trouble with this new limit.

rogers is greedy as hell

rogers stock price has soared

they have a monopoly and are charging monopoly prices and getting away with it

a person can easily use over 100 gigs a month with todays net.

canada must regulate rogers and bell canada

the only 2 providers

I USE 200 GIGS A MONTH

I AM ON THE NET WEBBING / DOWNLOADING / WATCHING VIDEOS ALL DAY

WHY DOES ROGERS NEED TO CHARGE MORE?

IS IT GREED?

ha so rogers is doing us a favour… you must be one of those idiots that likes to get riped off… sympatico here i come.