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January 10th, 2006, 11:49 PM
Ok. I have rogers high speed internet. I am gonna tell you why I hate it and why I am switching to bell.
Well, you know... I saw on a website that rogers was doing things to slow down P2P downloads because their servers couldent handle it. I had been getting really slow P2P downloads and uploads, so I decided to call them. First ill explain: On a torrent with 2000 seeders and 5000 leechers, I left it on for awhile. It went really slow uploading to other people, like 5KBps. And I havnt gotten any good upload or download speeds for months. I phoned them and asked if they were capping the speed of my internet. They said that people were complaining about the slowness of downloading their e-mails from the rogers server so they "prioritize" traffic. They would make music and movie downloads slower so people can get their e-mail faster.
Well, there is one problem with that: A downloaded movie is normally 700MB or 1400MB. Now, in my e-mail inbox, I have 500 messeges. That is like 8MB. If everyone got 500 e-mails every hour constantly it still wouldent add up to close to what P2P is.
So... They are lying to me. So, we switched to Bell. Exact same price, but better service... One, they dont cap our internet speeds unfairly like rogers does. Second, there is no download limit. (Rogers has 80GB per month). Third, they have usenet newserver access. Rogers dropped theirs dec 15.
Well, you know... I saw on a website that rogers was doing things to slow down P2P downloads because their servers couldent handle it. I had been getting really slow P2P downloads and uploads, so I decided to call them. First ill explain: On a torrent with 2000 seeders and 5000 leechers, I left it on for awhile. It went really slow uploading to other people, like 5KBps. And I havnt gotten any good upload or download speeds for months. I phoned them and asked if they were capping the speed of my internet. They said that people were complaining about the slowness of downloading their e-mails from the rogers server so they "prioritize" traffic. They would make music and movie downloads slower so people can get their e-mail faster.
Well, there is one problem with that: A downloaded movie is normally 700MB or 1400MB. Now, in my e-mail inbox, I have 500 messeges. That is like 8MB. If everyone got 500 e-mails every hour constantly it still wouldent add up to close to what P2P is.
So... They are lying to me. So, we switched to Bell. Exact same price, but better service... One, they dont cap our internet speeds unfairly like rogers does. Second, there is no download limit. (Rogers has 80GB per month). Third, they have usenet newserver access. Rogers dropped theirs dec 15.