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Is this their new proposal? http://aegir.openmedia.ca/sites/openmedia.ca/files/BCE_TN_Re2011-77_110328.pdf Seems like they want to sell a pre-paid TB to 3rd party ISPs for $200 ($0.195 / GB).
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What the gently caress? Buying bandwidth by the bulk? Is this a joke.
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Mar 29, 2011 14:48
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Its still pretty brutal when you factor in the GAS wholesale access charge for the ISPs. Delivering 200gb to a customer, for example, would cost Teksavvy $39 over and above the GAS fees. Its just the same poo poo with a different name, with the individual customer taken out of the equation to torpedo the independent ISPs public support.
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Mar 29, 2011 14:50
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That price is more than I pay for bandwidth, and I'm not an ISP. So ya, giant ripoff. Somebody needs to smack these buggers down. I say nationalize the last miles.
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Mar 29, 2011 16:03
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I was hoping this would become an election issue. I'm sure Bell will lay low on this until after May and then quietly implement it.
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Mar 29, 2011 16:46
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Yea those prices are still dumb. I can buy bulk bandwidth at my datacenter for a quarter of that price.
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Mar 29, 2011 16:58
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Don't forget that according to Netflix, the cost of delivering transfer to residential user in Canada is under 1 penny a gigabyte (so a terabyte of transfer should be under $10).
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Mar 29, 2011 17:00
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Sprawl posted:Yea those prices are still dumb. I can buy bulk bandwidth at my datacenter for a quarter of that price. It gets dumber when you realize that Teksavvy will be paying this tax to Bell and then again to their own bandwidth provider.
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Mar 29, 2011 17:26
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Powershift posted:http://openmedia.ca/news/bell-backs-down-internet-becomes-election-issue I think it might more be a matter of they're scared of any legislation that might occur because of this that actually forces them to tie price of service to cost of provision. This is kind of like Khadaffi offering to 'retire' after a month of revolt, because he doesn't want to be tried by the ICC, e.g. a weak offer hoping to head off a righteous and hopefully inevitable punishment.
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Mar 29, 2011 20:12
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Anybody have any experience with Acanac cable serivce? Apparently it's a nightmare if you have no technical skills but that's not an issue - the cost for their 15mbps service comes out actually cheaper than Teksavvy's dry-loop 5mbps DSL per month, and they both have "unlimited" bandwidth for the time being.
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Scaramouche posted:I think it might more be a matter of they're scared of any legislation that might occur because of this that actually forces them to tie price of service to cost of provision. This is kind of like Khadaffi offering to 'retire' after a month of revolt, because he doesn't want to be tried by the ICC, e.g. a weak offer hoping to head off a righteous and hopefully inevitable punishment. And it's still lovely UBB. Only difference is now they're charging 20c/GB instead of $2. It doesn't change the fact that they want Teksavvy et al. to pay for the data twice: Once as GAS and once with UBB.
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Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushedquote:For reference, toward the end of 2010, Rustock had been responsible for as much as 47.5% of all spam, sending approximately 44.1 billion e-mails per day, according to MessageLabs stats. Evtim posted:Excellent! So they can drop all attempts to regulate the bandwidth. After all we just got 30% wider pipe, did we not?
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Mar 30, 2011 04:48
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So I finally got around to logging into my Telus (optik tv+internet) account to setup payment plans etc, and I was checking out the Usage stats. There are none, it's all 0.00 GB used for each of the time periods. Are they just not switching it on or do you have to hit the 100GB ceiling then it goes live? Or is it more of a "eh, we could turn this on one day but for now gently caress it" type of thing?
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Apr 4, 2011 20:25
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priznat posted:So I finally got around to logging into my Telus (optik tv+internet) account to setup payment plans etc, and I was checking out the Usage stats. No i don't believe that tracking has ever worked i've had the service for ~8 months now and i've definitely gone over the limit and my traffic has never gone above 0.00 gb.
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Ah that's nice. Are they like shaw was, if there is someone using a large chunk of bandwidth they call them up first rather than just applying charges automatically?
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priznat posted:Ah that's nice. Are they like shaw was, if there is someone using a large chunk of bandwidth they call them up first rather than just applying charges automatically? Yea and you have to go over 3 months before they even bother you, with shaw that is. I dont know their policy about overages and billing.
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Great, just got an email from Acanac telling me that after further investigation I can't actually get their cable service at my place. This after 20 minutes on the phone with them making entirely sure that I could and them reassuring me many times about it. Thanks Acanac! loving idiots.
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VERTiG0 posted:Great, just got an email from Acanac telling me that after further investigation I can't actually get their cable service at my place. This after 20 minutes on the phone with them making entirely sure that I could and them reassuring me many times about it. actually I just checked my area and it said yes, but months ago it said no. Are you under Cogeco? I called to check as well, but the idiot might was probably using the same checker as I was and just said "Yeah, it's available." Without knowing why I was doublechecking.
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priznat posted:So I finally got around to logging into my Telus (optik tv+internet) account to setup payment plans etc, and I was checking out the Usage stats. If you have Optik TV, you effectively have no usage cap (at least until later this year). They currently can't differentiate between TV and Internet traffic (or rather, in a way that makes it easy for tracking/billing), so they don't even bother. If you're on a regular high speed plan (with no TV), you need go a little over double your advertised usage cap before they'll contact you to slow it down a little.
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VERTiG0 posted:I'm in a Rogers area. I'm now getting set up for Teksavvy cable, which is apparently available here, though that's what Acanac told me too. I guess we'll see.
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random nickname posted:If you have Optik TV, you effectively have no usage cap (at least until later this year). Nice, are they doing upgrades to allow the differentiation later this year then? It'd probably be completely separate from that but I'm hoping they upgrade the equipment in my area so I can get the Turbo and also be able to watch/record 2 HD channels at the same time. That limitation kind of sucks  Thankfully with the time-shifted eastern channels I can usually stagger out the show recordings when they're all bunched up on one night.
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priznat posted:Nice, are they doing upgrades to allow the differentiation later this year then? It'd probably be completely separate from that but I'm hoping they upgrade the equipment in my area so I can get the Turbo and also be able to watch/record 2 HD channels at the same time. That limitation kind of sucks Ironically, it seems people worried about their usage is pushing Telus to actually develop something that can track it properly. Optik TV runs through the internet, so it's difficult for them to tell if that 5Mbp/s you're pulling at the time is internet traffic or TV traffic. Even if they upgrade the ports in your area, you might not find out about it simply because they often use the upgrades to make room for new subscribers. However, if you contact customer service or repair they could probably tell you if your line qualifies for something higher.
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Okay, so summer (effectively close as you get here in Canada  ) is almost back and I'm heading back home for work and such, might be staying a bit longer too.We live in Nothern Ontario, near Thunder Bay, and currently have Bell DSL, 5/800 as best I could always tell from our speeds (Steam at it's best could siphon about 850kpbs at 2 am, and our upload can't be the worst as I hosted some smaller games' servers a couple of times and one L4D listen server that seemed to work well enough), though these were peaks and it never usually lives up to this and has frequent drops where we have no internet for about half-hour periods, usually once a day on average. So I decided that the fact that we do have a limit (120 when I last looked, but I was last living at home in Dec. 09, I'm certain their greedy asses have changed it without notifying my parents) sucks. So I checked on TekSavvy's site and they say our phone number is good for it as best they can tell. So I'm here just to get a couple nervous points out of the way before I spring it on them to switch. A. Seeing we already have equivalent DSL service in theory, our lines should be good to handle TekSavvy's service, right? B. What are their general upkeeps like, do people who use them still get dropped periods or excessively slowed speeds at peak or other hours? C. What's the setup for this like? I myself haven't owned a home to set up my own internet yet, so what's a timeframe from start to finish and how long would we be with internet, or phone service (if we lose phone seeing it's DSL)? And what would having technician's come out cost? It's not TBay itself, and is about 4 hours from there. I just don't want my parent's first impression of them to be bad. They trust me completely with any matter involving electronics or internet, but I'd like to keep this smooth. Ninja edit: Oh also, can you get House on Netflix in canada yet? Because if that and the few other shows we watch can be seen there, I might convince them to drop satellite from Bell also, my Father watches virtually no TV and my mother only a few specific shows. StealthArcher fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Apr 8, 2011 |
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StealthArcher posted:Ninja edit: Oh also, can you get House on Netflix in canada yet? Because if that and the few other shows we watch can be seen there, I might convince them to drop satellite from Bell also, my Father watches virtually no TV and my mother only a few specific shows. "Not available"
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Martytoof posted:"Not available" Of course. :I Why can't they get anything good here again?
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CTVGlobeMedia probably. Probably not, but gently caress them anyway 
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We've got all of Mad Men, though, and apparently they don't in the States. Small comfort, but with lovely Canadian Netflix you have to take what you can get.
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Martytoof posted:CTVGlobeMedia probably. Global has the most recent House episodes up for streaming on their site.
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Null Set posted:Global has the most recent House episodes up for streaming on their site. You can also buy the season on iTunes for like $46 if they don't care about HD. ($65 I think if you do). Still less than a month of Bell ExpressVu, and that's for a whole year of episodes. And finally, depending on where you are, you can probably get Global or even GlobalHD digitally by antenna for free.
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univbee posted:You can also buy the season on iTunes for like $46 if they don't care about HD. ($65 plus overage fees for BEING A HORRIBLE LAWBREAKING DRAIN ON PURE CANADIAN SOCIETY I think if you do). You forgot the most important part.
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Netflix in Canada (and not the US) has the first season of Justified and I strongly recommend checking it out if you haven't yet! Timothy Olyphant 
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priznat posted:Netflix in Canada (and not the US) has the first season of Justified and I strongly recommend checking it out if you haven't yet! More importantly, it has all three seasons of Arrested Development.
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I've been using http://www.usvideo.org to proxy US Netflix ever since someone mentioned it in the Toronto thread. It's been two months now and it's working great. The site is really good about giving you complete instructions on whatever your equipment is, and how to set up a virtual US credit card. All together it works out to around $12/mth for me. (I paid $50 to get a year service of US Video as opposed to doing $5/mth though.) There's a free week-long trial for US Video, (and a month for US Netflix) but you're still going to have to spend a bit of money setting up an Entropay account if you don't happen to have a US credit card somehow.
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I finally got Acanac cable; it became available recently. I would rather support teksavvy but it's $15 more per month for the same thing and not available. Don't even have to wait for technicians because I'm switching from cogeco.
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Well it's nice to get all these extra ideas, but anyone have answers to my other questions? 
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teethgrinder posted:I've been using http://www.usvideo.org to proxy US Netflix ever since someone mentioned it in the Toronto thread. It's been two months now and it's working great. oh my god I can watch Hulu in Canada today is the best day
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Right, I forgot to mention it works for other services. It just sucks that Hulu Plus is an extra charge if you want to watch on PS3 or whatever. Still cheaper than building an HTPC for the service I think. I'm not going to pay for Hulu unless we somehow ever get sick of Netflix.
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teethgrinder posted:I've been using http://www.usvideo.org to proxy US Netflix ever since someone mentioned it in the Toronto thread. It's been two months now and it's working great. I've got a US VPN, so I could probably do this on my PS3 by switching to Tomato OpenVPN and using Entropay. I don't need the MLPPP firmware anymore, but OpenVPN is also more expensive than SSTP from my provider. The thing is I have $20/mo unlimited Usenet and scarcely use that VPN since my torrents are unfiltered, soooo-oooo....
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