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Vintersorg posted:Some mother fucker on FB, "well their plans are expensive because people make more in ontario." I've been told this is the same reason video games in Australia are AUD $100+, despite currency parity with the United States for the last while.
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That explains games being $80+ in Canada; our dollar is... oh right it's worth less! So it's just because America. Gotcha.
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May 2, 2016 21:11
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The exchange rate is CAD $1.25 per USD. The base price for a game in America is $60. We're actually paying above what the exchange rate would indicate (33% more). We're just easy to gently caress. 
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May 2, 2016 21:13
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Mister Macys posted:The exchange rate is CAD $1.25 per USD. If what we pay for internet access is any indication of this; we also absolutely love it.
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May 2, 2016 21:17
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Now I'm paranoid that Shaw is gearing up for a Rogers sale/merger. No way Rogers lets Bell reach farther west than them.
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May 3, 2016 06:31
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Remember it used to be Shaw in the east, and Rogers in the west. For some reason they agreed they'd both be better off by swapping territories, and now we have Shaw in the west and Rogers in the east. (Maybe Rogers knew they'd have better collusion opportunities with Bell?  )
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May 3, 2016 07:28
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Don't forget McLean Hunter!
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DariusLikewise posted:Now I'm paranoid that Shaw is gearing up for a Rogers sale/merger. No way Rogers lets Bell reach farther west than them. Rogers might not have the cash for that right now.
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May 3, 2016 22:06
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sbaldrick posted:Rogers might not have the cash for that right now. We can only hope that poor viewership from hockey continues to plummet for Rogers.
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May 4, 2016 02:27
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And the Jays sucking. gently caress them and their NHL exclusivity. I was seriously considering a Gamecenter sub until the day they bought it out. #NeverRogers etc., etc..
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May 4, 2016 02:40
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Mister Macys posted:The exchange rate is CAD $1.25 per USD. We also have a tax base that supports universal healthcare and other social welfare policies. We get taken advantage of* but not all of the higher price is pure profit taking. * We also protect our distributors and wholesalers from competition much more strongly than the U.S. does, though this is turning into net bad, not a net good, as the system fails to adapt to technology changes.
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May 4, 2016 02:54
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I never said anything about taxes, I was talking about the base MSRP. Also there's no trade tariff for games. Then there's the fact that games were the same price during currency parity up until 2012/13 or so... Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 4, 2016 |
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May 4, 2016 03:07
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Mister Macys posted:I never said anything about taxes, I was talking about the base MSRP. Also there's no trade tariff for games. Even then it took forever for the price tag to match the exchange rate. But welp, once the dollar started tanking downwards, they were already changing well before it actually reached that level.
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This was one of the reasons I bailed on my iPhone for Android. I'm all for paying a proper exchange rate, that just makes sense. But when the dollar drops 10 cents below par and you raise app prices by 29 cents to accommodate, it's just full on gouging. poo poo like that pisses me off. In the end it almost did reach a 29 cent difference, but at the time they didn't know it would and I had already bailed by then. I haven't pirated a game in years thanks to Steam, but recent price trends make me consider it again.
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yellowcar posted:We can only hope that poor viewership from hockey continues to plummet for Rogers. it will.
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May 5, 2016 03:46
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I want Rogers to lose so much money due to their NHL rights, they're probably the single biggest reason I am less invested in the game this season. God HNIC is awful now.
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May 5, 2016 03:58
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So, in case you haven't heard, The Government has denied Bells' appeal of the CRTCs decision to allow 3rd parties FTTH. Even though it was Bells appeal, you can bet the big oligopoly incumbents were salivating at the thought of them succeeding.
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May 12, 2016 00:39
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I don't even really know what that means just glad bell lost, gently caress bell
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May 12, 2016 01:05
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It would have effectively blocked resellers from offering fiber to the home to their customers over Bell infrastructure. That'd be really bad.
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The appeal was pretty desperate in the first place. As if the Liberal government was going to eliminate a industry regulation that the Conservative government thought was necessary.
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May 13, 2016 16:22
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any ideas what bell might be doing in the middle of old north in london? the last two or three days i've see bell working across the street. once up the pole, another down underground. they went around trying to sell fibe bs a while back, but that was months ago.
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May 14, 2016 03:40
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Some guy claiming to be from Bell was going door-to-door here the other day, Blackfriars area in London. He was persistent, even in the face of my housemate's aggressive disinterest, but she managed to run him off before he could explain what he was trying to sell.
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Bieeardo posted:Some guy claiming to be from Bell was going door-to-door here the other day, Blackfriars area in London. He was persistent, even in the face of my housemate's aggressive disinterest, but she managed to run him off before he could explain what he was trying to sell. Yeah they were pretty aggressive when they came here, asking about our problems with Rogers (basically nonexistent aside from moral dilemmas) "well that's not what your neighbors are telling me." I told him that either they were lying or he was. He got flustered for a bit and started about free. I responded positively until he admitted they weren't doing real fiber, at which point I shut the door. Definitely not a bad pleasant experience.
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May 14, 2016 14:52
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Has anyone tried Naked ADSL https://www.nakedadsl.ca/? Is there some trick to signing up with them? I signed up online and haven't heard anything from them in 3 weeks. I tried using the contact form on their site to ask about it last week and they still haven't got back to me.
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May 15, 2016 15:42
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ComputerNinja posted:Has anyone tried Naked ADSL https://www.nakedadsl.ca/? Is there some trick to signing up with them? I signed up online and haven't heard anything from them in 3 weeks. I tried using the contact form on their site to ask about it last week and they still haven't got back to me. No but you gotta wonder how good the service and support is gonna be if it's this much trouble.
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May 15, 2016 15:45
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My wifi with Shaw drops out a lot and is generally slow. Can I fix that by turning my modem into a bridge and using a real router for wifi?
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TheOtherContraGuy posted:My wifi with Shaw drops out a lot and is generally slow. Can I fix that by turning my modem into a bridge and using a real router for wifi? Which modem and Internet plan do you have? The dual band modems can only be bridged with the 120Mbps plans, but if you have one on a lower speed plan you can swap it out for a single band WiFi modem that can be bridged.
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May 15, 2016 18:22
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FWIW, I have my connection through shaw on a bridged modem because I had the exact same issue. Night and day improvement.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Which modem and Internet plan do you have? The dual band modems can only be bridged with the 120Mbps plans, but if you have one on a lower speed plan you can swap it out for a single band WiFi modem that can be bridged. It's a Cisco dpc3825. I have a router from my old place do I'm going to try it.
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TheOtherContraGuy posted:It's a Cisco dpc3825. I have a router from my old place do I'm going to try it. That one's definitely bridgable except in a few edge case scenarios, and even then there's a workaround to do so. If you give Shaw a call they should be able to give you a hand with that.
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Frank Dillinger posted:FWIW, I have my connection through shaw on a bridged modem because I had the exact same issue. Night and day improvement. Yeah, when I was still with Rogers, the first thing I did was internet sleuthing to turn off the poo poo Wi-Fi/routing their supplied modem had.
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mediaphage posted:Yeah they were pretty aggressive when they came here, asking about our problems with Rogers (basically nonexistent aside from moral dilemmas) "well that's not what your neighbors are telling me." I told him that either they were lying or he was. He got flustered for a bit and started about free. I responded positively until he admitted they weren't doing real fiber, at which point I shut the door. Definitely not a bad pleasant experience. I am used to that with electric and gas salespeople, but that poo poo technique is migrating to mainstream ISP now too? It amazes me they think door to door aggressive salespeople is a good idea in this day and age. I expect it from lovely re-sellers of utilities, home alarm sellers or water filtration people, but jesus christ. That's slimy as gently caress hoping to get someone that doesn't like confrontation or a senior. 
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slidebite posted:I am used to that with electric and gas salespeople, but that poo poo technique is migrating to mainstream ISP now too? It amazes me they think door to door aggressive salespeople is a good idea in this day and age. I expect it from lovely re-sellers of utilities, home alarm sellers or water filtration people, but jesus christ. That's slimy as gently caress hoping to get someone that doesn't like confrontation or a senior. I reread that quote and realize phone posting makes me sound pretty out of it. But yeah and it seems pretty common. Really annoying, all the lies.
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slidebite posted:I am used to that with electric and gas salespeople, but that poo poo technique is migrating to mainstream ISP now too? It amazes me they think door to door aggressive salespeople is a good idea in this day and age. I expect it from lovely re-sellers of utilities, home alarm sellers or water filtration people, but jesus christ. That's slimy as gently caress hoping to get someone that doesn't like confrontation or a senior. A while back my grandparents let in a Telus sales rep in while I was at their place fixing their computer. He tried to convince us we weren't getting the full speed from Shaw by running speedtest.net on his phone, which was connected to Telus 4G and not my grandparent's WiFi. When I called him out on that he claimed it didn't matter because of how close his phone is to the Shaw modem. If I wasn't there my granparents might've fallen for it.
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Hungry Computer posted:A while back my grandparents let in a Telus sales rep in while I was at their place fixing their computer. He tried to convince us we weren't getting the full speed from Shaw by running speedtest.net on his phone, which was connected to Telus 4G and not my grandparent's WiFi. When I called him out on that he claimed it didn't matter because of how close his phone is to the Shaw modem. If I wasn't there my granparents might've fallen for it. I had a Telus rep come to my door and tell me that Telus can't offer more than 150Mbps over fiber because the CRTC won't let them.
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Hungry Computer posted:A while back my grandparents let in a Telus sales rep in while I was at their place fixing their computer. He tried to convince us we weren't getting the full speed from Shaw by running speedtest.net on his phone, which was connected to Telus 4G and not my grandparent's WiFi. When I called him out on that he claimed it didn't matter because of how close his phone is to the Shaw modem. If I wasn't there my granparents might've fallen for it. Evis posted:I had a Telus rep come to my door and tell me that Telus can't offer more than 150Mbps over fiber because the CRTC won't let them. man, it makes me so irrationally angry that this poo poo never has consequences.
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So if anyone is considering going to Teksavvy out west, it might be a decent time. http://teksavvy.com/west-is-best-ab-hp-en Ontario/Quebec has a deal too but I think it's just waiving the activation fee or something.
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slidebite posted:So if anyone is considering going to Teksavvy out west, it might be a decent time. I hate that you have no idea what their actual prices are. Sure $44 a month for DSL 25 is great but then throw on another 7-27 dollars for dry loop, and suddenly a great deal is more than I'm paying now. Is there any way to get an actual price from them?
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Don't forget you'll have to buy a modem outright unless you already own one that supports the service you want, so tack on another $80+ upfront.
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Demon_Corsair posted:I hate that you have no idea what their actual prices are. Sure $44 a month for DSL 25 is great but then throw on another 7-27 dollars for dry loop, and suddenly a great deal is more than I'm paying now. Is there any way to get an actual price from them? I think I called them, told them my address, and they told me what loop I was in.
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