Canadian ISP's
Canadian union decries ISP bandwidth issues
It appears that some Canadian ISP's are messing around with the bandwidth. It seems they don't like the idea of people using bittorrent to download legitimate material.
The whole issue deals with the recent CBC decision to post some programs to BitTorrent and allow anybody to download and I suppose re-distribute. When that happened, some of the larger ISP's decided to slow things down.
I don't know why we are surprised, companies such as Rogers has been doing this for the past few years, they have decided "Net Neutrality" is a concept they are not interested in.
Now, they want to get more money from us. I received a very nice letter regarding my internet usage. There was a graph that demonstrates I managed to keep under the 60 GIG usage allowance two out of the three months. Now they want to sell me even nicer services.
For an extra ten dollars a month, I get 10Mbs of download speed, plus 95BG of usage allowance.
This may be a good thing, because they are going to charge anyone who goes over the usage up to $5.00 per GB. With my plan it will be $2.00 for the over use.
They are promising all sorts of methods for tracking my usage so I keep under the amount and if I can`t they will allow me to buy more.
I suppose I should not be so suspicious, after all they are simply looking out for me.
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They actually limit the amount of bandwidth that you're allowed to use per month? There are overages if you go over it?
Wow. That freaking blows.
yes, they plan to charge overage.