The Internet - WikipediaAfter many years as a “Loyal Rogers Cable Customer”; having taken on the chin, their on-going price increases, service decreases, and more recently, the crowning touch; a 60 gig/month download cap. This 60 gig cap is Rogers way of protecting their jealously guarded movie empire. In the future, as TV and Cable and Internet technologies merge, more and more movies are going to be available on line. Since a full length DVD movie will use most if not all of the 60 gigs, Rogers needs to charge for it or lose one of its largest revenue sources – movies. Go over the cap and pay $2/gig up to an extra $25/month. A sneaky way to put the price up.
Rogers would like you to think that they and Bell have a monopoly and can charge whatever they want. We are switching to a DSL line. DSL Internet comes in on the phone lines similar to Bell, but is provided by a smaller, more competitive provider. Since de-regulation, years ago, Bell can do nothing to stop this new competition. Check out the one we’ll be using. It’s a smaller DSL service provider in Chatham, Ontario. (DSL Basic Internet Unlimited $24.95) There are hundreds like this in every country.
Rogers also admits to “traffic shaping” which throttles back the speed on things it decides it doesn’t want you to do (like movies) and drives up costs for some features. In fairness to Rogers, when use is continuous, as for file sharing or Internet radio or streaming video like YouTube, a few users who use the connection at high rates for hours at a time may seriously impair the service of others. Rogers’ problem is that the concept is more relevant in cable internet where both the core network and the access network are shared, than in DSL where the core network is shared but the access network is not.
This new DSL service will hopefully allow us better service, unlimited downloading and the restoration of the newsgroups (which Rogers unceremoniously discontinued a year or two ago). The new service should provide equivalent speed and will cost about half what we pay to Rogers. (not even counting the 60+ gig cap $25 extra) Plus you can buy the modem (I found mine on-line for $49.99) instead of being forced to pay Rogers $3 a month forever. Better service at less than half the price – what are you waiting for?
All this means our email address must change. Since there is a 30 day notice period to Rogers, the old email will overlap with the new one for the next month, terminating November 23. The blog will remain at www.timandwen.blogspot.com
Rogers would like you to think that they and Bell have a monopoly and can charge whatever they want. We are switching to a DSL line. DSL Internet comes in on the phone lines similar to Bell, but is provided by a smaller, more competitive provider. Since de-regulation, years ago, Bell can do nothing to stop this new competition. Check out the one we’ll be using. It’s a smaller DSL service provider in Chatham, Ontario. (DSL Basic Internet Unlimited $24.95) There are hundreds like this in every country.
Rogers also admits to “traffic shaping” which throttles back the speed on things it decides it doesn’t want you to do (like movies) and drives up costs for some features. In fairness to Rogers, when use is continuous, as for file sharing or Internet radio or streaming video like YouTube, a few users who use the connection at high rates for hours at a time may seriously impair the service of others. Rogers’ problem is that the concept is more relevant in cable internet where both the core network and the access network are shared, than in DSL where the core network is shared but the access network is not.
This new DSL service will hopefully allow us better service, unlimited downloading and the restoration of the newsgroups (which Rogers unceremoniously discontinued a year or two ago). The new service should provide equivalent speed and will cost about half what we pay to Rogers. (not even counting the 60+ gig cap $25 extra) Plus you can buy the modem (I found mine on-line for $49.99) instead of being forced to pay Rogers $3 a month forever. Better service at less than half the price – what are you waiting for?
All this means our email address must change. Since there is a 30 day notice period to Rogers, the old email will overlap with the new one for the next month, terminating November 23. The blog will remain at www.timandwen.blogspot.com
To limit SPAM, I don't want to publish it on the Web but our new email address will be sent to everyone in my address book in the next few days.
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You should get a gmail account and then forward it to your teksavvy address. I did away with ISP specific email addresses years ago due to the fact that I was never going to be loyal to any one provider (although it turns out that I've been a loyal Rogers customer for almost 10 years)
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