I got around to upgrading our Internet today, which if I’m taking my over-usage charges into account may well actually reduce our monthly bill, and wow, Rogers really does deliver the speed they promise with their so-called “Ultimate” package. I’m getting pretty much 75 Mb/s downstream and 2 Mb/s upstream on the button, which is where they cap it, making me wonder the theoretical maximum. I’m sure they could easily deliver much higher upstream but they’ve probably capped it to keep P2P speeds in check, and to keep people from running servers out of their homes. I’m sure this is the fastest home connection I’ve ever had. It’s amazing when you compare it to ten years ago, or even two years ago.
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what does that sort of internet setup cost per month?
$99 cdn/month
I remember you complaining about the latency on the satellite link back-when. We’ve come a long way.
Yeah, 21ms ping is very nice… on the satellite it was almost a second of latency. That said, given the distances involved, bouncing off a satellite in high orbit, that’s unavoidable. All things considered the satellite service was quite good, for what it was.
The satellite actually had quite good upstream speed — close to 1mb/s upstream, which was as fast or faster than most DSL/Cable connections at the time. It would have been very hard to maintain BME at the time without that speed, since I was uploading a gigabyte every couple of days!
Wicked burn. lol
how much bandwidth do they allow per month? i’m not very happy with my Bell internet right now, maybe i’ll switch…
I’m not well versed in speed here, but why do they limit the upload so much for you guys? I have 31 ping, 23.5 download, and 3.3 upload. I’m just surprised that with such a nice download speed, they don’t give you a higher upload speed. Would it make that much difference to raise it a little – as in – would people run servers if they bumped it to 3 or 5 upload vs 2?
Kyle – I think with this plan it’s 250 gig, which is pretty easy to go over. They give you warnings starting at 75%, so you know when you’re getting close, and you can check on the website as well. After that it charges $0.50 per gig up to a maximum of $20 or something (I don’t remember the specifics). I’m pretty sure it’s a much better deal than Bell offers for heavy users.
HJP – Well, it all depends on what type of user you are. For example, if you’re a pirate that searches for files on Filestube/etc and then direct downloads them from Rapidshare/etc then only your download speed matters. However, if you’re using torrents, where you’re expected to maintain a 1:1 ratio between uploaded and downloaded data, then your upstream speed starts to get really important.
Since the folks at Rogers want people to use Youtube and the various HDTV-on-the-internet services, but NOT to use torrents (which are a far more popular method of piracy than direct downloads from cloud services or usenet or whatever), then capping upload speeds is a really good way to do that. It slows down the majority of pirates, but most “legitimate” users never even notice.
Nice Shannon!
But here in sweden i can get 100-200 mbit with about 10 ms ping (close to sunet) for 29 $ candaian dollars/ the first 3 month and then 73$ candaian dollars/month for the rest of time. Pretty nice deal. U can even get 500mbit-1gbit for 132$ candian dollars/month if u live in the right area. :)
TY for the explanation, I am a pretty boring internet user. I watch a bit of Youtube here and there, catch a little Hulu, and otherwise stick to my messageboards and such. I never understood torrents, let alone how they work. I feel lucky if I have time to watch a movie once a week, too busy, I need to cut back and free up some time.
Andreas, that sounds awesome, but of course Sweden, while large and rural by European standards perhaps, is tiny and population-dense in comparison to Canada… So Canada (and the US) lag behind a little when it comes to laying down infrastructure I think.
And yes, I’m a little jealous, and five years ago when it really would have saved me a lot of time, I was a LOT jealous of nations with faster connectivity!
Pulling 40 mb down and 5 mb up here… but 75 down mmmm
https://www.speedtest.net/result/1822430574.png
With Shaw (Vancouver BC) I just ran speedtest with 92.22 down, 4.49 up and a ping of 19. This is their 100Mbs package (nominal). For a few bucks more I could get on their 200Mbs package (nominal).
I feel pretty fortunate to live in an area that offers such a good hookup. Its approx $105 monthly including the basic tv package :).
Ooops, re previous, that would be their 250Mbs package…even sillier :D
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