"Rogers Advisory Panel" survey on bandwidth throttling

[hoob]

Anyone else get this survey invitation from Rogers? A whole bunch of questions about internet usage and questions about what you think about bandwidth caps, etc.

The survey claims the average internet user is at 5GB/month.

[Narci]

After moving out to Vancouver this year..I must say..SHAW has been better in terms of pricing. Service is about the same..up and down..no throttling...least not to me.

I was just looking at the prices last night.

Rogers Extreme
6.0 Mbps download
800 Kbps upload
9 email addresses
$52.95 Monthly Service Fee (plus $3.00/mth modem rental or $99.95 modem purchase plus taxes).

Shaw High-Speed Internet
5.0 Mbps download
512 Kbps upload
100 mb email space
10 email addresses
2 IP's
$38.95/month without modem rental
$43.95/month with modem rental

Shaw High-Speed Xtreme-I
10.0 Mbps download
1 Mbps upload
100 mb email space
10 email addresses
2 IP's
$48.95/month without modem rental
$53.95/month with modem rental

Now for the good stuff:

Shaw High-Speed Nitro
25.0 Mbps download
1 Mbps upload
100 mb email space
10 email addresses
2 IP's
$99.95/month without modem rental
$104.95/month with modem rental


5gb would sounds about right. It's something like 10% of the users use 80% of the bandwith. Something like that.

[vladvlad]

ha ha ha - 5 gb / month? - maybe amongst the granny crowd

If that is the case why do we need 6 mbps at $55 per month?

Multimedia is the new big thing on the Internet.
We need less throttling.
Rogers is full of BS

[whampoa]

What a bunch of BS... they are bunch of crooks and they know it. This survey is only an attempt to justify their throttling policy.

They will skew the result of this survey no matter how unpopular their new policy is.

And they will present it to CRTC if they are any investigation on their shady practices.

[jshebib]

The average Internet bandwidth usage of a typical customer in a month is 5 Gigabytes. If Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet implemented an Internet bandwidth limit of 5 Gigabytes per month, aimed at limiting excessive use of the Rogers Internet network, what is your overall reaction to this potential initiative from Rogers?

I told them I am opposed. I use 80-100 G a month, I am willing to pay but don't like being throttled or limited because I am a heavy user. I like how the questions are skewed "did you know a small number of users reduce the speed for everyone" type of questions just leads everyone to say "oh my". That's BS. My use at 2 am. isn't affecting anyone's access.

[hoob]

Yeah... In case I didn't make it clear, my answers indicated a severe displeasure at any sort of bandwidth throttling.

[LNahid2000]

The average Internet bandwidth usage of a typical customer in a month is 5 Gigabytes. If Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet implemented an Internet bandwidth limit of 5 Gigabytes per month, aimed at limiting excessive use of the Rogers Internet network, what is your overall reaction to this potential initiative from Rogers?

Just from reading that question, you know that the survey is extremely biased.

[TapemanPL]

im in toronto...but i don't think i've ever gone above 20...that already seems a lot for me...but a lot of you guys here complain that the 60 isn't enough, what are you guys doing that much bandwidth?

[Brandon]

5GB of bandwidth?

Correct me if my math is wrong, but maxing out your downstream connection results in less than 2 hours of usage each month before you hit the limit.

[Ma_Jie]

5 GB? What the hell? Let's start a petition or something and flood their techs with angry phone calls. I need my 100 GB -- and we pay an awful lot per month for that 100 GB.

- Jie

[Diamondog]

I do 350gb + per month.

[evanx]

Very poor survey.

[TrEvOrLiCioUs]

Obviously you are not average users.

The average user to them surfs the web for a few hours a day.
Does not download anything more than a few mp3s and so forth.

Rogers is trying to stop users from downloading huge files. (ie. illegal movies/software)

Ideally they want us all to be 5gb users and charge the heavy users who slow down the network downloading crap.

5gb is alot just to surf websites, emailing and a few mp3s.

[Narci]

Rogers is trying to stop users from downloading huge files. (ie. illegal movies/software).

How about legal files? I know World of Warcraft uses BT to download updates and patches.

[Diamondog]

Obviously you are not average users.

The average user to them surfs the web for a few hours a day.
Does not download anything more than a few mp3s and so forth.

Rogers is trying to stop users from downloading huge files. (ie. illegal movies/software)

Ideally they want us all to be 5gb users and charge the heavy users who slow down the network downloading crap.

5gb is alot just to surf websites, emailing and a few mp3s.

Thats just nonsense there are tons of ways to rack up bandwidth legally.