The problem is that in certain areas Bell is throttling their wholesale customers as well, which applies to Teksavvy. I know that during the day at my Toronto apartment torrents are throttled to around 15-16KB/s. Also if anyone is using torrents on my network it severely degrades the quality of certain VoIP software. A problem that I ceased to have after I switched to a rogers service with a similar speed profile.
I do have to say though, that I regret my decision to leave Teksavvy. They provided an amazing customer service experience and outstanding support. Their prices are the best in the city and their bandwidth caps are by far the most liberal. As soon as Bell stops their ridiculous DPI traffic shaping, I will be back to Teksavvy instantly.
Consequently they'll lose my business. I'm currently with Teksavvy and the pricing/service is excellent. Best I've ever recieved. I've used Rogers and Bell in the past and paid easily three times as much for the bandwidth I've used. Teksavvy also has an extremely helpful set of tech support staff and maintains an open dialog with their customers on the dslreports.com forums. Sadly, if Bell manages to get this usage based billing by the CRTC, I'll be changing to a cable service like Rogers as I won't want to provide Bell with any money even through another company. Currently, I use an analog phone service from Bell for around 30$ a month, with Teksavvy costing 35$ + Tax monthly for 200GB and a static IP. If I switch to Rogers, Bell will lose me as a phone customer. I'll have no reason to not subscribe to a digital phone service from Rogers.
I did switch to Teksavvy and have had a great experience customer service wise.
However, do to their reliance on Bell, there's something fishy going on with torrent throttling.
Between 4:30p.m. and 1:30a.m., I cannot exceed speed of 25KB/s down and 10KB/s up using torrents. Changing ports didn't help and using some of the 'encryption' schemes didn't either.
I called in and was told that because the area I'm in (Near the Islington subway station in Toronto) has alot of torrent traffic, bell has started using traffic shaping.
So, Where do I go from here? Any ideas? Rogers is right out and so is Bell. I like Teksavvy, but I don't like having my usage throttled like this.
Basic economics. If lowering the price by less than 50% will more than double the number of people who want to play your game, that's a win. (It's more complicated than that, but the principle is the same.) They may not have been customers before, but they could easily be potential customers. Yes, it is much more complicated than that. Now, IANAE(conomist) but I'm sure someone working for these video game publishers is. I'm also sure that they've worked out an optimal price to turn the biggest profit. Not make the highest possible revenue, but to turn the highest profit.
My friend has to pay 110$(CDN) a month for satellite internet service because thee is no broadband in his area.
1000k/56k He has to use dial up as the upload.
His latency is well over 1000ms on a good day.
I, on the other hand am lucky. I have 5Mbit/768kbit for 50$CDN.
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The problem is that in certain areas Bell is throttling their wholesale customers as well, which applies to Teksavvy. I know that during the day at my Toronto apartment torrents are throttled to around 15-16KB/s. Also if anyone is using torrents on my network it severely degrades the quality of certain VoIP software. A problem that I ceased to have after I switched to a rogers service with a similar speed profile. I do have to say though, that I regret my decision to leave Teksavvy. They provided an amazing customer service experience and outstanding support. Their prices are the best in the city and their bandwidth caps are by far the most liberal. As soon as Bell stops their ridiculous DPI traffic shaping, I will be back to Teksavvy instantly.
Consequently they'll lose my business. I'm currently with Teksavvy and the pricing/service is excellent. Best I've ever recieved. I've used Rogers and Bell in the past and paid easily three times as much for the bandwidth I've used. Teksavvy also has an extremely helpful set of tech support staff and maintains an open dialog with their customers on the dslreports.com forums. Sadly, if Bell manages to get this usage based billing by the CRTC, I'll be changing to a cable service like Rogers as I won't want to provide Bell with any money even through another company. Currently, I use an analog phone service from Bell for around 30$ a month, with Teksavvy costing 35$ + Tax monthly for 200GB and a static IP. If I switch to Rogers, Bell will lose me as a phone customer. I'll have no reason to not subscribe to a digital phone service from Rogers.
I did switch to Teksavvy and have had a great experience customer service wise. However, do to their reliance on Bell, there's something fishy going on with torrent throttling. Between 4:30p.m. and 1:30a.m., I cannot exceed speed of 25KB/s down and 10KB/s up using torrents. Changing ports didn't help and using some of the 'encryption' schemes didn't either. I called in and was told that because the area I'm in (Near the Islington subway station in Toronto) has alot of torrent traffic, bell has started using traffic shaping. So, Where do I go from here? Any ideas? Rogers is right out and so is Bell. I like Teksavvy, but I don't like having my usage throttled like this.
In US public High Schools are there courses teaching programming?
It's too late for me, I'm already under their power.
Run while you can and to not succumb to the power of Azeroth!
I know, I'm new. I apologize to all those who were mildly inconvienienced by my ignorance.
It was done with a PC long long ago: http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html/
Caffeine stains teeth? Well I guess I'll have to use whitening toothpaste after I go on a Bawls binge.
Like H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds the alien bacteria would probably kill us. Likewise it would protect us from alien invaders!
Way to go Microsoft. Screw over everyone who buys your console at launch. Fools.
I really don't understand this article...I have read the point form laws but they seem complicated.
Oh, Crap. You mean people can still see some of that stuff I posted?
Well Crap.
Now I have to destroy the internet to ensure my safety.
My friend has to pay 110$(CDN) a month for satellite internet service because thee is no broadband in his area. 1000k/56k He has to use dial up as the upload. His latency is well over 1000ms on a good day. I, on the other hand am lucky. I have 5Mbit/768kbit for 50$CDN.
But is this the first DVD version? Can anyone tell me.
Pshhhh...Of course. Leroy Jenkins is the new hero of MMORPG players. He pwns.
Or maybe they were the idiots who got caught.