Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada

Re:Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada by dghughes on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:56AM (#14172831)

I'm in Canada I don't see any point in getting rid of my 25Mbps uncapped account. Going to a 300Mbps or 1Gbps is pointless if you have a 300GB cap especially now with videos in UHD on Netflix and YouTube. I pay $183 for basic cable and 25Mbps/1Mbps but no cap since I've had this package since 2002.

  Into the belly of the beats I go! ....

 For Bell their 300Mbps plan is $121 with a bundle but then after three months "in market prices apply" which I guess is $300/month but after nearly 2 hours of looking I couldn't find it shown anywhere. And Bell just raised all Internet packages by $5 month in Jan 2017.

 Bells' "Acceptable Use" is mentioned but I tried to see it I clicked "Terms of Use" at the bottom of the plan, new page, click to expand "Internet and Value Added Services" which has three links to PDF documents, "Bell Aliant Fibre Services" document, that document has a link in "Internet Acceptable Use" it opens a new page with Legal and Regulatory columns each with four links and each of those links go to new pages with several more links, those several links expand to show links to more PDFs. At several points on several pages and in the PDFs I was directed back to the Legal and Terms page.    


 I'm pretty sure that Bell Canada 300Mbps or 1Gbps plan is capped at 300GB/month over that exceeds their vague and seemingly non-existent Acceptable Use TOS. And those plans cost a lot $300 for 300Mbps which may be the vague "in market price" that's if you don't bundle them with Bell's TV and landline/cellphone.

 There's two hours of my life I'll never get back. You win Bell.

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Re:Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada by sergers on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:16PM (#14173522)

Shaw 150Mbps package comes with 1TB of data.

I stream all my content including using iptv, hardly download anything, and hit under 500GB a month.

It has a cap, but quite generous.

I no longer hoard media downloads, and only stream what I went when I want... No pre-grabbing every download I could source.

I notice as the years pass, my ISP speeds are going up, but my demand for that extra bandwidth has gone down. I use to do several 100 GBs on a 1.5mbps DSL connectio with Usenet running 24/7 ~20years ago (got banned by both local ISPs temporarily... Times before they started charging or not caring)

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Re:Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada by problems on Saturday April 22, 2017 @12:17PM (#14173186)

Most ISPs offer uncapped for a fee. Bell offers a deal with their mid level TV package and uncapped gigabit for $100, you might have to get the right sales person for it though. I have that deal for 2 years right now. A few friends of mine are on a similar deal from Rogers, but Rogers only has docsis to my area and not ftth. You're getting ripped off and badly. The straight up flat rate advertised price for uncapped gigabit on bell is $150.

https://www.bell.ca/Bell_Internet/Products/Fibe-Internet-940...

Note the "included monthly usage" is unlimited. Unlimited is at least fairly unlimited - I burn over 5TB/mo sometimes (big nas and Plex server) and they have no problem with it. If you're willing to ditch the TV, check out some of the smaller time ISPs too, often good deals to be had there. Teksavvy is offering $89 for 250mbit unlimited.

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Re:Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada by tzs on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:21PM (#14173551)

I'd much rather have 300 Mbps than 25 Mbps, and I've never went over 50 GB of downloads in a month.

I wouldn't download more data if I had 300 Mbps than if I had 25 Mbps. I would just not wait as long for it to download.

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