On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:14 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 04/25/2010 6:47 PM:<div class="im"><br>
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That is kind of slow. About half the speed of Rogers.<br>
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Here is mine:<br>
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I get 1 MB/sec regularly.<br>
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Khalid what Rogers service are you / were you on / speed?<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Judging from the price/features, it is the Express here<br>60GB cap per month, 10 Mbps up, $46.99/month<br><br><a href="http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans">http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans</a><br>
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Also, you might ask yourself just how much speed you really need. And all I mean by that is, between the average (?) 4 - 5 Mbps DSL service, and the 6/8/10 Mbps Rogers service, how often are you really going to notice the difference?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I think I was on the 5Mbps before and got upgraded for free.<br>The cap is the annoying part. We exceed it every few months.<br><br>I don't download much stuff, so yes, things can wait.<br>But don't want to get something that it is less than what I am used to.<br>
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I get if you're saturated at 4 - 5 Mbps already. And I also get that on most any download of more than a few seconds, you're off getting a coffee, going to the bathroom, or (finally) spending time with your family, anyways.</blockquote>
<div><br>What is family? ;-)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The difference in download speeds, sometimes seems hardly worth the price difference. But, YMMV.<br>
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Certainly, having Rogers Express, I'll never go back to a 1 M service. So I can appreciate the concern. But I'm not convinced, myself, yet, that I'd really notice the difference between the two, for the price. Especially if I ever get fully VoIP, lose the land line, then have to pay for dry loop! <sigh></blockquote>
<div><br>The Yak package is appealing because it has no cap and the phone is non-VoIP, with some features that I can use.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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If Rogers did not have cap (60GB in my case), which I occasionally exceed, I<br>
would have stayed with them. That, and the fact that the phone is a POTS<br>
line with free features thrown in ...<br>
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Ignore the cap, just assume per month cost $25 more than they say and get on with it.<br></blockquote><div><br>I take the point ...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mind you, the inability to talk out to SMTP is a real PITA, and no doubt a deal breaker for you. (Rogers, that is.)</blockquote><div><br>I was able to bypass that by routing through my server. Works well. I suspect it should work with Yak too. <br>
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