<p dir="ltr">I was with Rogers for around 13 or 14 years, and about 8 months now with a Rogers reseller.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Never ever had a modem burn or die for any reason.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They replaced modems when they upgraded the service (higher speeds require newer modems), but that was about it.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2015 8:13 AM, "Dan Hergott" <<a href="mailto:143news@gmail.com">143news@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've thought about switching to Internet over cable. However I have found that several people I know who have Rogers cable for Internet have their modems die on a regular basis. Not too big of a deal for them as Rogers replaces the cable modem for free.<br>
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However if you're not using Rogers as your ISP over cable you have to generally purchase your own cable modem. Having to purchase a new cable modem when a large, voltage modem killing spike comes down your Rogers cable line would be too expensive for myself to deal with.<br>
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I've been running my DSL modem for 8 years or more without problems and the 6meg speed is fast enough for myself and my wife to use for our needs.<br>
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My wife and I will never deal with Rogers again.<br>
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Dan Hergott<br>
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On 15-01-20 12:02 AM, B.S. wrote:<br>
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But Bell's FTTN is changing that equation. Essentially, bringing that 5km distant endpoint to your local neighbourhood.<br>
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Regardless, Bell will never be able to deliver speeds that cable does, as Khalid points out. And ignore Roger's 'hybrid fibre' marketing nonsense - in the end, what matters is the connection media actually coming in to your residence. With Roger's, that's cable, with Bell, that's twisted pair - unless and until one or the other brings in actual Fibre. Until then, cable will win out. Add in <a href="http://voip.ms" target="_blank">voip.ms</a> and you can toss Bell / twisted pair.<br>
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I've just / am going through this right now - Acanac is a better deal than Vmedia now - let alone with the current $20/month 1st 3 months deal. And their TV solution, should you ever go to it, is all channel local PVR, not a some channels PVR to the cloud nonsense of Vmedia. And looks like TV offerings of any non-netflix type is going to be tied to ISP provider for some time to come. e.g. Rogers shomi is tied to having their internet.<br>
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My switchover to Acanac is to occur next weekend; modem already received. No visit supposed to be necessary. I didn't opt for TV at this time. Still have / am satisfied with basic (analog) cable TV - but once/if Rogers ever forces me off that (killing my Pioneer PVR in the process) I may look at Zazeen again. Thus my current investigation as to whether or not XBMC / Plex / etc. can duplicate my current basic cable needs turnkey like. (No, not a presentation.) I'm trying to watch LESS TV, not more! Argh.<br>
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On 01/15/2015 08:37 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
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Remember DSL is subject to how far you are from the Bell switch. 5km is<br>
about as far as you can get without serious speed degradation.<br>
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On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 1:02:14 AM Marius Kintel <<a href="mailto:marius@kintel.net" target="_blank">marius@kintel.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Jan 14, 2015, at 07:22 AM, Dan Hergott - newsletter email <<br>
<a href="mailto:dhuwnews@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhuwnews@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Charles:<br>
I am not sure what the upload is on the DSL 25 plan, but it is only<br>
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1Mb/s on the DSL15 plan.<br>
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I’m on the Teksavvy DSL 25 plan and get 10 up.<br>
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According to Bell, this is theoretically impossible. Needless to say, I’m<br>
a customer of the company with the better theories ;)<br>
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-Marius<br>
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