Rogers High Speed Internet - monthly limits suck.
Posted by admin on April 15th, 2008 filed in TechnologyFor those of you unfortunate enough to get your Internet through Rogers…
Now that Rogers has changed the amount of Bandwidth you get and the charges associated with them be warned…
If you were to download at the full speed of the line, how many hours would you be able to do so before Rogers started charging you extra fees?
Service
Download (Mbps)
Monthly Limit (GB)
Hours to Run out
Extreme Plus
18
95
12.01
Extreme
10
95
21.62
Express
7
60
19.50
Lite
1
25
56.89
Ultra-Lite
0.5
2
9.1
As you can see, most of Rogers MONTHLY plans can easily be run out within a day of downloading (this assumes no uploading bandwidth, which is of course needed during downloads)
Most shocking of all, the ultra-light plan has a $5 per gig charge when you run over that huge 2 GB monthly limit.
Why are we getting the shaft in Canada for our internet speeds and pricing.
Take a look at this article regarding Internet over the power lines in Indonesia.
224Mbps for $1.58 per month. (That’s right… more than 10 times the speed of Rogers fastest connection for 2% of Rogers price)
Anyone want to invest in a Canadian startup of this to flatten our ISPs here?
With the photos and videos and remote backups today - we need more realistic plans to reflect today’s demands.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I was not aware of the limits. What internet provider do you recommend. I am southwestern ontario. Are you serious about starting up a new Canadian internet provider? Tell me more.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Who do I recommend? A 3rd party DSL provider would have these limits… so pretty much anyone EXCEPT rogers or bell. I saw a comment on another site that said these two companies are racing each other to the bottom on customer service.
But seriously, Indonesia gets that kind of speed? When i think high tech, Indonesia doesn’t immediately spring to mind.