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01-24-2011, 11:07 AM
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#1 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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So shaw is going to start charging for over usage according to the http://www.dslreports.com/forum/shaw and their site
I just called Telus and moved everything over cuz I rage at them not notifying me anything at all in bills or by phone.
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01-24-2011, 11:15 AM
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#2 | | I STILL don't get it
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Hmm may consider switching after if I notice anything fishy thanks!
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01-24-2011, 11:18 AM
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#3 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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massive thread here: http://www.revscene.net/forums/chang...t-t632852.html
and it's all over the news lately.
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01-24-2011, 11:19 AM
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#4 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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| https://chrome.google.com/extensions...mkagkaobkdcdal
you can see your usage via this extension, cant do it thru their stupid site
but yeah its 15-15-15 promo atm for the 1st year on 3yr contract with telus and 10 dollars per month for cancellation before term expires which works out to be ok if something bad happens to telus as well and shaw becomes good again. But for now.... here I come Optik Turbo 25mbps yeyeye. Getting everything installed next monday!
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01-24-2011, 11:25 AM
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#5 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero  | ahhh right should of gone over there but some of us are off topic lurkers thus i didnt see it lol
but yeah, at 513GB overusage, I see myself royally screwed lol
Luckily, I have a server for reasons such as these to do my middleman torrenting. But yeah, I blame PPS and Bluray rips.
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01-24-2011, 01:07 PM
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#6 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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hilarious...exact same thing happened to us...we're switching to telus as of next month. Shaw's gonna lose a lotta customers :-D
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01-24-2011, 01:20 PM
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#7 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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yep and dont forget telus also upgraded their infrastructure to compete with shaw and what have shaw done? just increased prices lulz
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01-24-2011, 02:05 PM
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#8 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Fuuuuuuuu shaw. if I see anything on my bill I'm fsure switching to Telus. Plus ill get a brand spanking new Xbox  Posted via RS Mobile | |
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01-24-2011, 02:41 PM
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#9 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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So Telus does not have an internet usage cap?
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01-24-2011, 02:44 PM
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#10 | | I STILL don't get it
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^they do but as far as I've read they are not really strictly enforcing it, is anyone else having trouble with the google chrome extension ? I downloaded it and it says unable to connect for me =/
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01-24-2011, 03:20 PM
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#11 | | VLS Barista Brat
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01-24-2011, 03:35 PM
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#12 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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I don't see the problem. This is a GOOD change by Shaw.
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01-24-2011, 03:46 PM
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#13 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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If you haven't seen it in the thread in the Computer section, TekSavvy has recently begun to offer Cable internet in the GVA as well.
They have a few plans with unlimited bandwidth caps.
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01-24-2011, 03:50 PM
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#14 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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Shaw is kind of missing a piece between Extreme and Warp. To pay almost $100/month for the internet is a little hard to swallow for most. Something along the lines of $65/month with service in between the Extreme and Warp offering should be well received by the consumers.
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01-24-2011, 03:52 PM
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#15 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Nightwalker I don't see the problem. This is a GOOD change by Shaw. | Premium-grade transit in a data centre costs $0.05 to $0.10 per GiB when you work it out. The CEO of Teksavvy is on record saying that the per GiB cost to them is in the $0.01 to $0.03 range for consumer-grade transit.
The problem is not, in my mind, usage-based billing. I would be perfectly fine if they charged $15 a month for the line itself and then billed $0.05 per GB. Use 5 GB? Pay $0.25 on top of the line fee. Use 500 GB? Pay $25. Given the theoretical limit of a 5 megabit line is about 1500 GB a month, truly unlimited Internet seems quite reasonable for $50 a month on the assumption that your customer will only be downloading at full speed 30 - 50% of the time (which is quite a lot!)
Except that's not what they're doing, they want to charge something in the realm of 100x or more what it actually costs them to provide the service! $1.25 per GiB. $2.00 per GiB. What the hell is this? 1991? we're upset to have but no choice (yay monopolies!) to pay hundreds of times what it actually costs the companies to provide the service!
They're doing this solely to kill competing video-on-demand services. They're using their monopoly in one field (ISP) to guarantee their profits in another (content provision). It's disgusting and I can't believe it's not illegal.
If the power company suddenly raised the cost per KWh from $0.09 to $4.25, even though you knew it only cost them $0.08 per KWh to generate the electricity, would you be fine with that?
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01-24-2011, 05:20 PM
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#16 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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i hate it when shit like this happens . everyone in this world is just so shady now adays all they care about is money
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01-24-2011, 05:25 PM
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#17 | | The Lone Wanderator
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One of the reasons that companies are loathe to charge a minimal fee for basic line + usage is the revenue peaks and valleys they would then experience.
Rather than a steady stream of income plus bonuses, they would receive constantly fluctuating results--never good for a large publicly traded company that does its best to create accurate revenue projections for shareholders. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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01-24-2011, 05:54 PM
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#18 | | Prince of the Apes
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Originally Posted by kyoshiro | Some how in november i used 88gb, december 340 gb, current month at 68gb..
wtf? Lol
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01-24-2011, 06:13 PM
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#19 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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People that DL a lot will be hit the most, but for me personally, I use Shaw highs-speed internet and my bandwidth limit each month is capped at 60GB. Don't think I've ever gone over that from all the years I've been a customer.
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01-24-2011, 06:27 PM
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#20 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Euro7r People that DL a lot will be hit the most, but for me personally, I use Shaw highs-speed internet and my bandwidth limit each month is capped at 60GB. Don't think I've ever gone over that from all the years I've been a customer. | Most people are capped but Shaw never charged for going over. How did you know you were not going over?
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01-24-2011, 06:32 PM
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#21 | | NEWBIE ACCOUNT!
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Those who are not in favor of these changes might want to support this page: http://openmedia.ca/meter
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01-24-2011, 10:39 PM
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#22 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by Manic! Most people are capped but Shaw never charged for going over. How did you know you were not going over? | I know I'm not going over because most of the time when I am online, it's for leisure internet browsing (RS, FB, email, read some news) and a few movies and music downloaded in a given month. So assuming for example, I use 30Gb for media (video + music), that leaves 30GB for other usage, which I doubt will exceed the 60gb cap.
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01-24-2011, 10:57 PM
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#23 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Lot of asians that stream movies/shows on ppstream and funshion are probably going over too.
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01-24-2011, 11:00 PM
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#24 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Euro7r I know I'm not going over because most of the time when I am online, it's for leisure internet browsing (RS, FB, email, read some news) and a few movies and music downloaded in a given month. So assuming for example, I use 30Gb for media (video + music), that leaves 30GB for other usage, which I doubt will exceed the 60gb cap. | You don't think in the future you will ever go over 60 gigs. What if you get netflix a PS3 or something else?
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01-24-2011, 11:01 PM
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#25 | | Say! Say! Say!
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I can see a lot of Shaw employees getting laid off 
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