Re: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, The Voice Of Objective Truth wrote:

>> FWIW, my cable provider (Shaw) currently gives me 70GB per month, and 
>> when I phoned them a few weeks ago to ask how much bandwidth we were 
>> using (after a couple months of Netflix streaming), I was told we had 
>> used something like 30GB in the previous 30 days -- so we're not even 
>> halfway to using up our bandwidth allotment.
>
> I'm on Rogers Cable with 60GB/month.  I haven't used netflix yet and I 
> average around 40GB/month. My badwidth probably comes from watching TV 
> programs online at the official websites or downloading them via 
> bittorrent.  I rarely download movies via bittorrent as I prefer to 
> rent/buy and get better quality.

Yeah, I only resort to BitTorrent when I need to see something that is 
absolutely inaccessible in any other way.  Emphasis on "need", like when 
it's for research or something.  (I think the first movie I ever 
BitTorrented was the 1950s version of Body Snatchers, which for some 
reason I couldn't find at the library or at Videomatica; I watched that 
film, along with the 1970s and 1990s remakes -- which *were* available at 
the library etc. -- as research before watching the 2000s remake.)

And I don't watch TV, ever, really.  If I hear that a show is good, I'll 
catch up with it on DVD (which is often a better way to watch the show 
anyway; e.g., the HBO series Rome came with a text-commentary track full 
of historical footnotes, which I really liked).  Though of course I'll 
watch the hot clips du jour at YouTube or whatever.

> The few times I've gone over my 60GB are when I've downloaded some 
> purchased or free high quality music or video (Radiohead), or when I 
> started my online backups.

Heh.  No online backups at my end.  Not yet, anyway.

> Bell is the largest due to Ontario (and I believe Quebec & eastern 
> Canada).  I'm not sure of all the history, but Telus is essentially the 
> Bell of the West (technology-wise).  They are separate companies, but 
> probably came across their relative geographical monopolies via similar 
> government regulations.  Generally I've head more positive things about 
> Telus than I've heard about Bell.

Well *that's* a relief!  :)

> Rogers, Shaw, and Cogeco are the major cable providers in Canada, along 
> with Videotron in Quebec and a few regional providers.

Wow, I don't think I've ever even *heard* of Cogeco.

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