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Internet good! Canadian ISP's == teh suck

I'd vote but I'm not Canadian.. thats just wrong... I thought Comcraps was bad...

Shows how much I know about politics.. hey there, so that's who my MP is?

Voted and whatnot, though I'm going to be honest, I don't think anything will be done about this.

i agree, canadian isps suck ass, i miss my unlimited internet!

unlimited would be very nice...

I'd even go so far as to pay 10 cents per GB

votenetvotenet yarrr

Whats the vote for? Internets vs no internets?

it's to try to make politicians aware that we don't want fluff internet...

Is this similar to the American plan to remove net neutrality?

crtc making the decision to allow our internet companies to bill by bandwidth or somesuch, whatever it is, it means more greedy companies gouging people.

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internet companies in canada are trying to bill us per minute of usage. thats the plan atleast

lol thats old school. Canada is heading back to the 90s.

my wife had cogeco back in 08/09 and they didnt have that cap fluff, we were both pissed when we moved back up here to find out there was a cap

They should change internet access to dialup and put a connection time cap on the internets.

Also make people disconnect every 4 hours. Thats oldschool.

o.O that'd be bad

let me see, i can download unlimited data @ 1m bits per second, but my visual cortext can only process how many characters per second?

Why vote for Net?
Net is running because of two disturbing practices of Canada's big phone and cable companies:

1. Gouging Canadians by putting Usage Pay Meter on Your Internet. These new fees are simply a way for big telecommunications companies to gouge Canadians.

2. Throttling or restricting our access to online services Canadians love. Net's candidacy is a tool that Canadians can use to highlight Internet issues, including telecom price-gouging, during the election.

y'all canadians really need to quit with the gay schtick, and actually start paying for the crap that you want to use instead of throwing all y'all's money at the government and saying give it us everything for free!

1080p50 (nominally 2.08 Gbit/s)


so if i have 3 people in my house streaming uncompressed 1080p50, i'd expect to have at *minimum* a 6Gb connection


=D

Who does that o.O. Who has a 6Gbit connection, my work only has a 3Gbit connection.

nobody does it because it's not very feasible atm; but in the future? :)

o.O

Dibs:

I'd be inclined to have some sympathy for companies if their practices and way of doing business weren't so dirty and underhanded. I assume that much of it is because of inefficient red tape and flat out greed.

Have you tried to cancel an account with bell at all? I did, at least three times and received bills from them for half a year after the first.

If you don't pay? They send it to collections agents, who are, of course, wanna-be gangsters that threaten you and your family until you pay back every dime that they claim you owe them.

Hell, they don't even care if the person they are threatening is the person who actually owes them money.

That might sound like a totally separate issue, but ordinary non-business type of people flat out don't care. Treat us right and we will be glad and happy to support those companies and pay for extra services.

I see this thing every day at work. I give good service to people, they buy more things. I treat them fair and don't gouge them and they keep coming back to our company. I'm honest with them and they choose us over the others, even if the top people make it difficult as fluff for the low level guys to do their jobs.

Treat your customers right and there wouldn't be a problem.

agreed@deepcode :)

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don't buy their product and there won't be a problem. they won't have any money to abuse you with.

or wait, you're stating that the employees of the company don't have any choice about how they treat the customers because they don't have any choice about where they work?

oh, da company is sticking it to me... no, that employee is sticking it to you because they're afraid to lose their job, or they just want to meet a quota so they can earn their bonus bucks and live high on the hog.

you still have a choice as to whether or not YOU want to buy their product or service.

But, dibs... say you want to have the internet; because it's fairly essential... but you only have two choices... and they BOTH have fluffty service and treat their customers like fluff...

then what?

do you move to a country where they don't have fluffty ISP's?

no, the internet is basically 90% porn and 10% advertising, or the other way around. it's a damn luxury. it's the same as cable TV.

You do not need it to draw another breath... if you make your money off the internet, then you can pay the required fee to access it, if you don't, then you don't need it to make money and it's a farking luxury item.

you know.... it's bullcrap... i probably have over 500 books that i do not need to spend one once of energy on, just have to wait for the sun comes up to read them, but they want me to think that going paperless will save the environment and keep the world from going into the global abyss of the globular warnings.

Bullfluff. I don't need to expend 1 bit of energy to read my books, just have to wait for the sun to come up.

err so you're saying people should just not use the internet?

same with electricity if your utility co has fluffty service?

kinda depends, how much content versus advertising do you get?
are you downloading 10% content that you need and 90% advertisements that you don't?

and if 90% of the internet is actually porn made for senile old men that can't remember what a boobie looks like, what's it good for? ceiling splotches and sticky keyboards?