Rogers Yahoo! caps bandwidth at 60GB/month |
Loading ...John Dvorak finds this “interesting” and I find this disturbing. 60GB of transfer enough for the average client for a year? What about those who legitimately download movies from services like Movielink or Cinemanow? Why do so many policies punish the good for the actions of the bad? 
… we have implemented a combined upload and download bandwidth limit of 61,440 Megabytes (60 gigabytes) per month. This is a very generous limit which is approximately equal to the consumption of a typical customer in an entire year. [via Rogers Yahoo!]
60GB a month is not a “very generous limit.” Then, again, maybe I’m looking at this too much like a business user (webmaster) and not like an average user. Whatever the case, I sure hope this isn’t going to snowball into ISP broadband bandwidth capping everywhere.
Boo Rogers!!!!
You pay like close to $70/month for High Speed Extreme and he bought into because it ws unlimited at the time. Whats the sense of having high speed if its capped. You don;t want to have to worry about going over the limit. I think Rogers needs to think about what they are doing because people remember and go elsewhere for better service…and I’m not also talking about internet but onto other services they provide. I have been very happy with the service I have recieve but as it pertains to the cap I believe it was wrong.
Comment by Derek — April 14, 2005 @ 9:06 am PST
This cap is absolutely ludicris. I am a Rogers customer…cell, Internet, cable AND home phone. Last month we used 162GB…not because we download music and movies…but because we recieve live stream video from the Philippines…because they are not available over Rogers cable.
All this is, is corporate greed. Screw the customer for a bit more cash. Their nice little letter states that this is to improve the quality of service for it customers…I would REALLY love to know how this is going to improve my service…It’s bullshit…complete and utter bullshit.
Comment by Jason — March 26, 2008 @ 2:03 pm PST