It's all over in CANADA

[crahak]

Well, here there are only 2 high speed providers. DSL, which seems to never be availble, no matter where you live, and cable, limited to 3gigs per month, then like 10$ per extra gig. Monthly cost is like 60$ a month right now, and speeds are ridiculously slow. I'm talking 30k/s downstream MAX, on a good day, quiet hours, and from a fast server. So bad that I went back to 56k... 9.95$ a month, and it's almost as fast as cable, sick eh?

Stuff is ridiculously expensive here in canada, that is way true. That is also why I do mail order from the US and still save hundreds of dollars, even after paying a LOT for shipping, and more in customs clearance than tax... I'll buy in canada the day we get prices that aren't this ridiculous, sorry.

BJ_M: tu parles francais aussi??

[BJ_M]

je ne le parle pas du tout

there are a lot of isp all over canada .. cable and dsl providers , check http://www.canadianisp.com/

[crahak]

Hmmm. Ok, we'll pretend you don't speak french :P
There can be many providers in some cities... But we don't all live in say, ottawa or montreal. I live in a capital, and there's only 2 high speed ISP's here, one isn't available basically, and the other one stinks. Yay again...

[resnullius]

where do you live crahak?
BJ_M it's interresting that you say you need to speak french to get service with aei i've had the opposite experience... and that's in montreal
En passant, moi non plus je ne parle pas francais.

[BJ_M]

where do you live crahak?
BJ_M it's interresting that you say you need to speak french to get service with aei i've had the opposite experience... and that's in montreal :p
En passant, moi non plus je ne parle pas francais.

the number is fowarded in ON to montreal and i start hitting all the extention numbers to find a live one ... otherwise thier phone "leave a message" means we will not call you ... other than that - they are fine and dont bother you ..

[crahak]

I live in the maritimes, but I do speak french as well.
BJ_M: well, no one would expect to be called back, nor an answer to an email... lol

[REDi]

ROGERS will be doing caps within the next few months for sure. they aren't sure what the caps will be but last I've heard they were thinking of 8 gigs / month (not sure if that's synchronous with uploads or not). and the freedom of speech thing? waht does that have to do with bandwidth caps? a ton of u.s. isps are also moving forward with the bandwidth capping as well.

as for the cdn levy on CD media, it's gonna suck, howver here in toronto there are a TON of stores selling cheap CDR media, and I'm sure some of them will find ways around the levy I sure hope they do at least, since I enjoy payin $17 cdn + tax for a 50 cd spindle of good 48x 700meg cds.

[WishMaker]

"A revolution now and again is healthy"*
Thomas Jefferson
3rd US President

*-tell your MP your position

Happy Holidays

How true, but the REAL revolution would be if the "average" American citizen would go vote. Last November, I was appalled to see the awful turn out.

American's get just what they deserve when they already have power---their vote. The poor man's vote carries the same weight as the rich mans. What's so hard about the concept in Power In Numbers. There surely are less rich people than the average or poor in this Country.

Okay, I'm off the soapbox. Next...