Note to self, internet speed does not cost more

[will13am]

Hoping that Public Mobile and other third tier brands gets the memo one day... 

https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/11/29/shaw-double-internet-speeds-western-canada/

[stonechucker]

When the CRTC said everyone should be able to have a minimum of 50 MB/s download, why am I still paying for less?

[will13am]

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@popping wrote:

For the high cost home Internet plan, they include unlimited bandwidth.  I don't want to pay overage on the 600Mbps plan.

I have Telus 50Mbps plan with fixed bandwidth.  I signed up CRTC SamKnows program to monitor my Telus Internet connection speed.  Since Telus cannot separate which data is used by me and which is used by the CRTC SamKnows whitebox.  Telus gave me unlimited bandwidth on my 50Mbps Internet service.

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It should be criminal to sell limited usage home internet plans these days. 

[tehowennathe]

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@computergeek541 wrote:

I wonder if some day, it'll just be unlimited callling, texting, and data without throttle for about $50/month.  I do not know anything about the cost comparison between wireless and traditional home internet infrastructure.  However, what I can say is that Bell constantly installing remote DSLAMs and fibre, and with Rogers also constantly boosting speeds as well, those type of infrastructure upgrades can't be cheap.  Perhaps just make it all wireless?  I also wonder if all wireless could be made reliable enough for that and if the carriers would be willing to price it in line with home internet pricing.

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Ice Wireless in Northen Canada apparently is one of the few to offer unlimited data without throttle but it comes at a cost of $89 a month. If carriers could follow that but lower price.

[Anonymous]

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@popping wrote:

For the high cost home Internet plan, they include unlimited bandwidth.  I don't want to pay overage on the 600Mbps plan.

I have Telus 50Mbps plan with fixed bandwidth.  I signed up CRTC SamKnows program to monitor my Telus Internet connection speed.  Since Telus cannot separate which data is used by me and which is used by the CRTC SamKnows whitebox.  Telus gave me unlimited bandwidth on my 50Mbps Internet service.

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Interesting. But wow y'gotta trust the gubmint.

[popping]

For the high cost home Internet plan, they include unlimited bandwidth.  I don't want to pay overage on the 600Mbps plan.

I have Telus 50Mbps plan with fixed bandwidth.  I signed up CRTC SamKnows program to monitor my Telus Internet connection speed.  Since Telus cannot separate which data is used by me and which is used by the CRTC SamKnows whitebox.  Telus gave me unlimited bandwidth on my 50Mbps Internet service.

[Anonymous]

I suspect some of the rural motivation is so they can say "see we're working on the mandate of internet everywhere" and so rural customers I think are getting a bit of a break.

For me, my options are dial-up (as if and do they even have modem banks somewhere anymore?), that satellite that explores your wallet, cell hotspot, which leads to this very good cell service. No brainer.

Since I'm last poster at the moment...Edit: CBC has picked up on this too. So it must be true 🙂

[computergeek541]

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@will13am wrote:

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5G could potentially make wireless good enough to replace much of the wired infrastructure.  Even today, LTE is adequate to service rural areas where a fully wired infrastructure may not be available.  Although the price is high, it is not outrageous.  It will definitely make you wonder why data in a phone plan is so expensive.  Take a look at what Telus wants for 500GB LTE data. 

https://www.telus.com/en/bc/internet/smart-hub

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So, if there's doing 50GB for $60 or 500GB for $110 on a cellular network, why in the world are cell phone users stuck with 1GB for $40 or whatever the carriers want to charge?  There certainly isn't a difference in cost.  While I think that those high speed rural internet pricing is stil greatly overpriced, it just goes to show that there really isn't much reason that cell phone and tablet users couldn't be offered much more than the measly few gigabytes that we have now.

[will13am]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@will13am wrote:

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Data usage is also super cheap.  I still remember the days when ISPs would try to feed garbage to the CRTC that it costs so much for bandwidth that they need to sell overage at $1/GB.  My home internet usage is measured in TB.  I would go broke paying $1/GB.  Interesting how Rogers is not going broke charging an overage rate of $0/GB. 

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Overage for volume pishaw. Why sonny I remember back in the day when we were charged overage for TIME online. Oh and the fancy expensive modem blasted away at 0.0024mbps. None o' this fancy pants 300mbps nosirree.

We had it tough. 🙂 

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I remember those days.  I splurged on a 56k modem.  On good days, I could connect at 46k.  I used Win 98 SE ICS to split the connection.  The suffering didn't last that long as Shaw rolled out high speed internet fairly quickly.  I was probably the first person on the street to have it.  Shaw was really generous to include a free installed 3Com ISA NIC that retailed at over $100.  Back in the day high speed internet had a peak speed of 1 mbit/s.  Web pages were not like today full of click bait, so 1 mbit/s feels like 300 mbits/s. 

[Anonymous]

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@will13am wrote:

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@computergeek541 wrote:

I wonder if some day, it'll just be unlimited callling, texting, and data without throttle for about $50/month.  I do not know anything about the cost comparison between wireless and traditional home internet infrastructure.  However, what I can say is that Bell constantly installing remote DSLAMs and fibre, and with Rogers also constantly boosting speeds as well, those type of infrastructure upgrades can't be cheap.  Perhaps just make it all wireless?  I also wonder if all wireless could be made reliable enough for that and if the carriers would be willing to price it in line with home internet pricing.

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5G could potentially make wireless good enough to replace much of the wired infrastructure.  Even today, LTE is adequate to service rural areas where a fully wired infrastructure may not be available.  Although the price is high, it is not outrageous.  It will definitely make you wonder why data in a phone plan is so expensive.  Take a look at what Telus wants for 500GB LTE data. 

https://www.telus.com/en/bc/internet/smart-hub

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That's the service I have. Very happy with it. Haven't used it in a pounding blizzard yet but it has kept going. I went for the 250GB. That way I can just think that I would have to work pretty hard to get close to. I really didn't think I needed the 500. I could probably get by with the 50 but there aren't any add-ons or rewards 🙂

Until I get one o' them new-fangled smart tv's anyway 🙂

OT: I also have the Telus Wireless Home Phone. I'm all in with Telus 🙂

[will13am]

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@computergeek541 wrote:

I wonder if some day, it'll just be unlimited callling, texting, and data without throttle for about $50/month.  I do not know anything about the cost comparison between wireless and traditional home internet infrastructure.  However, what I can say is that Bell constantly installing remote DSLAMs and fibre, and with Rogers also constantly boosting speeds as well, those type of infrastructure upgrades can't be cheap.  Perhaps just make it all wireless?  I also wonder if all wireless could be made reliable enough for that and if the carriers would be willing to price it in line with home internet pricing.

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5G could potentially make wireless good enough to replace much of the wired infrastructure.  Even today, LTE is adequate to service rural areas where a fully wired infrastructure may not be available.  Although the price is high, it is not outrageous.  It will definitely make you wonder why data in a phone plan is so expensive.  Take a look at what Telus wants for 500GB LTE data. 

https://www.telus.com/en/bc/internet/smart-hub

[ShawnC13]

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@will13am wrote:

Hoping that Public Mobile and other third tier brands gets the memo one day... 

https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/11/29/shaw-double-internet-speeds-western-canada/

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thanks for the link!!  Will power cycle on Monday and see if I get the 300 now

[computergeek541]

I wonder if some day, it'll just be unlimited callling, texting, and data without throttle for about $50/month.  I do not know anything about the cost comparison between wireless and traditional home internet infrastructure.  However, what I can say is that Bell constantly installing remote DSLAMs and fibre, and with Rogers also constantly boosting speeds as well, those type of infrastructure upgrades can't be cheap.  Perhaps just make it all wireless?  I also wonder if all wireless could be made reliable enough for that and if the carriers would be willing to price it in line with home internet pricing.

[Anonymous]

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@will13am wrote:

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Data usage is also super cheap.  I still remember the days when ISPs would try to feed garbage to the CRTC that it costs so much for bandwidth that they need to sell overage at $1/GB.  My home internet usage is measured in TB.  I would go broke paying $1/GB.  Interesting how Rogers is not going broke charging an overage rate of $0/GB. 

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Overage for volume pishaw. Why sonny I remember back in the day when we were charged overage for TIME online. Oh and the fancy expensive modem blasted away at 0.0024mbps. None o' this fancy pants 300mbps nosirree.

We had it tough. 🙂 

[will13am]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@will13am wrote:

Hoping that Public Mobile and other third tier brands gets the memo one day... 

https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/11/29/shaw-double-internet-speeds-western-canada/

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Not far now not far...unlimited data on any device. 🙂

Not speed I know...but wouldn't that be nice.

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Data usage is also super cheap.  I still remember the days when ISPs would try to feed garbage to the CRTC that it costs so much for bandwidth that they need to sell overage at $1/GB.  My home internet usage is measured in TB.  I would go broke paying $1/GB.  Interesting how Rogers is not going broke charging an overage rate of $0/GB. 

[Anonymous]

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@will13am wrote:

Hoping that Public Mobile and other third tier brands gets the memo one day... 

https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/11/29/shaw-double-internet-speeds-western-canada/

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Not far now not far...unlimited data on any device. 🙂

Not speed I know...but wouldn't that be nice.