Saturday, January 31, 2009

Boo is for bandwidth.

Bell sympatico sucks, everyone knows this. Mostly because of those fun hidden charges, such as: "cheapest, fastest internet" what they don't tell you is: you have to pay double the listed price, because you have to rent the router. Their service staff seem as though they have never actually used a computer before, and that you interrupt their day by calling. Their "fastest internet" is apparently a 8mb/s connection. However that would mean that in such things as WoW, my latency should be almost 0, not upwards of 150.

The most fun thing about bell however, is that they have a limit on bandwidth. The top account they have can only have an upload/download limit of 60gigs a month. A lot of people go "I don't download that much, in a month, thats fine". Everything you do contributes to this: World of Warcraft, torrents (to figure out how much this will cost you, its not just the size of the download, because remember your uploading at the same time, so multiply the download by about 1.5 to find out the toll it will take), youtube, etc.

For each gig that you go over the limit, you are charged $1.5. Did I mention that bell doesn't actually mention this anywhere? that its only after your charged, if you ask, that they tell you. Anyway, I'm already over this month, which means I'm paying the extra fee, and there are still 5 days to go before next month.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

hey atleast you get 60 gigs, we only get 30 gigs, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH