wow. cogeco is worse than rogers. i did not think it was possible to be worse than rogers.
one
bad thing about windsor is that the internet is expensive. there may be
some rumours about bad infrastructure, but i am not really buying it.
it just seems to be that cogeco is charging independent isps more than
rogers is for the use of their lines. of course, i insist upon an
independent isp due to usage limits. i may rarely go over 35 gb, but i
just resent being rationed.
some evidence: consider
vmedia, which offers services in areas where both rogers and cogeco own
the lines. for some reason, the cogeco areas are both substantially more
expensive and substantially slower. because windsor is more affluent
than toronto, i suppose. right. it just appears to be simple price
gouging by cogeco for the purposes of dissuading competition. somebody
send the anti-competition board after the fuckers...
it
appears like i am going to have to resort to a dsl line at under 10
mbps. of course, reality is that 98% of web pages only let you download
at a fraction of that, anyways. nowadays, download speed is determined
more by the server you are downloading from than it is by your
connection speed. you are rarely going to get even close to 500 K, let
alone 750, from much of anywhere except google and netflix. torrent
speed only comes close to that when downloading top 40 shit. so, 8 or
even 6 mbps is more than sufficient for most people. unless you happen
to be connecting to game servers, or you want to watch tv online, or are
renting out the service to everybody on your block, there is little
reason to pay for more than that, anyways. the entire pricing scheme
they have set up is really just a scam to take advantage of people. i
mean, they have a plan at 300 mbps. lol. come on. who do you think you
are downloading from at that speed....
still, the obvious gouging is obvious and i am sort of irked.
the
real reason they push these absurd speeds that nobody can really ever
use is to sucker people into their lower speeds, which are really no
less ridiculous. if you tell somebody that they have the option between
10, 20, 25, and 50 then people will tend to go with 20 or 25 because it
is the goldilocks option. they may not need the fastest, but they do not
want to settle for the lowest. if you add 100, 150, 200 and 300, people
will go with 50 or 100. of course, most of these people will not need
more than 10 - 20 would be overpaying in most cases. but by adding more
expensive items in and providing more options you can bill them twice as
much at no higher of a business cost.
the root problem here is that people just do not understand what it is that they are paying for.
it
would be nice if that drove the lower speeds down in price, but there
goes market theory not working once again. instead, they will slowly
creep up - you can get 50 instead of 25 for *only* an extra $4 per
month! well, until those options disappear altogether and the price just
shifts up.
conclusion: fuck pointless advances in technology. higher costs at no real advantage. i would rather we stagnate a bit, thanks.