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Originally Posted by terkan
actually.. more ppl than you think is over the cap limit, with the introduction of HD streaming etc etc. a lot of ppl are WAY Over the cap. at least when i was still working for shaw. more than 50% of the people i deal with are over their limit. maybe it just happens to be me. but i'm sure more than 15% of the users are over their limit.
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Exactly say a 2hour HD movie on Netflix is about 4 to 6GB. I tested PPS live at work and about 4hours of using it I have hit about 4GB of download and well over 20GB upload However at work my link s 100 up and 100mbs down). I say at home around 4hours of using PPS it should be around 4GB download and about 8 to 10GB upload. Now PPS runs in the background even if you have it close on your icon tray (you will have to go Crt + alt + del to end the process otherwise it will contiune to upload) Now most people don't know that so they have no idea, same with a lot of people who use P2P programs they have no idea how to change their program settings or if the programs have an option for them to even reduce the upload rate.
SHAW and other IPS have to get with the program with computers and HD space so cheap these days they have to realize that their little badwidth per month is garbage. 2TB HD is less than $50 lol and they give you 100GB to use? What about people who purchase their games/software online to save some money? Example STEAM have sales from time to time and even sometimes huge savings during holidays. So IPS are saying NOPE you can't save coz we have a limit on your Internet.
The future is web base business if we limit ourselves so much we are going to fall behind in technology(which is happening) and soon we will be so behind that no one wants to invest in this country.
CRTC needs to pull their heads out of their ASS and aware that they need to allow more competition into the IPS market. Cut that protect Canadian company crap. Look what WIND did to the celluar compnay? As soon as WIND launches ROGERS, TELUS, FIDO , BELL all drop their prices and even more now. If a company can't make money coz of too much competition then it have no business to stay in business.
EDIT and the main reason SHAW is so against this whole web TV, Streaming channel, Netflix thing is becasue they invested so much in other channel providers. Look it up they own a tons of channel stations (Movie centeerals and HBO for example and a few more big ones). They simply want to over charge you for their cable service and restrict your Internet so you have pay for their overprice shit.