Comments on: Cogeco announces new P2P tax

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:24:55 +0000

If you ever seen the Engineering team at Cogeco, you would quickly realise they are a very unimaginative bunch.

Chris McFarlane, the newly promoted head of the division is a self described high school dropout and he is actually proud of that fact!

The network infrastructure is wired together like a Christmas tree and they are always struggling with congesion problems, especially on the upstreams. They can’t seem to get ahead of the curve, so what do they do, easy-raise prices. Their SONET ring is the laughing stock of the industry.

Cogeco, always hiring the talented. I hear they are recruiting the new Bell rejects in droves.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:56:39 +0000

Wireless lan only works when you out in the middle of nowhere. If you are in high rise apartment buildings, that everyone would on the same ranges of frequencies and you’ll get dial up speeds. You are dividing down the bandwidth (correct usage here for transfer rates over time) by N users.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:12:40 +0000

This is precisely what happens when you have government supported monopolies. Inevitably the people always get screwed for the sake of corporate profits.

How about we all circumvent the ISPs and use a wireless based lan?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:38:37 +0000

They oversold nothing.

Its a game to steal your money

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:58:41 +0000

You can’t steal someone else’s bandwidth. The real problem is they have oversold their resources if they are having problems with latency and lag. In Time-Warner’s case, it’s greed. Their cost per megabyte is at least triple what it cost for DSL. No way in the world I would stay with them in this sort of scam.

By: Mike Ox-Small

Mike Ox-Small — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:03:28 +0000

Time Warner is pulling this crap in our city as well. There are gonna be a lot of people switching to AT&T by the time this is over. (It’s their only other option here)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:12:02 +0000

@surfer, its what Tom said.

Fast profits, then run.

By: surfer

surfer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:06:28 +0000

and what are they doing with the profits? certainly NOT putting fiber in the ground, they just want to milk the copper forever.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:07:35 +0000

It’s just been a veritable revolving door with this stuff, hasn’t it?!
“Bandwidth hogs”, “P2P is evil”, “Enhancing our users’ experience”, and “Charge the evildoers”, which really means “Charge them twice, since they’re already paying for it, and keep the propaganda machine running so people don’t see it that way.”

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:03:00 +0000

“…are they going to monitor your cable tv watching habits and pro rate that as well?”

What makes you think they’re not already doing that?
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By: surfer

surfer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:37:07 +0000

so if they monitor your bandwidth and charge accordingly, are they going to monitor your cable tv watching habits and pro rate that as well?