Damn you, Cogeco!!!!

[Drewcifer]

Maybe this is just me, or just my neighbourhood, but my cable internet from cogeco has been shit lately. Usually my IP gets dropped within a half hour of connecting to the router. And it's not just me, my neighbours are also having a similar problem.

Any other cogeco customers here? Could this be related to IPv6? Does cogeco just suck?

 

[Brades]

I have cogeco... they suck

 

[Drewcifer]

Oh good it's not just me. Does anyone know if Rogers is better?

 

[rocket hamster]

Trolololol I use Telus. None of my friends use Rogers so I can't provide with that info.

 

[47]

rogers is expensive. i got extreme plus for $80/mo and it disconnects me for a minute, a couple times a day. otherwise stupid fast internets. ive had no problem with rogers in the past wehn i lived elsewhere.

edit: ppl say good things about teksavvy, and its not that expensive. and i should have also mentioned that ROGERS THROTTLES TORRENTS !!! so if ur a pirate, BAIL !

 

[OG buckshot jr]

I use cogeco as well (I'm in the Oakville area), and they've been surprisingly good for me, even though I fuckin hate them. They're cheaper than rogers for the same packages but they're run by a bunch of pakis and french..... :/

 

[Drewcifer]

Shit I didn't know that Rogers did that...I do torrent some stuff.

 

[$alvador]

Go DSL if your area has it. My speeds are negligibly lower than they were with cable but they are always consistent and I never have downtime. Oh, you still use torrents. Well, maybe it's better to keep people like you on lower tiered internet...

 

[Brades]

 

[Shotgun Jesus]

OUCH

 

[Drewcifer]

Go DSL if your area has it. My speeds are negligibly lower than they were with cable but they are always consistent and I never have downtime. Oh, you still use torrents. Well, maybe it's better to keep people like you on lower tiered internet...

What, you expect me to pay $60 for games and $20 for movies?

 

[Spinny]

What's wrong with torrents Salvador? Lemme guess, you use newsgroups, etc?

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Ya really, you special or something? Why should I pay some bullshit like usenet, which IS a torrent site in itself, when I just get shit free? You make no sense mate...

 

[47]

31 mb my left nut, i guess it goes as fast as the server u dling from.

 

[TD|night blade]

Here's my Teksavvy DSL for reference, will get that speed anytime during the day, had Shaw then Rogers years ago and yes its faster, but will clusterfuck during peak hours.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

 

[47]

moar liek this

y my ping so poop from toronto and 5 from kitchener !?

 

[$alvador]

Ya really, you special or something? Why should I pay some bullshit like usenet, which IS a torrent site in itself, when I just get shit free? You make no sense mate...

Ughhh I can't stand usenet. No, I pay for file-sharing sites premium membership instead. Once upon a time I just got sick of a) getting fake files, b) getting spyware, c) getting movies as seen in a theatre through a handicam filmed by a nigerian prince with his sandaled feet up on the seat, d) having to wait for seeders just to get some shitty documentary, e) wondering if my ISP will be using deep packet anal probing to determine whether they should throttle my speeds.

Given all the hassles I've experienced with wondrous "free" (which isn't really if you value the time lost by a fake file downloaded) p2p, I will happily spend $8 a month for access to all the media I can imagine (most of which cannot be found as torrents), at download speeds that will consistently max out even the fastest internet connection any time of the day and get me what I want to watch at 720p or greater in the time it takes me to write this post.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Sorry you've had such bad luck with torrents mate. I'm still virus/spyware free, have only downloaded ONE fake torrent in my life (L.A. Noirse for xbox 360 turned out to be some racing game, but I caught it through downloaders' comments when I was 20% in, so no big loss there), and I have all my shoes in 720P

Either way, I understand your frustration - everyone has a different experience.

 

[Spinny]

I am signed up to a premium torrent site, you gotta either upload for credit or 'donate' money, its relatively cheap though... there are never any fake files, everything is tested and if its not the right file, quality, etc, it gets 'nuked' and you can tell when you download... fake files get purged....