Everyone! Leave Sympatico Now!!!

Rogers Cable Internet Service sucks, and Sympatico is a run down company, and I hope Bell Canada will go bankrupt very soon! Sympatico ADSL service will now have a 5 GB upload and a 5GB download limit, anything over that? $7.95/GB! Here their reason on Bell Sympatico's offical website:

Bell Sympatico™ is always striving to provide our members with a quality experience on the Internet - we understand that waiting for your favourite sites to load is never fun! The Bandwidth Activity Tracker is just one way Sympatico will ensure that all our members can continue to enjoy their high speed connection to the Internet.

Use of the Internet has evolved rapidly from emailing and occasional surfing. Today, more and more of us are choosing to upload and download (send and receive) digital pictures, multiplayer games, and music and video clips.

This kind of data is complex and requires more bandwidth to transmit these files. For example, it takes more bandwidth to email a family photo than it takes to send a text email.

To keep pace with our customers' evolving Internet usage needs, Bell Canada, like all Internet service providers, must continually invest in expanding and upgrading our network. One of the ways we are addressing this need is by introducing a charge for bandwidth activity that exceeds 5 GBs upload or download.



And I'd say: **** off! you strive to make money, no make your customers happy. Quality my ass, it's ****ing slow comparing to all other providers except the fake ass Primius that uses the Bell service (renamed it under some contract) (probably), plus now, it's freaking limited!
Oh! Funny part, here's what they recommand you to do to keep in the limit:


There are many ways to control bandwidth usage. Here are just a few tips:

-Limit your use of file-sharing programs like Morpheus, KaZaA, AudioGalaxy, Gnutella, BearShare, LimeWire and iMesh. File-sharing programs can generate an enormous amount of traffic when downloading and sharing files. Remember to completely close any file sharing program when it's not in use - don't just minimize it!
-Avoid continuously listening to Internet radio stations as they use a continuous stream of bandwidth.
-Increase the size of your Web browser's cache. Your computer will access the files it needs from its hard drive rather than the Internet. This saves bandwidth and your time as well! For help with checking your Web browser's cache, see: www1.sympatico.ca/help/Software/cachesize.html
-Compress files using a program like WinZip before emailing them.
-Completely close all Web-conferencing applications such as CU-SeeMe when not in use.
Avoid long email signatures.


I'd say: What the **** do you thing you're doing? So, I'm going to limit my internet experience just for you to make more money? Go ****ing Bankrupt!



Sympatico charges you about $45 ****ing dollars every month for their service! Same as everyone else, plus, if I just pay $5 more, I could get up to 1.3 Mbps downstream, and 320 kbps upstream. Ready for playing Halo (XBOX) online with Gamespy Acrade (requires 256 kbps).

AccessVantage charges the following*:
Now $19.95 * per month - for first 3 months (* limited time offer)
Regular price: $29.95 per month
DSL modem rental at $8.95 # per month
-unlimited internet access

Look Communications charges the following*:
Monthly Rate $36.95
Introductory Offer First 3 months @ $24.95
-Unlimited
-Must purchase DSL modem

* No setup fee required

Most other DSL companies does not charge fees for the bandwidth volume! They're all unlimited! SO BELL CANADA! I HOPE YOUR INTERNET SERVICE DEPARTMENT WILL START TO LOOSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER MONTH, CAUSING YOU ALL TO GO BANKRUPT! THEN, THAT WILL MAKE YOU LEARN TO MESS WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS!

*shrugs*

You think that's bad? On my ISP I have a 5GB download limit and 1GB upload limit. Even with these limits, I haven't had any major problems.

I am pretty sure more and more broadband providers are going to do the same thing. More and more users are going to demand more bandwidth, and the big wigs need to do something. It is all about the money.

Yes, that is why most of them will go bankrupt! Just if I know how to network and stuff, I will start my own ISP! Then, grab the businesses from them! Watch them go banktrupt, and LMAO!!!!!!!!

Alrighty then....

Damn I feel lucky. Charter offers a capped pipe at up to 1mbs for $29 and a corperate 1.5mbs at $39. They even have a mettered service for $19 a month. So I can't complain realy. The only bad thing is depends on what area you are in. If you are in a competing market then you only have to get their basic analog cable for $10 extra a month. If you are not in one of those areas then you have to get basic digital cable for anywhere from $19-$39 a month. Anyway, it's still a good deal. I get a great pipe and so far no competition for bandwidth. At least this is how it is where I live. I know Charter is different in other locals depending on if its their pipe or a leased one from RR or ATT and so forth.

Here in Australia you can get cable for $75 a month(Stop whinging Lawrance)
The good point about it is....30 gig a month total bandwidth.

Those prices do sound bad and i hope the customers speak with their wallets!!

I'm still using my 56k modem unlimited access for $25 a mth.

It's to be expected...here, Tampa Bay Roadrunner just started their preferred service where residential cable users get a limited upload/download amount and pay for the amount they use after that. Why? Because of all the teeny-boppers and college students downloading the planet on Kazaa, Morpheus, etc etc. Add in the multiplayer games and whatnot and you end up having bandwidth problems network-wide.

That's why I pay for Business Class Static, 3mbs down, 768kbytes/s up true. No restrictions, no worries, no anything...

As I clearly said in another post, I ditched sympatico 100 years ago, any newbie will jump on sympatico in Canada making it the most overcrowded ISP up north, they got great marketing skills...

Get over it. Thats like bitching that AOL sucks. Everyone knows it. They are still making crazy money. If you don't like what they are doing, switch to a different company. You posted 2 other DSL companys....use one of them. Don't bitch to me that you don't want to spend and extra $8/gig just so you can download more porn. If you are going over 5 Gig in a month, then either you are running a server in your house (and I bet you are not paying for a commercial connection) or you are spending to much time on Kazaa lite (and I would bet money that you are dl'ing illegaly pirated software/movies/etc). So either buy a commercial connection like you should, stop bitching that you can't break the law as much, or get over it and move on.

Bell did the same with their "unlimited" long distance.....

Started off with unlimited nights and weekends, then switched it to 800 minutes, due do huge loss of money.....

Only problem, there is NO way you can check your monthly usage...... *****in' ***holes....

lol souleman, I have to agree with you on that one but Sympatico still sucks ;)

I don't agree with you Souleman. My ISP *i am lucky* provides unlimited upload and download bandwidth (speeds capped at 3mbits). Thats how it should be. If someone pays for a service, they get unlimited use of it.

Whats next? Are they gonna start charging us extra money for watching more than 3 hours of Cable TV a day and charge us $5 for every extra 10 hours we watch it? No one should cap how much someone can use their service unless clearly defined in the contract at the beginning. Now that they aren't making as much money, they want to force people into their new rules. Its not right.

I pay for my phone... don't get unlimited use of it though...

Gee negative, thats what I was going to say.

loony 1> I would be willing to bet that if he read his contract, it would include something saying that the TOS could be changed at any time. It may have even been specific enough to say that a bandwiidth limitation could be imposed if necessary. If it doesn't, then don't leave sympatico, sue the **** out of them...

AOL raised their prices awhile back. Did people bitch, or just leave? I used to have an Earthlink account. They changed it from 1 account to 7, and raised the price $5. I didn't bitch, I just changed to a different ISP.

Negative has it, people - the simple fact is that, with as many people on the internet now as there are, unlimited bandwidth for freakin' free is a thing of the past. My cousin moves a Gigabyte a day in bootleg movies - is it fair to everyone else on the connection that just wants to check their e-mail that he's using the whole thing?

SSJVegeta-Sei

It's like 98% of the rest of the for-profit companies in the world...

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of the almighty dollar!

I agree that sympatico high speed sucks. Thats what I'm using now and my internet is still slow. Because of people who abuse the bandwidth and hog everything using Kazaa. Sure I use Kazaa every now and then but I don't abuse my bandwidth. With high speed you are supposed get like 1mps or more but I only get like 10-12kps on bad days and I've maxed out at 200kps (once or twice only). If I had a choice I'd go cable but I don't right now so I'll just suffer. And if sympatico does limit our bandwidth then I'll be happy cause then maybe I'll actually get highspeed internet.