And if bell is being evil they could be adding more peoleop on the same line witch means you share speed.

THEY WHAT?!

cap the transfer speed, not total bandwidth used read the post

Dammit all, I can never tell when people actually mean to say 'b' or if they're too lazy to hit shift and say 'B'.

last month I was at a total usage of 238GB (gigabytes minsc)

Good thing rogers doesn't charge either... last month I was at a total usage of 238GB (gigabytes minsc) when the limit is supposed to be 102...

12 Meg Service : Sympatico Supreme
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During the month of February, Sympatico will be releasing a limited
deployment of the Supreme service which will allow Customers to access a 12
Meg High Speed Service. At this point in time, all Customers have already
been pre-selected in the Toronto area (Leaside). During this period you may
notice the following pop-up in #@$@#$@ when you have come across a trial
Member.

Background Information

The 12 Meg service (labeled "Supreme") will allow Customers to have access
to a guaranteed 12 Meg service. There are no maintenance profiles for this
service, if the Customer cannot obtain the 12 Meg Service, they will need to
downgrade to a different speed profile (i.e. 3 Meg). Each of these Customers
will be using Lucent Technology therefore $%#$%#$%#$% will not be used to
troubleshoot line issues.

All new and existing Customers will receive a full install at no charge.
They will also receive a new wireless home networking modem with a slightly
different firmware version. ( Modem will be received with the AA1 firmware.)
Troubleshooting and escalation procedures remain the same.
The "Estimated Sync Rate" field in PSQT will display 12M if a Customer in
this area qualifies for the service.
Pricing

Service will be priced at 99.99$ per month (#$#@$@#$#@ - Non-contract),
wireless home networking modem and full install charge will be waived. There
will also be a contract offer at 99.99$ per month (#$#$@#$@#) and a back
pocket contract offer of 89.99$ per month (#$@$@#$@).

The full install fee should be waived on these accounts.
Customers on the Supreme service are not eligible for the digital bundles.
Impacts to Elevate

If a Member already active on this service calls-in requesting the addition
of VAS services, you are NOT authorized to sell any available service in
Elevate.

Available VAS to these Customers will be the same as the Ultra service,
notably:

Gamesmania, Kidsmania and Games Pack
Security Services, including Anti-Spyware
MSN Premium
Internet Care
Note: Notice that NO Home Networking option should be available because it
is part of the initial package.

Availability

The Leaside area of Toronto (approximately 5000 people). SMS will not be
promoting this product to the Customer base. SMS Agents are not to attempt
an up sell of this product at this point in time. New orders with go through
the #$%$#%#%@$%#@%@#%#@%$#@$#@.

Tracking in @#$@#$@

Please use the "12 Meg" selection from the special tracking field in Remedy.

Scripting

If a Member calls to inquire about the service:

"Mr. /Mrs. Customer, currently the Sympatico Supreme service is in limited
deployment for a designated area of the city of Toronto , and the potential
Member base has already been pre selected. We are running this deployment to
ensure that all technological requirements meet the Bell quality service and
standards. More information will be provided in the future. We thank-you for
your patience and understanding with this matter."

That's the other problem with "High speed", the upload rate is crap. Sometimes my upload is so saturated that I can't send more requests for downloadign things; which means that I can't saturate the download.

Then of course there is hte whole "no running a service of any kind", and then packet shaping to limit what you can actually use your connection for... It's pretty rediculous. I don't mind ISP's limiting how much you use in a month; because they have to pay for that bandwidth too. But limiting types of traffic, and providing such horrible upload that you can't do anything are rather poor. Actually, traffic shaping might even be illegal.

They don't care because they don't know. If you suddenly get lots of traffic and they notice then they will care. Note that services are as broad as online games; if people are connecting to you then that counts.

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