Who uses Bell High Speed?

Amailer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:43 pm

If you use it, did you know that they upgraded the speeds?
Also... do you notice any speed changes -.- I surly don't (grrr) getting less speeds than the original plan

Dan · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:49 pm

I used to and i know they did some upgrades to the speed along time ago. But it should be noted that your bell dsl router has a max speed cap bother in it's firmware and hardware. You mayhave to upgrade it to get faster speeds, witch bell will not be happy with. Also dsl speeds are directly realted to distance from the station. And if bell is being evil they could be adding more peoleop on the same line witch means you share speed.

Edit: it should also be noted that hacking your router to remove the cap is a feadal ofsences and i know that at least in the U.S. peoloep have been arseted for it.

Amailer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:57 pm

But if we want it to at least come CLOSE to the speeds they advertise... what on earth do we do? Ask for a new box?

Dan · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:59 pm

I whould call up techsuport and complain to them for a bit, tho consdering your "problems" with your isp befor idk if you whould whont to push them much.

cool dude · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:41 pm

Hacker Dan wrote:

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

maybe thats why i'm getting charged extra every month for bandwidth overuse Confused

i looked at all the downloads it said i made and i was not even on my computer when those downloads took place so thats really strange and i think because i have wireless internet someone else is picking up my signal and downloading on it Confused

brenn · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:01 pm

THEY WHAT?!

But.. I checked the fine print.... Mine's supposed to be unlimited (no cap) ._.; They haven't been charging me extra any. I can't keep track of my bandwidth usage because I share with roomates.

EDIT: omg a chess piece! XDD *continues reading Weiss Side B*

Tony · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:07 pm

brenn wrote:

THEY WHAT?!

cap the transfer speed, not total bandwidth used Rolling Eyes

read the post Razz

Martin · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:24 pm

I'm gonna go crazy when I come back.

Right now I have 50mbps down, 3mbps up, and unlimited bandwidth. Theoretically, this means I should see a maximum of 6.25mb/s downloads and 375kb/s up, but I haven't seen more than 3000kb/s down and 200kb/s up. Under $40/month too.

Canada's gonna kill me.

brenn · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:24 pm

Tony wrote:

brenn wrote:

THEY WHAT?!

cap the transfer speed, not total bandwidth used Rolling Eyes

read the post Razz

I was responding partially to the post immediately above mine. Read the post.

Amailer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:09 pm

You don't get charged for bandwidth on Bell High Speed (Ultra) anymore, if they did- well... my bandwidth is 53GB over so Shocked

Also, I talked to the tech online support and they said they did infact upgrade the speeds AND..... they are in a testing phrase of upgrading Ultra to... (he said not to quote me on this) 12mbps DOWN apprently o.O Which is pretty damn goood Laughing

Mazer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:36 am

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'.

md · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:42 am

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...

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:25 pm

Mazer wrote:

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'.

I agree, but I think it's pretty obvious that megabits are what's being referred to here, although sometimes it does get confusing.

Cornflake wrote:

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

Minsc? Who? Where? Smile

cool dude · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:14 pm

thats crazy!!! u guys r going to laugh when u hear this. my bandwidth was 4 GB which honestly i dunno how because i was not downloading that month anything Confused

and i got charged like $15 extra. i call them up and they said they only give u 2 GB bandwidth limit. maybe its because i don't have ultra i think i just have light. but if i'm going to be paying $15 a month extra for doing nothing i might as well upgrade to ultra because than u get unlimited although i don't want to be paying so much more.

md · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:29 pm

4GB?! I use more then that on an average day... on days when I don't run any filesharing at all I still use ~100-200MB a day. 100MB x 30 days == 3GB per month without downloading anything.

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