56k modems you can easily do a gig a week+. Not counting normal browseing and email iwas hitting a 1.5 gig a week with just file downloads. When i worked for a local Broadband provider, We started at about 20gig amonth and charged a dollar agig overagebased on actual usage.( selling t1,and fract t1,and t3). I would have to say you are being heavily over charged and improperly managed by Sympatico.
Evan On Sat, 18 May 2002 09:41:15 -0400 "Ian Lalonde @ Roundtable Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately the contract has something in it that states they can > change it any time with 30 days notice. I got the letter May 12, and in > effect June 12. Nothing like giving extra notice. > > An to further this, I left Rogers cable internet 4 month ago. Sympatico > was offering 5 Month 1/2 price (24.95/month) and 1 month free if you > signed up on the internet. Phoned and they told me that I would be > charged the extra transfer over the 24.95! It's still going to cost me > more with the extra charges than their regular monthly rate. > > And to further insult, if you buy your own modem and return the rental > (they charge $10/month for it) they will not remove the rental fee, the > agreement stated that you must rent their modem... What monopoly? Not > Bell Canada! > > Oh well the ISP I'm moving to lets me buy the modem, and only charges > $33.95/month. Unfortunately they resell the service from Bell Canada > which runs Sympatico and owns bellnexxia their Canadian backbone. They > could not tell me if there were going to be usage charges in the future, > I guess it depends on what MaBell charges them. > > Sympatico states that 5% of their users are using this extra bandwidth. > I wonder how many of these high usage people are the ones that recommend > internet services to their friends and clients. Being a web developer > and having a server farm hosted on a 10 meg fibre connection I run into > 2 or 3+ people a week that ask who's high speed service to use. I wonder > who I'll recommend next.... > > I believe if you were using a dial-up connection constantly all month > (be hard to do) you'd be at about 60 Gig. of usage... Go figure. > > Anyone in London, Ontario, Canada looking for alternative service try > Skynet.ca or Golden.net, both have good prices of 33.95, and 29.95 per > month respectively. > > Ian. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Morton > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: DSL charges based on monthly traffic > > > >Effective June 12, 2002, your monthly rate for Bell Sympatico High > >Speed Edition(TM) Internet service will allow 5 Gigabytes (GB) download > > >and 5 Gigabytes (GB) upload of bandwidth activity. If your bandwidth > >activity exceeds either 5 GB download or 5 GB upload, an additional > >charge of $7.95 per GB will be applied to your Sympatico account. > > So they changed your contract. IANAL, but in most developed > countries, this is against the law unless you agree to it. However, > check your original contract carefully for loopholes that allow this > kind of thing. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
