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To: thecow who wrote (75398)	5/19/2011 9:28:00 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Nice. With cable we can get speeds like yours but there are hard caps. DSL - I am paying $32 for 300GB @ 5Mbps. Price increases with a speed increase but still directly related to how far you are from the central office. Cable is another story but not worth a 2nd mortgage: 10Mbps 60GB cap = $47 15Mbps 80GB cap = $60 25Mbps 125GB cap = $70 <- based on price they want you to get this 50Mbps 175GB cap = $100 (Prices are in CA$ - we are worth more than the US$ ... but I would think our prices still are higher than the US even after conversion) Whether cable can actually chug out 50Mbps is beyond me. For me there are deeper issues. DSL allows torrents though mucked with and throttled. However, I can easily get 500kB/s when there are enough seeds/peers - so speed is fine. Uploading is fine too. With cable, they completely BLOCK torrent uploads - you can download but won't get far as your ratio will never get to break even - banned. Cable basically gives you a Porsche to drive down a main street. I would only pay the $47 price and 60GB is outrageous. I only use about 125-150/month. Watching Netflix lately - quality is so/so - figure DSL (Bell) is screwing around with it. Thanks cow B (OT: I believe you are in the US cow -- just to understand the currency issue in a DIFFERENT way ... years ago Hallmark use to sell their cards with two prices at the back - US$ / CA$. When the CA$ got close to parity, there was a general uproar on why things in Canada still cost more than the US. What did Hallmark do? They only show ONE price, without any currency information. Problem solved. They can now sell with an even bigger markup. In fact 100% true today - I can order crap from Amazon.COM - shipped to a US location for free, and pay ~$20CA cheaper than if I used Amazon.CA and shipped to my home for free. So going on my trip to the US this year, I am leaning toward waiting and ordering again when I am there and ship to the hotel. What is crazy though --- where cars and jewelry and other items tend to be cheaper in the US$, fast food / Coke - all are the same price - not a big deal to US residents, but for a Canuck going and paying say 20% more due to currency [years ago] it is a shock. Today at par the only real issue is the tax difference - 13% in Ontario v. say 0% in PA for clothes, or 5% for general items in VA or 8% for NC. And in NC there is a 2% food tax, where we pay 0%. OH Canada ... but I digress for theeeeee]