Loading ...Here is an excerpt from a letter I received from the most evil ISP in the universe: “…you enjoy the advantages of an Internet access that includes unlimited downloads. Vidéotron will henceforth set a monthly bandwidth level of 100 GB (download and upload combined) that should fully meet your requirements. Effective October 1, 2007, there [...]
Here is an excerpt from a letter I received from the most evil ISP in the universe:
“…you enjoy the advantages of an Internet access that includes unlimited downloads. Vidéotron will henceforth set a monthly bandwidth level of 100 GB (download and upload combined) that should fully meet your requirements.
Effective October 1, 2007, there will be a fee for usage in excess of the 100 GB combined monthly limit. The fee is $1.50 per additional gigabyte…”
Okay, I realize that most ISP these days enforce a cap of how much data you transfer per month. The thing is, I committed to the contract by paying $69.95 a month for this so-called unlimited Internet access. Now they pull this shit; not cool at all. I also know that 100 GB a month is not exactly restricting. However, as a web-designer-slash-internet-pirate (arrr), I was curious to know exactly how much I download/upload per month. Drumroll… 250 GB combined. Fucking hilarious. I laughed when I saw the number; goddamn, the Internet is good to me.
After reading their terms and conditions and fine-print, I realized that one can get the same unlimited access by switching to a tier below, paying $30 bucks for a 20 down, 10 up account, which maxes any over-transfer at $30 dollars. This would actually be $10 dollars less than what I pay; 70-(2×30). They also offer 30 days to discontinue service with them upon reception of the letter, which is awfully kind of them, those fuckers.
Anyways, after bringing up this little downgrade-loophole with one of their customer service reps (they’re all assholes, by the way), he insisted that the max-cap would be lifted come October 1st, and that exploiting it would result in a disconnection.
Okay, makes sense. They can’t be that stupid. So what is my solution? Well, I’m going to switch to a business account, which offers the same unlimited service at 7Mbps instead of the usual 10Mbps. This is fine with me, I guess. We’ll have to see how it goes. It involves them setting up an additional modem and then sending me another bill every month.
So, terrabytes later, it looks like the heyday of good big city Internet is over. The ISP mafia of Montreal has finally decided to cash in. What now? Well, nothing really. Can’t beat ‘em. I just only hope they somehow lose a lot of money over this decision – not likely.
UPDATE:
Anyways, I am now subscribing to Videotron’s business internet package, which is the only way I can get unlimited upload/downloads here. It’s a bit slower, but whatever; I’ve kind of accepted Videotron as the lame-ass ISP that they are. They are seriously a bunch of incompetent monkeys over there.
kookimebux
February 1, 2009 at 2:03 pmHello. And Bye.
PaizPagorob
March 20, 2009 at 9:25 amvery intresting
Tully
August 8, 2009 at 12:55 amYou can beat them, go with a different provider. I just switched to http://www.electronicbox.net myself because I couldn’t deal with Videotron anymore.