Bell Canada internet issues and a potential scam?

[MackTheHunter]

Hey Koopa, you're in Kitchener? Oshawa here. Haha.

Anyway apparently Bell does this thing where it secretly slowly lowers the bandwidth cap and doesn't tell you. It doesn't even list it on it's website.

I changed my network name and installed monitoring software on every computer. Lets see what happens.

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[Cybersix]

Get Cogeco, in my experience it has been the best isp.

[Swat 3]

THEY WANT YOUR INTERNET

Get the forget out.

[KoopaScooper]

Hey Koopa, you're in Kitchener? Oshawa here. Haha.

Anyway apparently Bell does this thing where it secretly slowly lowers the bandwidth cap and doesn't tell you. It doesn't even list it on it's website.

I changed my network name and installed monitoring software on every computer. Lets see what happens.

Not really Kitchener, the Bell nodes were in London. I'm closer to Michigan than that, Eslove county.
Good luck.

Get Cogeco, in my experience it has been the best isp.

I'd have to agree, despite their speed to bandwidth ratio, it's a hell of a lot more reliable than Bell.

[Chrono]

I'd have to agree, despite their speed to bandwidth ratio, it's a hell of a lot more reliable than Bell.

Yeah I picked up that bandwidth program mentioned earlier in the topic.

Just proves that playing games isn't what kills bandwidth. About 4 or 5 matches of LoL and I'm sitting on 53.50 MB DL, and 15.82 MB UL. This also includes steam and Blockland forum usage.

Now, I go and watch two youtube videos.
Jumped to 69.56 MB DL, for a 3:16 360p video.
Then to 92.43 MB DL, for a 0:32 1080p video.

This hasn't even gotten close to a gigabyte yet.

Though video chat and such probably kills it. Can't test, no webcam.

[Soukuw]

You might be able to find a chart inside the router of usage amounts.

[MackTheHunter]

I have stayed off Video Chat with Skype. Even before though, webcam chat caused no overages.

[KoopaScooper]

A standard 2:40 video at 360p on YouTube should only use ~10MB. Not exactly sure about 1080p videos (I don't watch them in 1080p because I don't feel like it,) but it should be around 4 or 5 times that of 360p. Skype uses a hell of a lot of bandwidth, an hour conversation with 5 people in it cost about 1.8GB of download and 0.4GB of upload. With video I think it's multiplied by 1.2x but I'm not exactly sure as I don't use Skype video chat. Ventrilo and TeamSpeak barely use any bandwidth, while talking for an hour with 3 people I only used 53.62MB download, 15.03MB upload on Ventrilo, and around the same with TeamSpeak. Skype eats way too much bandwidth for what it is. Downloading high-res images is somewhat costly too, but not insane. 30 pictures ranging from 800x1054 to 4028x6780 only costs me ~103MB. I never use more than ~700MB of bandwidth daily. I'm assuming you use at least three times more than me.