[Hamilton] Mcmaster area connection

[Hamilton] Mcmaster area connection
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anon @ 3rd Nov 06:57PM:
[Hamilton] Mcmaster area connection

well its been a year since i last complained about how bad the connection in mcmaster area, across from main, is. It was fantastic for a while, immediately after my last complaint no less, but sadly its gone to shit again. I have the premium 16mb/s package and have never, not once, since turning it on this school year achieved that speed or anything close to that. Even when checked at 7am its only 2mb/s, ridiculous for what i pay. Peak hours i would expect slower speeds, but getting speeds of abound 200kb/s is outragously slow at 70$ a month.

Cogeco service sucks, save your money and go with someone else.
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blackdragon1 @ 3rd Nov 08:21PM:
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I live off cline and also on the 16mbps package. I usually get about 5-10mbps, rarely past that.
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anon @ 5th Nov 04:39PM:
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You might be confusing mbps with mb/s. Cogeco offers a 16mbps download rate BUT that doesn't mean you download 16mb/s. If you go to a mbps to mb/s converter online you get:

16 Mbps
= 120.00 MB/min
= 2.00 MB/s
= 16.00 Mbps
= 1.91 MiB/s
= 7.20 GB/h

So you're actually getting the maxed out speed. It's just your confusion with terms that's the problem, I thought the same thing too when I first got HSI.
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anon @ 6th Nov 11:49AM:
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of course they screw you in the end....
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AMailer @ 6th Nov 03:11PM:
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Mb/s = Mbps (bits)

MB/s (bytes) != Mbps

You should get around 2MB/s and 16Mb/s

p = per.

And yes, 2mb/s is pretty bad - Can't get DSL?
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exseven @ 6th Nov 03:30PM:
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s = seconds
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anon @ 7th Nov 07:11PM:
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unfortunately cogeco is the only provider in my area... There is one run by engineering students but... i dunno
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AMailer @ 9th Nov 09:46AM:
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By the way you're getting slow speeds because, assuming you live in/around the res area, cable is shared and everyone at McMaster uses Cogeco.
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anon @ 10th Nov 01:26AM:
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DSL is not an option?

What service do the engineering students provide???
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blackdragon1 @ 10th Nov 12:15AM:
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what isp??
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