Broadband in Canada

[Jerrek]

I figured I'd give you guys an update on pricing of broadband in Canada. As you can see, our DSL sucks balls compared to our cable. I only mentioned Bell DSL, but there are lots of smaller ISPs, but they are all basically the same price. The fastest DSL we have is 7Mb offered by 3Web.


Bell Sympatico DSL (no download caps)
- basic lite [160K/96K], R125/month
- basic [1M/256K], R175/month
- high speed [5M/1M], R235/month

- optimax 7 DSL [7M/1M], R250/month
- optimax 10 DSL [10M/1M], R300/month
- optimax 12 DSL [12M/1M], R350/month
- optimax 16 DSL [16M/1M], R400/month


Rogers Cable (some caps)
- ultra lite [128K/64K], R110/month
- lite [1M/128K], R160/month
- express [5M/384K], 60GB cap enforced, R230/month [rent modem]
- extreme [6M/800K], 100GB cap enforced, R230/month [buy modem]

* In September, Rogers will be adjusting its top two tiers to:

- express [10M/800K], R230/month (unknown cap)
- extreme [16M/1M], R275/month (unknown cap)


Cogeco Cable (no caps)
- lite [640K/150K], R150/month
- standard [10M/1M], R225/month
- pro [16M/2M], R350/month

I am on two Pro packages from Cogeco on one of those routers that support two broadband connections.


Videotron Cable (no caps)
- basic [600K/128K], R100/month
- high speed [5.1M/820K], R150/month
- extreme [10M/1M], R225/month
- extreme plus [20M/1M], R400/month

 

[Telkomisaloser]

-cries-

 

[feo]

Cogeco Cable (no caps)
- lite [640K/150K], R150/month
- standard [10M/1M], R225/month
- pro [16M/2M], R350/month

I'd go for that one...very very affordable. Thanks for the unwanted info though. Made my day

 

[krycor]

wow at those prices dial up would become a forgotten tech.

 

[Inertia]

wow at those prices dial up would become a forgotten tech.

It practically is forgotten in most other parts of the developed world. South Africa has the strange phenomenon of people opting for dial-up before broadband because it is more affordable

 

[nocilah]

i love how 1mb is consider as lite or basic... dunno if i should laugh or cry.