Evening Reading

December 30, 2008 6:00 PM

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As we near the end of the year it feels like a good time to reflect and ponder on our latest journey around the sun. I am pretty sure the world is still crazy, but at least there was a good supply of awesome being created here! We did it!

Times Square light gets an upgrade
Macworld without Jobs :(
Free boobies on Facebook!
Self-parking Fords announced

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

A glimpse of TimeSplitters 4
New Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC
PlayStation Home will stay in open beta for a while
PS3 manufacture pricing down 47%
Capcom reviving classics on PSP
Game characters make you feel fat
KillZone 2 pre-order demo
LittleBigPlanet problems

Lastly, I still have near zero interest in that LittleBigPlanet nonsense. Let the record reflect that. I would rather play Spore. Ok maybe not...

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ieGod

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December 30, 2008 6:00 PM

So I asked earlier but no one replied. Maybe no one is a customer of TekSavvy. But if you are, let me know what you think about the service and so called unlimited data transfer. Is it really unlimited? Inquiring minds would like to know!
- redfive
  
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  December 30, 2008 6:01 PM
  
  TekSavvy is handled by Bell and therefore throttled
  - ieGod
    
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    December 30, 2008 6:02 PM
    
    I'm not interested in traffic shaping for torrent or p2p stuff. My downloads now mainly consist of usenet >:)
    - ieGod
      
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      December 30, 2008 6:03 PM
      
      Basically I can hit my bandwidth limit for the month with Cogeco in about half a day if I were to continuously download. Obviously this is a problem so I want better options here.
      - redfive
        
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        December 30, 2008 6:08 PM
        
        sign up for a business account for $10 more and get unlimited bandwidth with Cogeco
        
        ieGod
        
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        December 30, 2008 6:10 PM
        
        $89/month for 200 gb limit or
        $209.95 /month unlimited
        
        That's a bit more than the $50 I pay now :(
        
        redfive
        
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        December 30, 2008 6:18 PM
        
        oh they've changed that since I used to deal with that stuff. :(
        
        redfive
        
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        December 30, 2008 6:20 PM
        
        there's one less than that for 120GB cap if that helps
        
        boredguy
        
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        December 30, 2008 6:13 PM
        
        The only business account with unlimited bandwidth on Cogeco is $210 a month.
  - redfive
    
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    December 30, 2008 6:03 PM
    
    also http://www.dslreports.com/comment/2564/72079
    - redfive
      
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      December 30, 2008 6:19 PM
      
      this only links to one complaint. Wrong link. Try this one http://www.dslreports.com/reviews/2564
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    December 30, 2008 6:10 PM
    
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- re4ctor
  
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  December 30, 2008 6:04 PM
  
  yeah its unlimited, but you have to deal with bells throttling. been with them for a year and half, very good aside from the mess with bell.
- nova_x
  
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  December 30, 2008 6:09 PM
  
  i was with them for a couple months before i moved from my place in Mississauga -- perfect service and customer service for sure. bell throttled though -- but not their fault.
- boredguy
  
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  December 30, 2008 6:19 PM
  
  I'd switch to Teksavvy from Cogeco but the max speed i can get on DSL is 2.8M too big a drop from the 10M i consistently get on Cogeco.