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That symmetrical 1gbps probably had a 50 GB monthly quota. If you haggle, you can get unlimited for $55/month, two year contract, without TV etc.

But yeah, I stick with Teksavvy. Only have Bell for a secondary house, where they removed their copper service...

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It was unlimited. They added fibre to our entire neighbourhood and this was a special deal related to that.

I love the idea of a 50GB monthly cap on 1gbps Internet. Blow through that in under 7 minutes.

Good luck finding someone who can serve you at 1Gbps. Like seriously, I'd be curious who you've found because I never actually hit that except in speed tests :(

It's not about peak bandwidth for a single machine. It means you'll have so much bandwidth that multiple people in the house can be streaming full duplex HD video over VPN without having latency impact on those gaming at the same time.

I find that it’s generally the sender that has trouble serving 1GBPs, I’ve occasionally gotten it from my AWS instances when the result is in memory already

I get about 940 megabit down with Telus, on Vancouver Island. Not on speed tests but pulling down torrents, etc. Close enough to gigabit that I don't sweat the delta.

Yes, that's about right with overheads.

Steam is the one I've found that can really saturate a connection. But be warned, because with how it distributes some games using compression your CPU & SSD might be the bottleneck.

In 6 months they will raise the price as the contract allows.

No I have the same. It’s regular priced plan, discounted by half for everyone in the building for the first two years. There are no ways in the contract to raise the price before that.

They raise the base price of the package.

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/bell-internet-price-increase...

Yep one more reason to hate Bell. You have to haggle regularly, their sales people lie and do tricks, they constantly break their own contracts. It's a full time job.

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