Sit back and ask yourself what value your snarky comments have added to the discussion.
majic already addressed this question in a mature manner on the previous page and my perceptions of the service quality have been changed. I even expressed a desire for Telus to expand to other areas. So tell me: where is the value in your post? Convince me that it isn't completely worthless. Go on, defend your post! Do it!
Fair enough.
When I first moved in to CityPlace the fastest internet available from Rogers (their "extreme" package) was about $60 per month, and was about 7Mb/s. Telus internet is a legitimate 100Mb/s, and was available for $30 for the first 6 months and then $50 after that. So it was a complete no-brainer.
Fast forward several years, and I believe the fastest package from Rogers is about 20Mb/s available only in certain areas, and costs around $70 per month (have to double-check those numbers... but somewhere around there). So again, it's still not remotely close.
That's just the tip of the ice-berg though. Telus' internet bandwidth is dedicated per-suite... whereas Rogers bandwidth is saturated depending on how many others share your node, and the load they are putting on it. Meaning that even with Rogers' extreme package, their advertised speeds are the MOST you will ever get, not the average. Whereas with Telus, it's a 100Mb/s dedicated connection per suite.
Most importantly, Rogers bandwidth is capped AND throttled. Downloading things like torrents are horrendously slow, because Rogers uses traffic-shaping to reduce the speeds of this type of downloading. Even worse, a few years back Rogers imposed a monthly bandwidth cap of 60GB (you probably read about this in the news). Meaning that regardless of how fast your connection is, once you've downloaded 60GB, they start charging you for additional bandwidth.
Telus internet at CityPlace is truly unlimited. There is no throttling whatsoever, and absolutely no bandwidth caps. They are really the only provider in Ontario (and possibly all of Canada) to offer this.
Anyone who actually cares about internet speeds drops their jaw when they see mine. There is simply no comparing it to anything else in Canada. Even when you read about these groundbreaking new fiber-to-the-house technologies they are rolling out in the states and other places in the world, they STILL don't comapre to the speeds that CityPlace users get. We're really spoiled. I realize it's only available to a very small portion of people in Toronto... but for some it's actually a major selling point for CityPlace.
As for your "has it improved over time" question... I can't really answer that. I've been getting 100Mb/s since day 1 (believe me I have tested it thoroughly).
