Help Please!
About to negotiate my yearly internet package with Rogers in Canada and need to rule out a problem if i can quickly.
Rogers BTW is Canadas top Cable provider. The quickest, the best and the most hated.
I am an inner city user so I should have the best access to cable speeds, etc.
I live in an older building, 1940s era.
2 years ago, using a MBP from 2011 I had a rather low $50 internet package from my provider.
They gave me a rather typical router.
I had connection problems that could not be fixed.
Moved up to a $120 package, they gave me a better/faster router I guess it was and all my problems went away.
4 months later didnt want to spent that much money so moved down to adeal I got for $45 and 300 gigs per month.
Problems began again.
I was advised with my MBP to use an Airport Router so i bought a refurbished 2011 Airport Extreme Base station. Stayed on Maverick I believe it was.
Problems went away.
Xmas time, bought the new 27" retina iMac with Yosemite.
Problems began again and are starting to become really annoying.
At least once, if ot twice a day, I lose my connection entirely in Little Snitch.
I can see it blank.
I phoned Rogers a few times and got the typical reboot your router deal and yes, it would usually work again but that gets really tiring to do and I have found that after a few minutes, USUALLY the internet will just come back on again.
The odd time it hasnt, I have rebooted the router and the iMac.
9/10 x it happens when people are home after work, so usually during times of what I perceive to be higher traffic.
I am out of work at the moment so I dont want to have to go lay out another $100 for some newer up todate apple router unless I am 100% sure that is causing the problem. I cant buy it on the perhaps maybe chance and then be told to buy other things to try as well..... I must conserve money.
I do have a $45 internet deal that Rogers, better known as Robbers, is doing their utmost to bump me from, onto a higher package.
If I had not had issues before whereby on a lower package I was able to get it fixed by adding the Apple Extreme Base Station, I might buy into the potential rumours that such companies bump you on purpose only to push you into going into a higher more expensive package but I have to believe if they were really doing it there would be so many complaints that they couldnt get away with it, right?
BUT i also cant ignore the idea that I seem to have no problems on higher more costly packages and problems on lower less expensive ones.
My iMac is not hardwired into the cable. It too is on wifi.
I dont imagine being hardwired in would make that much of a difference, correct?
So.........ANY ideas as I am getting pretty fed up with all the connection loss?
I find my speeds fine at the speed i am at, with the lower package.
Must I consider that in order to be happy I MUST start spending $89 a month for internet instead of $45...IS THAT the issue?
T.I.A
About to negotiate my yearly internet package with Rogers in Canada and need to rule out a problem if i can quickly.
Rogers BTW is Canadas top Cable provider. The quickest, the best and the most hated.
I am an inner city user so I should have the best access to cable speeds, etc.
I live in an older building, 1940s era.
2 years ago, using a MBP from 2011 I had a rather low $50 internet package from my provider.
They gave me a rather typical router.
I had connection problems that could not be fixed.
Moved up to a $120 package, they gave me a better/faster router I guess it was and all my problems went away.
4 months later didnt want to spent that much money so moved down to adeal I got for $45 and 300 gigs per month.
Problems began again.
I was advised with my MBP to use an Airport Router so i bought a refurbished 2011 Airport Extreme Base station. Stayed on Maverick I believe it was.
Problems went away.
Xmas time, bought the new 27" retina iMac with Yosemite.
Problems began again and are starting to become really annoying.
At least once, if ot twice a day, I lose my connection entirely in Little Snitch.
I can see it blank.
I phoned Rogers a few times and got the typical reboot your router deal and yes, it would usually work again but that gets really tiring to do and I have found that after a few minutes, USUALLY the internet will just come back on again.
The odd time it hasnt, I have rebooted the router and the iMac.
9/10 x it happens when people are home after work, so usually during times of what I perceive to be higher traffic.
I am out of work at the moment so I dont want to have to go lay out another $100 for some newer up todate apple router unless I am 100% sure that is causing the problem. I cant buy it on the perhaps maybe chance and then be told to buy other things to try as well..... I must conserve money.
I do have a $45 internet deal that Rogers, better known as Robbers, is doing their utmost to bump me from, onto a higher package.
If I had not had issues before whereby on a lower package I was able to get it fixed by adding the Apple Extreme Base Station, I might buy into the potential rumours that such companies bump you on purpose only to push you into going into a higher more expensive package but I have to believe if they were really doing it there would be so many complaints that they couldnt get away with it, right?
BUT i also cant ignore the idea that I seem to have no problems on higher more costly packages and problems on lower less expensive ones.
My iMac is not hardwired into the cable. It too is on wifi.
I dont imagine being hardwired in would make that much of a difference, correct?
So.........ANY ideas as I am getting pretty fed up with all the connection loss?
I find my speeds fine at the speed i am at, with the lower package.
Must I consider that in order to be happy I MUST start spending $89 a month for internet instead of $45...IS THAT the issue?
T.I.A