Sin and Punishment 2 have been in the clearance bin at my Walmart for $10 for a while.
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Sin and Punishment 2 have been in the clearance bin at my Walmart for $10 for a while.
It's actually less than a dollar on clearance at The Source now if you can find one at a local store. If you can actually track down a copy, it's a steal.
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doctorcdcs
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uh, amazon.ca has it for 59.80
you could always take that to futureshop and price match that. heh
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Same for me. Clearing my cache does not.
edit: Welp, working for you now. Might just try refreshing a thousand times.
DJ_Lae
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That makes sense.
And would explain why Telus is higher, their network probably isn't as large so they don't have people out in the middle of nowhere with incredibly slow internet speeds pulling the average down.
Jasper Avenue
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I'm with Shaw and get an average of 70 mb/s in Edmonton. I think the rural communities bring the average down quite a bit.
Even in the cities, we're just now catching up. 28/1 mbps was basically the ceiling for most, but thankfully we can now embrace our 150/10 mbps future. As it rolls out.. slowly.
It's a fair comparison to the US, who has an even larger rural / urban population split.
At the low low price of >$100/month.
DJ_Lae
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Yeah, I love the idea of having faster internet, but the prices are ridiculous.
I'll stick with 25mbps until the 100mbps+ speeds become reasonably priced.
Well, having the option to pay for it is a start. Five years ago those speeds would have seemed like a pipe dream for the cost they're charging. It's not like most will benefit from 100mbps anyway, so they can stick with the lower speeds.
Slightly off topic: My in laws are hilarious, in that they refuse to budge from their 25gb cap with Rogers, even though they come up against the cap (frequently going over) every money. The last week of the cycle is basically 'can't use the internet, we're at the limit' ever month. All to save few dollars it would take to go up to the next tier.
The new speeds should be replacing the top tier and everything else moves up one. They shouldn't be constantly creating more expensive tiers.
I live in Vancouver, and my experience with internet providers has involved high prices, low bandwidth caps, inconsistent service/coverage and very far from spectacular speeds. It certainly doesn't feel top-tier.
Most of Canada's population(80% in 2006) is in the cities. Link
Our internet has been stagnant for the last decade
Too logical.
We live in a country where politicians buy into Bell's "data is a resource akin oil and water" and should be regulated, capped and handed out at premium prices. Those were some great CRTC meetings when Bell kept hammering that home.
I would be much happier with a more reasonable pricing structure, but I don't expect it. I'm just happy they're offering better speeds right now. One battle at a time.
That list of speeds would be interesting to see if they showed only 50,000+ population versus the whole country. I live in a town of 1500 and am not more than 15km away from places that can't get cellular reception or anything above dial-up. Its annoying, but there is still a large percentage of this country where it isn't economically viable to have a fast infrastructure. It also doesn't help that most people in this area are old and don't give a shit as long as they can load pictures of their grandkids on Facebook.
I think this is the average for how fast people are streaming from Netflix, not necessarily the average speed that people could be streaming at if they were maxing out their Internet connections. Movies are only encoded at certain bitrates, so people will tend to stream at a lower bitrate than their maximum possible, and people with really fast Internet will easily stream the highest bitrate Netflix offers. Plus in Canada we've had the option to limit our bitrate with Netflix, and I'm not sure if Netflix ever got around to offering that option elsewhere.
MrBambinoDent
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This is ridiculous, most Europe are ages ahead of us in terms of both speeds and prices.
Still you have to blame our small population a bit here, the cost per capita has to be higher than the states for example.
Still you have to blame our small population a bit here, the cost per capita has to be higher than the states for example.
I'm sure this has a lot to do with it... on all fronts. I'm a former Shaw user, now with Telus. I find Telus generally faster -- but more importantly more consistent in terms of speed. Surely Shaw is faster on its higher-rate plans.
Doesn't surprise me that the eastern ISPs, which seem to have firmer bandwidth restrictions see slower rates, either, as I presume users are limiting bitrates.
Regarding the urban/rural split, I dunno... not like Telus isn't serving smaller communities in B.C./Alberta/Sask.
Hero of Legend
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Toronto GAF: Zellers at Lawrence West and Dundas West are clearing out. Didn't buy any games (gotta save up) but I did see some good stuff at Lawrence West including:
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Metroid: Other M (define good XD)
SSX Blur
Nintendogs DS: Chihuahua and Dalmation and Friends
Action Replay for GC
Rabbids Go Home
Glory of Heracles
No More Heroes 2
Odama GC
Crush 3D
That's what caught my eye, all are 60% off, Nintendogs were down from $40 at $15. Really hoped they had Lab and Friends.
SSX Blur I'm very tempted, I don't have my Wii on me but it'd be good to store away for when I get it back, I've been really wanting it, looked in good enough shape (shrink-warped with the bilingual manual, but the sleeve looked perfect, I might go tomorrow for it).
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Metroid: Other M (define good XD)
SSX Blur
Nintendogs DS: Chihuahua and Dalmation and Friends
Action Replay for GC
Rabbids Go Home
Glory of Heracles
No More Heroes 2
Odama GC
Crush 3D
That's what caught my eye, all are 60% off, Nintendogs were down from $40 at $15. Really hoped they had Lab and Friends.
SSX Blur I'm very tempted, I don't have my Wii on me but it'd be good to store away for when I get it back, I've been really wanting it, looked in good enough shape (shrink-warped with the bilingual manual, but the sleeve looked perfect, I might go tomorrow for it).
SniperHunter
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damn futureshop still hasnt shipped god of war ascension
Just got my shipping confirmation email. Hopefully it's waiting for me when I get home tomorrow.
Do you live in London?
Sudbury.
If it makes you feel any better, you convinced me to order a copy with that EB trade-in deal.
CrazyGameTime was the site I used to use for MS Points.
That's exactly why the numbers are so low. When you sign up for Netflix, the default quality setting is set on the lowest, so unless you change it you'll only be using 300MB per hour of viewing. If everyone switched to the highest setting, which uses something like 2.3GB per hour, the Mb/s numbers would of course be a lot higher for each ISP. But until we no longer have usage caps, I don't see that changing.
God of War Ascension is coming today. I have no interest at all in the game but pre-ordered because E3 or something. I was hoping to gift it but no one seems interested so I'll probably just return it.
I was planning to also return Tomb Raider. But I'm starting to think maybe I should keep it. I didn't want anything to do with it because of the death scenes I saw on Conan. Watching someone slowly die gives me nightmares. Has anyone here played the game? Is it as bad as that scene in Conan's "review"?
Also, there's a small sale with P4 Golden ($33.79)
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B007W8S2MG/
I think someone was asking about where to find the game in this thread not too long ago?
I was planning to also return Tomb Raider. But I'm starting to think maybe I should keep it. I didn't want anything to do with it because of the death scenes I saw on Conan. Watching someone slowly die gives me nightmares. Has anyone here played the game? Is it as bad as that scene in Conan's "review"?
Also, there's a small sale with P4 Golden ($33.79)
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B007W8S2MG/
I think someone was asking about where to find the game in this thread not too long ago?
SniperHunter
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If you like the Uncharted games, you will love Tomb Raider. But yea, there are some violent scenes in this game, it's not a comedy like Uncharted. So if you don't like violence, stay away.
You just missed Walmart's sale for 3DS XL last week @ $159. I'm sure there will be more sales like this in the coming weeks.
The perk is being able to use your optimum points to offset the cost. Are you getting one in time for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate? Otherwise I would wait for a redemption day.
You should buy it, but keep it unopened so you can return it if there is a new deal for the upcoming week.
They just did a redemption event on the weekend so there probably won't be another for a couple months. If you're not doing a $170 redemption for it though, there is a coupon to get 18500 bonus points when you spend $75 tomorrow. It's posted on the Smartcanucks.ca forum if you haven't signed up for the SDM e-mails.
This kinda goes back a page but SDM having Mario Tennis for $20: Was that at the same time OOT was $20 because I have been trying to hunt it down and I finally found one but it rang up at $39.99.
Anyone know if it was just temporary or if some stores just have different clearance stuff?
Anyone know if it was just temporary or if some stores just have different clearance stuff?
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