Gabeluci, I think I can answer a couple of your questions. I am positive you can pick up a Rogers Hub from wherever and go and snag a new Rogers Sim from a corner store then call to activate the hub over the phone. They'll take the info from the hub's sticker at the back and the Serial from the new sim and off you go. Of course you can apply for the promo plan at that point and ask about the ** asterisks.
Also if you do it this way then I'm sure your kind of coming as someone of a bring your own device sort of so conditions that apply should not apply I would think such as locked in etc.
If you do the new try before you buy thing and take one of their hubs etc then I believe from my past experience you have a set amount of days to give it a whirl. Back in my day when I did it they had that ridiculous 100Meg rule where once you went over that you were their baby from then on. LOL 100 Megs is laughable as most speedtests on LTE use over a 100 Megs to test!
Now about throttling after etc, that's a NO they don't throttle BECAUSE (I don't want to sound sinister here but) they love you to use it and at FAST LTE so you go into your overage! If your close to towers you'll scream along at speeds of up 75 Mbps down and you can really damage to your CAP fast enough especially if you have a few Windows 10 PC's that need some major updates or worse a Steam gaming client and you need a game like Battlefield to do one of it's normal 80 gig updates in the background!
That's the thing that really gets me going on this whole data cap thing is anyone living in the rural area can't even participate in gaming let alone streaming and the world throws these terms around everyday like it's normal to do these things and you are expected to do them as they look at you with deer in the headlight looks when you say I have to only play solitaire on my PC.
Regardless, you won't have throttling per the data center but you will notice slow downs if there's congestion on the network tower however at 75 Mbps it won't be that bad to slow down some.
Someone else posted a post about what are our options available to high speed and our locations. Since I originally started this thread I might as well fess up to my current situation. As of this second I'm currently using Bells Turbo Hub that is locked down to 4g (non LTE speed) at a maximum 5 Megs down/ 1 Meg upload plan. This plan has been created as a special plan to the rural area in which I live that is located East of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (40km's East) on the Trans Canada Highway area. The areas North of Sault Ste. Marie and our area East were part of a government and rural initiative to bring in Internet Access to Rural Areas and this project rose from the ashes. We receive 100 Gigs of usage on Bells towers (special access on towers only for this project) at speeds at max 5 Meg. The plan was called the BWI5 plan. The cost goes like this, 50Gigs for 50 dollars, then over 50 to 75Gigs add 5 dollars, then over 75 to 100Gigs add 5 dollars to a max of 60 dollars. After 100 Gigs each Gig over is 4 dollars.
There you have it, sorry if this fans the flames on here but I just felt that even at this point with Covid-19 happening it's still not up to standards with what the internet has become in this pandemic and the necessary need to have this access which isn't enough even though it's leaps and bounds better than regular Hub Plan costs.
It's so convoluted to have users such as myself using a Turbo Hub (same as Rocket Hub) yet our plans are all over the map for costs for access that is the same across the board everywhere in Canada yet they say it can't handle it. It's not true, there's many many people up here using over 100 gigs albeit at 5 Mbps which likely can be up to 10 Mbps and there's never an issue with service and I've had this running for a couple years! It's ROCK SOLID!
Now what I'd like to see is more access to service and I know they are waiting for Government incentives because I've been to large meetings with Government Townships, Internet Providers, Telcos where discussions are currently ongoing as to these Government programs with funding to supply the Canadian Rural areas on these programs. So yes unfortunately it'll be a cold day that Rogers alone will put a penny out of their profit and 100 percent pay to roll out towers or fiber to the node/tower to handle fixed to tower service.
It will come to you in time but know that it won't be Rogers or Bell or or or alone to be the hero that gets it to you. No it will be an incentive.
