I want to make changes to my cable/internet services (currently Rogers) as I have lost one kid to Alberta and I will be losing the last one in a month of so when he moves closer to his new job in Newmarket.

I currently have the Extreme Plus package and the only reason I got it because the boys (including myself) were constantly going over the download cap of the extreme package. Now that I am down one third of the bandwidth it make sense to downgrade or change services.

Here's my questions ...

Rogers offers 4 versions of the NextBox and three of the seem to be just the Express (lower tier) Package with 3 different download caps while the last one is the Ultimate Package with the 250Gb cap ... so how sluggish is the Express Package?

And they say you need a Terminal for each TV (at $15 each). Do you have to have a box at each TV or just the ones you want to use the PVR on?

Because the PVR is hooked into the internet does it use bandwidth as well?

Talking to a Rogers CSR didn't help as these questions went unanswered or toed the corporate line. Anybody have any real world experience with this package?

I looked this one over and asked as well. I read on other forums that 250gb is not enough for internet TV so robbers being themselves are perhaps trapping you into their expensive internet pricing game. Cable is flat priced and internet is incremental. What to do - nothing yet here though I do have an HD antenna installed and unfortunately, not high enough yet. IMO I would wait out and see if a price war erupts as something has to happen price wise assuming people are scrambling to pay for the "necessities".

We had their Express package when we moved in to our new place for free for a year. Speed was noticeably slower as we came from their extreme package before the move. It wasn't terrible, but definitely slower. The other issue was we kept going over our 60GB (it's 70 now) allotment most months.

I had to pay extra for a second box at the other TV to get all the channels. Without it, I still got the basic ones though.

Can't help you with anything else as once our year was up, we cancelled everything except for the internet and now have their extreme package. Just did a speed test and it shows 29.3Mbps down (usually during non-peak times it significantly higher) and .99Mbps up. Everything we watch is online; wife usually streams all her shows and I whatever I watch, I typically download. We actually got Netflix yesterday and there's definitely some good stuff on there. The only issue is sports, but so far I found that "there's an app for that".

I had to pay extra for a second box at the other TV to get all the channels. Without it, I still got the basic ones though.


I'm curious as to when (what date) you tried your TV without a box and got channels. I would think that is disappearing, as Canada was going all digital. If your picking up channels without a set-top box, that means they are distributing an analog signal still. Rogers could be converting digital down to analog.

Feb 2011. Although I couldn't tell you exactly what channels I got.

In fact before the move I was getting from 2 to about 60 something without a box and without being a cable tv subscriber, we did have cable internet though. All channels came in perfectly.

Currently I get zilch without a box.

Yeah, that's what I thought, the analog is gone now... thanks.

Sorry. That's 2011!

Ooops, that's me that didn't notice. Forgot we're in 2012.

But again, no-one's tried it lately.

And they say you need a Terminal for each TV (at $15 each). Do you have to have a box at each TV or just the ones you want to use the PVR on?


I don't have a Nextbox 2.0, I just have the high-definition CISCO PVR from Rogers. But the answer to your first question is YES. You need a set-top box of some sort for each TV just to watch Rogers digital TV.