content: American vs Canadian Internet We've all heard (or experienced) the dreadful corporate hug on internet services in North America. The fact is, we have some of the worst internet speeds and reliability compared to anywhere else on the planet. And while I (being Canadian) have it slightly better than my southern neighbours, the local "bigshot" ISP in my area just forced the little guy that I'm with (grandfathered plan) to increase it's rates by about $15 per plan. I was lucky and got into a plan with a company called Juce here in my city before a lawsuit went through by Shaw Communications Inc. In order to force Juce to reduce their speeds and up their prices from 25mbps / 2mpbs for $40/m to 20mbps/1.5mbps for $56.95. Having said that I do get to enjoy Unlimited Bandwidth, Unthrottled Service, and enhanced security (I don't get my information sold, the only thing they record my activity by is my IP address) Still, is there anything that us every day folk can do to help us get the internet we're paying for?