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Jesus 70 gigs of bandwidth a month, I bet rogers gave you enough of a high speed connection that you could blow through 70 gigs in no time so they can ding you with overage charges.
I just signed up with carrytel a month ago, http://www.carrytel.ca/internet-plans.aspx#
The current $50/m deal used to be $40 a month ago and that was the deal I got, 50/10 unlimited bandwidth. Their current $35 plan is a very good deal.
So far, I am not very happy with their internet, internet goes down once every 2-3 days, I have not yet had the time to deal with it. I think the problem is with the install or the modem they supplied, my guess is that their modem is garbage.
When my new internet is working the speed I get is 45/7 which is pretty close to the promised 50/10.
Prior to carrytel I was with teksavvy, I was with teksavvy for 5-6 years and I never had any problems, I switched because the carrytel deal they had a month ago was too good to pass up. Even carrytel's not as good 25/10 @ $35/m would have been enough to lure me away from teksavvy.
Prior to teksavvy I was with rogers for almost a decade, I switched away from rogers not because of the service or price, rogers would always call me every other day during the most inconvenient time to offer me this deal or that deal, I told them over and over to stop calling me. One week I got called every day, I told the asshole that if they called me again I would switch my cable and internet service to another provider, the next f*cking day they called me again with the same offers, I immediately told the asshole to connect me to the department in charge of cancellations and I got rid of rogers.
Bell is not walk in the park either, when I had a bell phone line, they would call me every other week with this offer and that offer even after I told them to stop calling me with offers, they kept calling so I switched from a landline to VOIP.
If Rogers or Bell offered me free service, I would not accept it, just not worth the aggravation of their daily offer calls.
I just signed up with carrytel a month ago, http://www.carrytel.ca/internet-plans.aspx#
The current $50/m deal used to be $40 a month ago and that was the deal I got, 50/10 unlimited bandwidth. Their current $35 plan is a very good deal.
So far, I am not very happy with their internet, internet goes down once every 2-3 days, I have not yet had the time to deal with it. I think the problem is with the install or the modem they supplied, my guess is that their modem is garbage.
When my new internet is working the speed I get is 45/7 which is pretty close to the promised 50/10.
Prior to carrytel I was with teksavvy, I was with teksavvy for 5-6 years and I never had any problems, I switched because the carrytel deal they had a month ago was too good to pass up. Even carrytel's not as good 25/10 @ $35/m would have been enough to lure me away from teksavvy.
Prior to teksavvy I was with rogers for almost a decade, I switched away from rogers not because of the service or price, rogers would always call me every other day during the most inconvenient time to offer me this deal or that deal, I told them over and over to stop calling me. One week I got called every day, I told the asshole that if they called me again I would switch my cable and internet service to another provider, the next f*cking day they called me again with the same offers, I immediately told the asshole to connect me to the department in charge of cancellations and I got rid of rogers.
Bell is not walk in the park either, when I had a bell phone line, they would call me every other week with this offer and that offer even after I told them to stop calling me with offers, they kept calling so I switched from a landline to VOIP.
If Rogers or Bell offered me free service, I would not accept it, just not worth the aggravation of their daily offer calls.
I consider rogers to be thieves and their monopoly is finally being broken
I have switched my smart phone over to mobilicity for half of what rogers charged
it is a good deal as long as you do not use it outside of greater metro because of additional roaming charges
teksavy seems like a possibility
I think I do not need tv with good internet , connect my internet to my big screen and watch movies and docs on Netflix
Netflix is ok, there is more content on netflix for the average joe than cable TV offers, it is just that cable TV is more convenient in the sense that you can just flip through channels until you find something that is palatable.
Canadian Netflix is pretty crap compared to US netflix, there are easy ways to trick netflix into thinking you are a US viewer and get access to a much larger library of videos.
Canadian Netflix is pretty crap compared to US netflix, there are easy ways to trick netflix into thinking you are a US viewer and get access to a much larger library of videos.
It used to be easy to trick Netflix, but I haven't found a set of DNS servers that work lately.
As for an ISP... I've been using Primus for a bunch of years now. No download limit, and speed is very good.
You can get a cheap VPN service, they are usually $20-$50 a year, you do not even need a good VPN just a crappy one that is good for 5-6 mbit.
One thing about carrytel is that for some reason they assign you a US IP, you can request a canadian IP and they will get one for you, so on carrytel you get US netflix without any effort. Right now my ip shows up as located in LA and I never asked for a US IP.
One thing about carrytel is that for some reason they assign you a US IP, you can request a canadian IP and they will get one for you, so on carrytel you get US netflix without any effort. Right now my ip shows up as located in LA and I never asked for a US IP.
Read a lot of these reviews on the competition and while it seems that there is competition, it looks to be a grand illusion. There are a lot of complaints about the competition ISP that many customers experience drops in service or outages more often than BELL and ROGERS. Also because the competition uses Bell And Rogers infrastructure. So you get what you pay for.
Yes, underneath it all everyone uses the same rogers/bell infrastructure, so a large part of money you pay to a non rogers/bell ISP goes directly into the bank of rogers/bell. With that said, it is still better to go with a non rogers/bell ISP as rogers/bell will make much less money off you and your monthly bill will be lower along with a higher bandwidth allowance.
I was considering them, do you have personal experience with them? Their website was confusing and I couldn't figure out if I would actually save money or not...
Read some of the reviews and do research. A lot of service disruptions it was I found and other complaints. I don't get many service disruptions with Rogers.
http://www.canadianisp.ca/cgi-bin/isp_comment_totals.cgi?f=Comments&ispid=257
Rogers and Bell are making more $$$$$ by renting/leasing out their infrastructure to the competition. So it looks like there is competition but really is just a masked monopoly. What we need is a big telecom like Verizon to come to Canada and put in it's own infrastructure but I think the CRTC won't allow it being the CRTC are former Bell and Rogers execs.
