Fucking BELL Sympatico!!!!

[newguy27]

As a guy who works for one of those "smaller ones", I'd think again. If you're going with DSL and you live in a Bell serviced area, you're going through Bell's outside lines. These smaller companies rent the lines from Bell at a discount and there is not much of a guaranty of the quality of the loop. They have to rely on Bell to fix any metallic problems that are outside. For example, you have problem with your DSL. You call ABC telecom to complain. The trouble ticket goes through their process, ie, testers, field techs. They find that the trouble is in Bell's part of the circuit. They have to call Bell and open up another trouble ticket and the process starts all over again.

Trust me. I hate Bell too, but if you're going to be using DSL why go through a middle man?

THanks for the input..starting to seem like another of those situations where were are all screwed either way.

 

[excorrigere]

Rogers Phone?

Alright let's FUCK Bell over, switch to Roger's Phone (their long distance plan is pretty damn good), use Rogers Cable Internet and Digital Personal TV, and yup, Bell would be up shit's alley!

 

[zzap]

To make things even better Rogers just upped there Extreme speed to 6 Meg downloads. It was 5 megs before... the upstream speed has gone from 800K to now 1000K.... lets see Bell try to beat this!!

As for Phone I'm using Vonage now .... it's got the best pricing... better then Rogers Home Phone. Vonage just connects to my Rogers Modem through my Router. The service is perfect... you can't tell the difference... it sounds even better then Bell.

I was spending over $80 a month with Bell for just one line not including long distance. With Vonage I spend only $40 and I can call anywhere in Canada and the USA free and over seas rates are way cheaper.

Thailand cost per minute...
only 11 cents per minute on Vonage,
33 cents on Rogers, and
the crooks at Bell... $2.29 per minute days and $1.79 nights... where do these fuckers get off charging so much?

look for yourself .....,
http://vonage.ca/intrates.php

http://www.shoprogers.com/store/cable/ld.asp?

http://www.bell.ca/media/en/jsp/con...stance/baserates/pdfdocs/br_international.pdf

 

[GIMME]

Alright let's FUCK Bell over, switch to Roger's Phone (their long distance plan is pretty damn good), use Rogers Cable Internet and Digital Personal TV, and yup, Bell would be up shit's alley!

Would love to. but Rogers is Sprint, and I just can't stand Sprint.

 

[GIMME]

I'd switch to Rogers but they have that stupid dumbass 100 Gb cap.
I'll probably go over 100 the first day

Doesn't Bell have a 60GB CAP?

 

[Esco!]

Doesn't Bell have a 60GB CAP?

I think they do but they dont enforce it

 

[Keebler Elf]

They had a cap (which counted both upload and download) for about 6 months and then got rid of it; I think b/c of complaints and loss of customers to competition. You can still track your traffic but there are no additional charges for "excess" usage.

 

[Tower]

I've had Look DSL for over a year now. Works like a charm for me. Apparently it's still sympatico DSL, but purchased in bulk and resold. Still cheaper for me.

www.look.ca

Happy surfing!

 

[Cobster]

Bell sucks.
I worked for them.
They're evil and even screw their own employees.
You should see the stuff they say in training, regarding, dealing with customers.

 

[canucklehead]

I'm thinking about switching to a smaller company.
Does anyone have better experiences with the smaller IP's????

Look has a 59 dollar package i am presently looking at as i use Bell Ultra at home and my studio provider all stream does not do residential.
The one thing i found cool about Look was i could get a static IP and they allow smtp, ssh and vpn ports to be left unchecked.
I was at a clients that was able to VPN into work all the time and now cannot from their Rogers account but can from my studio and my house. I tried his place with my laptop as i was able to get mine to connect from my house but at his place the VPN client makes the AWK but nothing after that ..... i cannot even telnet over the VPN ports ..... Rogers is blocking a lot of ports lately.
Sympatico just does not give a shit....

 

[Papi Chulo]

Little extra info. Most of the tech calls are answered in India and that's no joke. Most CSR operations are being outsourced to companies in India or Pakistan. What a load of shit.

Primus admitted to me via email that they have a call centre in India

 

[Kang]

I'm sure they appreciate the timely reply!

 

[Horney_Senior]

Where I live we`re stuck with Cogeco cable instead of Rogers. Whenever I would call to ask about internet for my area they`d say that they hoped to have it available sometime within a year. They`ve been saying that since 2000. Mr. Rogers, please buy them out.

Rogers already owns Cogeco.