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Martytoof posted:Ugh. Does anyone have a decent form letter I can expand on? Every time I start writing I just get angry and belligerent. I'm not even an angry guy, but I can't put two coherent sentences together without throwing in angry language. I did the same thing. I started up cool and coherent, but ended in disaster.
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Holy poo poo this guy hasn't got a leg to stand on. He seriously has no idea what he's talking about.
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Feb 3, 2011 23:08
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"Why don't business users follow the same example?" BAM! Left hook from the democrats
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Feb 3, 2011 23:12
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"Why do we have caps and lovely internet and other countries don't?" Bam, right hook from the Liberals.
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Feb 3, 2011 23:22
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"Skype won't affect the cap because Skype doesn't do streaming video" Wow, ok, seriously, what?
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Feb 3, 2011 23:25
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Ok, so listening in on that, Baron von Cappenstein obviously has no idea what he's talking about. This ought to create some awesome feedback before the next session.
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Feb 3, 2011 23:28
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JayBulworth posted:For the Montreal goons out there, what about ADSL2+? http://www.colba.net/main.php?lang=en&cont=&choix=&webmail= Why didn't I know there there was independent ISPs running ADSL2+ in Montreal? Why is there so little advertising for it?
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Feb 5, 2011 13:28
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JayBulworth posted:I didn't know about it until a co-worker told me about them myself. I'm not sure why there is so little marketing about them out there either. I think I'm going to switch when my current ISP contract runs out in April. Let me know how it goes. The thing I love about Teksavvy is that they have no contract, so it's hard to go with them since you're committed for a year.
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Feb 5, 2011 21:44
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Please tell me there's a transcript of todays hearing. I'd be very interested to see what was debated.
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Feb 9, 2011 01:11
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Nomenklatura posted:Not happy about this setup. Bell and Shaw being able to speak last gives them a MAJOR advantage for swaying the committee. Despite the setup, this is a really good panel so far. They're definitely grinding in the fact that a cost based wholesale market would be more competative, not a retail minus
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Feb 10, 2011 22:41
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More proof that Macleans is the worst magazine of all time http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/18/the-internet-should-be-fair-not-free-to-everyone/ I especially enjoyed this part: quote:At issue is the ability of Internet carriers such as Bell Canada and Rogers Communications (the parent company of Maclean’s) to establish usage-based billing... The comments are awesome.
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Feb 19, 2011 14:54
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5mb Teksavvy in Montreal, no problems whatsoever. My DNS is set to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. I found googles DNS to be quite bad around Montreal (404ing random websites/images and slow performance). This one I found searching for "teksavvy dns" and it's worked 100% perfectly.
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Mar 21, 2011 23:27
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Bonzo posted:Again, I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure Bell is just going to "flip a switch" on the outside box. When they did it for me they just quietly slipped a work order between my front doors and I had idea they had been there. They came twice for me. Took 2 weeks to get phone set up, and another week for DSL.
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Not even a month into the new government, and Harper is already wanting to remove our online rights. http://openmedia.ca/blog/proposed-crime-bill-makes-anonymity-and-hyperlinks-illegal-canada quote:Will anonymity and hyperlinks be illegal in Canada? I suck at bolding so if I missed anything relevant... Anyway, the original MacLeans article is here. Bill information is here Now again, this is from a MacLeans article, so expect it to be somewhat skewed. Migishu fucked around with this message at 08:29 on May 16, 2011 |
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May 16, 2011 08:23
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I wish TekSavvy would drop Cable lines around Montreal, instead of relying on the goddam Videotron backbone 
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May 20, 2011 19:11
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The only reason I didn't go with them is that, at the time, they wanted a 1yr contract. Guy I work with said they're pretty good.
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Jun 9, 2011 21:58
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Is there a chance that TekSavvy will ever expand in Montreal? Something greater than a 5Mbit line would be fantastic, especially since Videotron love to rape you up the rear end with cable prices.
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Jun 15, 2011 05:47
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Stanley Pain posted:Here's a tip on dealing with tech support of any sort. As someone who works in Tech Support, DO THIS. I get an amazing amount of people who don't want to follow what I'm asking, even if it's just the simplest thing, and calls get dragged on for an hour when they could've been solved within 10mins. Even if they ask for the most ridiculous thing ever, do it (I once asked a client to smell around the vents of their computer to see if it smelt weird. I was trying to diagnose why their computer would no longer turn on. Ended up being the power supply)
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Aug 5, 2011 15:53
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Is anyone on Teksavvy having issues viewing 720p or higher videos on Youtube? For the past few days, when trying to load a video, it's been lagging like all gently caress, and taking about 20-30mins to load a 7min video. It says that it's loading from o-o.preferred.teksavvy-xcm1.v3.lscache6.c.youtube.com which, when I ping it, shows an average ping time of over 2 seconds. Every other video host works fine, it just seems to be Youtube and 720p+ having issues. I checked DSL Reports and it seems that some people are experiencing a similar issue in Western Canada. Seems like Montreal are also having issues
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Aug 17, 2011 19:06
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triplexpac posted:Are you on cable or DSL? Youtube was terrible for me on DSL, but cable is perfect. DSL. It's been fine for me up until this week. I'll give them a call tomorrow and find out what's going on. Meant to call them today but hell, I have to wake up in 8hrs for work, and I haven't been sleeping well as of late (hooray insomnia!)
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Aug 17, 2011 23:41
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I'll give GoogleDNS a try, but the last time I tried GoogleDNS, I got worse pings than TekSavvy's DNS.
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Aug 18, 2011 20:14
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I got my DNS' mixed up in the previous post. It wasn't TekSavvy DNS, it was OpenDNS, and they were fine for me before. I tried to use GoogleDNS but they had the same lag issues as OpenDNS. Example: Previously it was just 720p that was causing problems, but I just tried loading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frbg732G4ts (from a GBS thread) and even the 320p wasn't loading right I just switched to 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.6 and everything's working wonderfully again. Videos now load in 720p perfectly. Thanks guys!
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Aug 18, 2011 20:51
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Problem for me ended up being the DNS. I've had no problems whatsoever since changing it. e: Try using this program to find the best DNS for your area: http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
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Aug 26, 2011 00:51
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Should open up a call center in Montreal, you could fill the place up in 5 minutes (hint hint hint)
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Sep 26, 2011 20:07
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So apparently I'm unable to get DSL2 in my area, but about 4 or 5 blocks from me, my friend is. I'm in downtown Montreal (the Pepsi Forum at Atwater), she's down near the Atwater Market. What the gently caress? Is there a way to find out which areas have been updated to DSL2?
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Does anyone know anything about how Bell is rolling out their ADSL2 lines? I checked their site to see if my area was hooked up: By phone number, it says I wasn't able to get it and only offered the regular packages. By address, it said I was able to get it. I might need to call them (or Teksavvy as I'm with them) to find out what's going on there. e: Just called Teksavvy, they confirmed that my area is now available to get ADSL2+ speeds, so I just upgraded to 16/1  Best part is, work will cover 95% of the expense! Migishu fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Dec 29, 2011 |
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Dec 28, 2011 13:42
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If I'm reading the new prices right (http://www.teksavvy.com/en/newprice.html), the 300mb packages have gone down in price. I might just call up and get 25/1 DSL now since it's now LESS than 16/1 is currently
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Jan 4, 2012 05:13
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Apparently upgrading my line from 16mb to 25mb will require me to pay the $100 startup fee again. Why? Because Bell are claiming that it's a completely different service and that they'll have to have 2 technicians sent out to have it upgraded. I call bullshit. I swear they're just trying to gently caress me out of another $100
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Jan 6, 2012 18:26
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unknown posted:Actually true - they're switching your circuit from adsl to vdsl - different gear. Yeah the Bell tech explained that to me. He was also quite confused when I said that the first tech didn't come out, even more so when all he had to do was get the bandrate updated to 16/1 profile and it all worked straight away. I called Teksavvy about this and they said that it's possible the first tech didn't need to notify me of him working, which is kinda stupid because if there was an interruption of service without prior notification, my boss would've loving killed me. Oh well, in 6 months time, if I get a nice tax return, I'll pay for the VDSL install. My internet (not installation) is still covered by work, so I've only had to pay $150 over the past year for my DSL connection, here's to the next 6 months!
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I've had intermittent connection issues over the past few weeks with my connection (Teksavvy). Every now and then the connection will completely flake out. Because I've had 3 Bell tech's come in and find problems with their service, I automatically assumed that it would be them again. I call Teksavvy, they see the line is dropping (sync issue), but asked that I test with a second modem. It's a weird request, but it's something I'm going to try next time I see my connection go bonkers. I haven't had too many problems since that call, but I still feel that Bell hosed something up.
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May 6, 2012 19:33
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Dreylad posted:I'm in downtown Montreal, I was using acanac but their rates haven't really been...competitive for awhile and I thought I'd take the dive and try Tekksavvy. Are there better options out there? I was on DSL and I'm not sure if I should switch to cable or stay with the DSL. It's certainly cheaper than what I was paying at least. Depending where you're living, you could try ColbaNet. I've heard good things about them.
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Aug 23, 2012 03:00
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Guigui posted:If the wiring itself is faulty (lots of static or lack of common ground) switching to a 3rd party provider may not help... It might be best to see if you can resolve the issue with Bell first (as they may not charge them for a maintenance visit) and then switch. This, because the second you move providers, it'll be a $99 house call if they find nothing wrong.
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Oct 5, 2012 17:38
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Opioid posted:How can they counter against the 'my wifi router isn't password protected, it wasn't me downloading that movie from this IP' argument? That raises reasonable doubt and therefore shouldn't be convicted of the crime right? Most stories I've heard are "stiff, if you don't take the time to add security to your wireless, your problem"
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Dec 13, 2012 21:54
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A dry loop is what you use when you don't have a home telephone connection and don't want to pay for a landline. It's essentially a way for them to power your home landline to the exchange. You don't need one if you have a landline phone number set up.
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Feb 2, 2013 18:13
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Don't they have a promo where the hookup is only $50 until the end of the year?
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Apr 4, 2013 07:51
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Videotron are pretty much terrible across the board. This comes to me as no surprise.
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Apr 11, 2013 16:18
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I was looking forward to getting 25/10 when I moved to my new place. With all the messing about with the DSLAM and modems and all, I'm not sure if I want to now.
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Apr 19, 2013 18:44
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Is it just me or is Teksavvy only having problems in English provinces? I've never had a problem with them in Quebec, other than really long hold times and Bell's equipment at the node being poo poo (my Internet is perfect during the winter but disconnects frequently during the summer, old lines or something)
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Jun 18, 2013 18:19
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WaffleLove posted:Goddamn you Vancouver, why did you have to go and get this drat  As much as I would love to see this be used as a ploy to lower the prices of current internet connections elsewhere, it'll never happen.
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I was getting 7/9 at some point (paying for 20/10). The way I figured out how to fix it is to hook your modem directly up to your computer before you boot the modem up. It then detected my computer's MAC address and set me back up with 20/10 again. I tried MAC cloning on my router but it somehow still got detected as a router being connected. Also, for some reason, it gave me an IP address from a server in Winnipeg when detecting my router v  v
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