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BGrifter posted:I really need to work up the give-a-gently caress to switch to TekSavvy or something. Sadly, you'd still be giving Shaw money since TekSavvy is paying Shaw. So I guess at least you'd be giving them slightly less money?
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originalnickname posted:Sadly, you'd still be giving Shaw money since TekSavvy is paying Shaw. So I guess at least you'd be giving them slightly less money? Probably as good as it gets. 
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Mar 17, 2021 16:53
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It's better because, while some of your money is always going to go to a terrible ISP (unless you're on new fiber), at least with Teksavvy a non-zero amount of it is going towards lobbying for better internet
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I was on a black friday plan with shaw for 300 mbit / $60/mo - the 2yr valueplan ended and the price shot up from $60 to $104.. so I switched to teksavvy 150 mbit for $80/mo. While cancelling Shaw yesterday via web chat they offered $70 for the 300 plan, which would have been useful before I had switched.
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Mar 17, 2021 19:33
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When they roll out the sweet deals after you've already cancelled, I ask if they'll credit me the discount retroactively since I was clearly being overcharged.
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Mar 17, 2021 20:50
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I was pretty irked. I'll try to remember this for down the road to tell them I'm about to cancel via web chat and see what happens. Has anyone heard stuff about star link in rural areas? I have a colleague out in the sticks who says she's hearing it's better than xplornet radio/satellite e: $800 equipment fee apparently?!
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Mar 17, 2021 21:07
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Yeah, you buy the gear upfront, and it's power hungry (~100w). There's micro-outages throughout the day (basically not enough satellites/downlinks - hence why it's "beta"), but generally decent speeds when working. Trees can be annoying too. Also, it's area-locked, so basically only good for the area you register with - you can't buy one from someone and take it to your location to use. Someone's mini review from Ontario posted:Well, after working from home via VPN for a day on my Starlink, I can say it's not perfect.
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Mar 17, 2021 21:23
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$1000 once you get it installed upfront. $150 a month for service. Paid to rich billionaire Americans for outages and ok speeds to be part of the “beta”
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Mar 17, 2021 22:53
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You have to love the whole "constantly drops connection for very obvious reasons, but we hope to resolve that by having 40 000 birds in the sky"
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Mar 17, 2021 22:57
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You know what you signed up for, just give us more money and we’re gonna launch more garbage in the skies in an attempt to make our company invaluable and when it doesn’t work we’ll have the us government keep us afloat or launch an ipo and say we’re doing 10Gb/s in 3. Years once we have 100000 sats in the air and gently caress you.
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Mar 17, 2021 23:43
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So many satellites Elon will have one hand deliver your internets like a robot postman.
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Mar 17, 2021 23:56
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If Elon can deliver high speed internet pornography to the good people of Giblin island Ontario then I don't see how his plan is all bad.
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shadow puppet of a posted:If Elon can deliver high speed internet pornography to the good people of Giblin island Ontario then I don't see how his plan is all bad. All porn is replaced with Elon’s fat head
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Mar 18, 2021 03:12
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Nitr0 posted:All porn is replaced with *BUFFERING...* 
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Mar 18, 2021 03:59
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Love the service though
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Mar 18, 2021 17:45
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Like the good old days waiting for a single image to load up then it craps out and you get garbage data.
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Mar 19, 2021 19:26
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I'm moving into a brand new condo building on Saturday that has PureFibre but I'm six months into a two year Shaw contract for gigabit down/125 up that's really more like 700 down/100 up. Telus keeps calling my cell and I keep ignoring it. Next time they do I should tell them I'll switch if they pay my Shaw cancellation fees. Anyone ever managed to get them to do something like that? I think it'd be $340 to get Shaw to gently caress off right now.
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Apr 25, 2021 19:26
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They didn’t pay my cancellation fees, but I got a $300 bill credit and switched to 1gb fibre with Telus for $64/month for two years. Jokes on them, I would have paid $300 extra to never do business with Shaw again. What a truly wretched company.
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Apr 25, 2021 19:43
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Kazinsal posted:I'm moving into a brand new condo building on Saturday that has PureFibre but I'm six months into a two year Shaw contract for gigabit down/125 up that's really more like 700 down/100 up. Telus keeps calling my cell and I keep ignoring it. Next time they do I should tell them I'll switch if they pay my Shaw cancellation fees. Anyone ever managed to get them to do something like that? I think it'd be $340 to get Shaw to gently caress off right now. If you're getting TV as well, their new customer promo is currently $400 prepaid card + $100 bill credit, before any special offers they might throw at you to sweeten the deal. https://www.telus.com/en/deals-and-bundles/internet-tv-400-visa?intcmp=tcom_deals_tile_ffh_400visa Telus also tends to offer free TV/Internet for 1 year in new condo buildings if they get an agreement from the builder, so check for that as well.
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Apr 25, 2021 20:32
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https://twitter.com/annaleen/status/1386424238144245762
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Apr 26, 2021 00:48
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I hope that is the actual culprit in the photo
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Apr 26, 2021 01:34
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Tumbler Ridge is pretty much the archetype of a podunk town. Probably the most excitement they've had there in years and now that the internet is back up they can browse all the articles where it was mentioned so they have something to talk about. also: Beavers are awesome
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Yeah, Tumbler Ridge is definitely a podunk town. I worked in the area for a summer job a few years ago. The grocery store was the worst I have seen to date. I would recommend sticking to the frozen/dry food since the bakery and produce sections frequently had multiple rotting items on the shelf. I'm certain the only reason they were able to stay in business was because it was the only grocery store in town and it was a minimum 1 hour one way drive to the next nearest grocery. In 2019, they had another 15 minutes of fame when HBO hid a real world throne from Game of Thrones just outside of Tumbler Ridge. https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-hid-real-thrones-around-the-world-and-all-6-have-been-found/ Goes to show how obscure/podunk Tumbler Ridge is when HBO looked at it and figured it's a great hiding place to put one of the six thrones out of all of the possible places in the world.
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Apr 27, 2021 00:29
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I was actually surprised to hear people live in Tumbler Ridge, I thought it was turned into a ghost town when the coal mine (?) shut down. I remember stories that you could buy houses for $1 so I guess some folks took up on the offer.
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priznat posted:I was actually surprised to hear people live in Tumbler Ridge, I thought it was turned into a ghost town when the coal mine (?) shut down. I remember stories that you could buy houses for $1 so I guess some folks took up on the offer. I seem to remember they tried to turn it into a retirement/resort community after the mine shut down. But then they had huge issues with break-ins because a lot of the houses were sitting empty for more than half the year
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priznat posted:I was actually surprised to hear people live in Tumbler Ridge, I thought it was turned into a ghost town when the coal mine (?) shut down. I remember stories that you could buy houses for $1 so I guess some folks took up on the offer. Shortly after that they discovered dinosaur tracks and rode the tourism wave to a form of stability. We visited and did a lot of the hikes there (which are fantastic, by the way). There's a lot of signs that are like "We found these tracks that are millions of years old but you can't really see them anymore because they're eroding so look at this picture of them instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯". The timing of it all seems very suspicious but I suppose if you expose all the tracks they could erode away within 15 years. I think the mine might be open again now too? It seemed like there was some kind of active mine operation going on that was visible from one of the hikes. Anyone who bought a house for a buck made a tidy profit.
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Figured this would be a good place to bitch about Comcast/Xfinity getting rid of the Xfinity Connect app. Easy email access dedicated to Xfinity. They retired it with an inane explanation that they are striving to offer the best service available. I guess going through the phone browser to access email is better? Anyways....wanted to complain. Setup my email through outlook....but it was way better through the dedicated application.
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Apr 29, 2021 16:43
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Should I go with Virgin or Teksavvy? I'm in guelph.
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I just want to complain about bell, their peering sucks, I'm 19ms away from 1.1.1.1 despite it having a pop in every major city in Canada I get routed to Chicago so it can get logged by the pentagon. I setup a free aws instance in Montreal and its 14ms away from me and 1ms away from 1.1.1.1, so if I routed 1.1.1.1 though AWS I would save 4ms. I know it's a small difference but its just indicative of overall network quality and how you will get routed though America at every opportunity with bell.
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Bell dumps everything to the states because they want Canadian peers to pay them for a circuit at huge rates. (Also long distance fiber is effectively at no-additional-cost for them)
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StratGoatCom posted:Should I go with Virgin or Teksavvy? I'm in guelph. Teksavvy if you want to support companies that fight the big three in court and generally are good guys Virgin if you want to be a Bell Customer directly.
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Go with Fido if you like getting free Harvey’s chicken nuggets. I’ve enjoyed at least 8 gratis nuggets in the last few months thanks to fido perks and can honestly say it is the most chicken product an iSP has provided me dating all the way back to the dial up days of iDirect and that odd time in the early 2000s when The Simpsons was my isp.
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CRTC reversed their decision on wholesale rates. Bad news for all of us. https://www.teksavvy.com/in-the-news/2021-press-releases/crtc-decision-will-kill-telecom-competition-guarantees-even-higher-prices-teksavvy
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Telus Vult
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EngineerJoe posted:CRTC reversed their decision on wholesale rates. Bad news for all of us. buy Bell stock and cover the increased prices with your increased dividend payouts capitalism hates this one weird trick
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May 28, 2021 02:49
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Does teksavvy have a form letter I can send to Singh and my local mp yet
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CRTC being run by a former Telus exec and lobbyiest rolls back the decision. I, for one, am SHOCKED. How in the gently caress could they put someone so tainted in that position? Good job, Justin.
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slidebite posted:CRTC being run by a former Telus exec and lobbyiest rolls back the decision. I, for one, am SHOCKED. You're acting like this isn't the desired outcome by the liberals?
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Anyone here manage to get a fibre service activated in Ontario this year? I've been waiting since February for a client's service. The fibre is already run and there's an active service on another pair, but the ISP has been blaming Bell for the delays for three months.
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