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odiv posted:Where do you all get your Raspberry Pis from in Canada? Just "whoever has stock"? I typically either buy from Canakit or Amazon.
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lately ive found a lot of canadian distributors have been "out of stock" unless you buy one of their overpriced kits with a bunch of poo poo i don't want. fortunately pishop.ca (formerly buyapi.ca) has been getting in stock off and on and lets you buy one at a time without needing everything else
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Feb 10, 2022 17:17
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I also used PiShop. They actually had stuff in stock.
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Feb 10, 2022 23:30
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odiv posted:Where do you all get your Raspberry Pis from in Canada? Just "whoever has stock"? pishop.ca (formerly buyapi.ca). If they're all out I'll check canakit but they usually have less availability. Sometimes I'll order from sparkfun, but that's import from the US so it's often not worth it.
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Feb 10, 2022 23:53
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Holy poo poo, ATICs clearance center is a blast from the past inside another blast from the past….pc133 ram sticks, GeForce 4 coolers, agp video cards, 10k rpm scsi drives…. I remember buying my first PC parts there back in 2003 or so, Athlon XP 2500+ and a 9600XT. It was a dingy hole in the wall with stuff piled everywhere, probably still the same today.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:01
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It’s definitely some kind of money laundering operation.
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Feb 21, 2022 00:28
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The competition bureau is going to oppose the Shaw-Rogers merger, although I have no idea how much that changes things. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-shaw-competition-commissioner-1.6445426
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May 7, 2022 22:28
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Given Rogers and Shaw territory doesn’t overlap for cable services I fail to see how it would result in decreased competition. If anything I think them merging their cable internet business might help them better compete with the Bell and Telus fiber businesses in the long run by being a bigger player and letting them get better deals on DOCSIS 4. (I’m assuming the wireless business is sold off, and I’m also not terribly well informed on this so please do correct me if I’m wrong.)
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May 7, 2022 22:54
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A clever ploy on behalf of the competition bureau to smooth the way for a Bell-Rogers merger imho.
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May 8, 2022 00:05
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2027: god I hate BeRgers!
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May 8, 2022 00:37
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I wish Telus would bring Fibre to my area, the top option is 75mbit, and yet a couple km away thr top end fibre is available. My shaw renewal is in June and trying to decide if I should just reup or maybe go teksavvy
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May 8, 2022 00:53
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Chris Knight posted:2027: god I hate BeRgers! Brodgells
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May 8, 2022 00:56
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Chris Knight posted:2027: god I hate BeRgers! Belger's coffee 
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May 8, 2022 05:56
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i liked to use tpias but ngl bell is stringing up brownfield fibre on my street and im switching as soon as it’s lit
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May 8, 2022 11:52
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Bell is bout to install fiber on my street too and I think I'll switch away from Teksavvy after over a decade of service
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May 8, 2022 11:55
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priznat posted:I wish Telus would bring Fibre to my area, the top option is 75mbit, and yet a couple km away thr top end fibre is available. I'd like to support the small independents but 
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Chris Knight posted:2027: god I hate BeRgers! 
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May 8, 2022 15:31
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Telus fiber is amazing. As long as you’re willing to sign a two year contract it’s also cheaper than Shaw or Teksavvy. (Edit: as long as you’re after 500mbps or more. They don’t offer anything like a cheap 6mbps plan for $35.)
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May 8, 2022 15:49
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They shouldn't be allowed to charge money for anything under
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codo27 posted:They shouldn't be allowed to charge money for anything under They'll argue it down to 128kbps and the CRTC will agree with them
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May 9, 2022 09:30
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slidebite posted:As much as I loathe telus and how every time you talk them ~something~ changes on the service they gently caress up the billing, but their fibre really is a good product and I have zero complaints. For a long time I was on a Telus ambassador plan due to being technically considered a legacy there (even though I don't work for the phone company) and I think it's resulted in me being treated really well by the Telus reps. Everyone I know has had horror stories with them but I've never had a single issue so there's gotta be some kind of "BE NICE GODDAMMIT" flag on my account or something. My current apartment has a fibre termination in the entrance hall closet. It rocks. The GPON SFP goes right into my switch and my firewall's VLAN interface gets an IP address off it without a hitch. I do still have to do a "listen I've been a customer for twenty years blah blah blah guilt guilt" with Mobility every couple years to get them to cut my bill in half though.
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May 9, 2022 09:48
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128kbps enough to stream all the CanCon your heart desires.
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May 9, 2022 14:59
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Is Bell fibre viewed as favourably as Telus Fibre? I've only ever heard good things about the Telus service.
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May 11, 2022 03:22
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IME their GPON service has had 100% uptime for the three years I've had it and the same for every one of my clients that have it. It's expensive, but incredibly reliable, and you get the speeds you pay for.
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May 11, 2022 03:52
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Yeah I've had Bell gigabit for 5 years, it's solid.
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May 11, 2022 11:27
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The service is solid, but the homehub (cpe box) is a crapshoot of quality. If you get weird reboots/issues, the hardware is failing and needs to be swapped out.
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May 11, 2022 11:43
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too bad with the 4000 you can’t pull out the port and plug it into your own router
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May 11, 2022 12:01
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Idk the HH3000 I've had zero problems with it
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May 11, 2022 13:23
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I'm not using my HH3K, but the people I know who have them don't run into the same issues as the HH2K had with making GBS threads itself under load or simply because it was running for more than a week. Haven't interacted with the HH4K at all though, so no idea there.
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May 11, 2022 13:39
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Chris Knight posted:Idk the HH3000 I've had zero problems with it I went through a couple (HH3k), and now have a good one and it's been rock solid, even does DFS wifi now. The guy at the bell store was talking about how basically if it works, it's solid, otherwise there's lots of weird issues - which points to really bad QA/QC in the manufacturing process. Could also tell that they were handing out refurbished gear because Covid supply lines are screwed up on new equipment.
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May 11, 2022 13:42
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That said, if you get the business service (and it's often cheaper if you do since they have more promotions on it, it seems), the ONT is a separate box entirely and you can just connect whatever you want to it on via ethernet.
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May 11, 2022 13:46
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I've been on Bell (Aliant) fibre for about 2 years with a HH3k. After an initial issue when it was first installed where I kept getting momentary connection drops every few minutes it's been rock solid. The disconnecting issue was apparently caused by a software update that didn't work quite right. Resetting to factory defaults so it could do the update properly fixed it.
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May 11, 2022 15:11
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I have bell fibre (HH3K bypassed) and it's great except it uses pppoe, no ipv6, no static ip option on consumer and the peering is pretty bad. Bell doesn't peer with cloudflare in canada so all cloudflare protected sites which includes somethingawful.com are 10ms+ slower than they should be. I'm 8ms from 8.8.8.8 but 18ms from 1.1.1.1, they should be about the same because they are both in every large city.
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Bell doesn't peer with fellow Canadian operations as a base policy - they'll gladly sell a circuit though (@ like $35/mbps last I checked a few years ago). All default routing is sent to the states (Chicago/NY/Seattle), probably for some  reasons as it crosses the border.
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