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Okay, so summer (effectively close as you get here in Canada ) is almost back and I'm heading back home for work and such, might be staying a bit longer too. We live in Nothern Ontario, near Thunder Bay, and currently have Bell DSL, 5/800 as best I could always tell from our speeds (Steam at it's best could siphon about 850kpbs at 2 am, and our upload can't be the worst as I hosted some smaller games' servers a couple of times and one L4D listen server that seemed to work well enough), though these were peaks and it never usually lives up to this and has frequent drops where we have no internet for about half-hour periods, usually once a day on average. So I decided that the fact that we do have a limit (120 when I last looked, but I was last living at home in Dec. 09, I'm certain their greedy asses have changed it without notifying my parents) sucks. So I checked on TekSavvy's site and they say our phone number is good for it as best they can tell. So I'm here just to get a couple nervous points out of the way before I spring it on them to switch. A. Seeing we already have equivalent DSL service in theory, our lines should be good to handle TekSavvy's service, right? B. What are their general upkeeps like, do people who use them still get dropped periods or excessively slowed speeds at peak or other hours? C. What's the setup for this like? I myself haven't owned a home to set up my own internet yet, so what's a timeframe from start to finish and how long would we be with internet, or phone service (if we lose phone seeing it's DSL)? And what would having technician's come out cost? It's not TBay itself, and is about 4 hours from there. I just don't want my parent's first impression of them to be bad. They trust me completely with any matter involving electronics or internet, but I'd like to keep this smooth. Ninja edit: Oh also, can you get House on Netflix in canada yet? Because if that and the few other shows we watch can be seen there, I might convince them to drop satellite from Bell also, my Father watches virtually no TV and my mother only a few specific shows. StealthArcher fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Apr 8, 2011 |
# ¿ Apr 8, 2011 21:47 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:57 |
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Martytoof posted:"Not available" Of course. :I Why can't they get anything good here again?
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2011 00:23 |
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Well it's nice to get all these extra ideas, but anyone have answers to my other questions?
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2011 04:36 |
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teethgrinder posted:I've been using http://www.usvideo.org to proxy US Netflix ever since someone mentioned it in the Toronto thread. It's been two months now and it's working great. What exactly is the legality of this? I'm assuming it fits a loophole as they're a registered business and all.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2011 22:14 |
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So yeah, home, trying to convince parents to switch, one problem. My father has a sympatico email he's used for 4 years, and it's tied to his business now. This is the only real block on it, so I'd like to know exactly how long after we switch will Bell cancel or if there is some way to keep it.
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# ¿ May 4, 2011 01:57 |
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The Gunslinger posted:Yeah that's definitely the way to go, I did the same thing with my father. Got him a domain name, set his reply to address in poo poo like the blackberry to the new email in case he uses the old account at all. Three months is a good enough time to pick up the important people, he can dump it after that and anyone else will probably have his phone number anyway. Fair point, he's well and willing to listen to me if I have a solution. Only problem is his contacts are horribly decentralized and in strings, word of mouth is powerful, having kept him employed, but it's also horrible to follow up with any of them who didn't wind up giving contact info.
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# ¿ May 4, 2011 03:48 |
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Alright, home issues solved (yay), new issue arises. I'm switching to University of Manitoba for one year. They do all the usual Teh Stoopid™ like having Aramark the shittiest food provider ever, so I'm going to just go an assume without having to look that their residence internet is kneecapped like crazy as well. Problem being is there doesn't seem to be a good ISP for Winnipeg in general, even looking on the canadianisp.ca site. Any Goons can help a fellow out on the search for non-poo poo internet again? (Honestly, what happened, did Homicidipeg scare them all away?)
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# ¿ May 5, 2011 20:27 |
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Sprawl posted:http://www.canadianisp.ca/cgi-bin/ispsearch.cgi?f=ShowDetail&ispid=115&city=Winnipeg&busper=P&serv_type=ALL&prov=MB It's capped, so gently caress them, I refuse to support the practice anymore.
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# ¿ May 5, 2011 22:54 |
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Sprawl posted:Okay well these guys have uncapped. Okay, no offense, but do you look at these providers before you reccomend them? It says right on their own website on the DSL page:
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# ¿ May 6, 2011 02:58 |
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Pweller posted:Wtf I didn't realize that... just checked and they have the exact same package levels as Shaw. Sucks not having any other options. 5GB each up/down Per MONTH. gently caress that. I mean good god, Alberta only gave you 1 up/down per day, but at least their IT was incompetent and I regularly got away with 20+ StealthArcher fucked around with this message at 19:16 on May 12, 2011 |
# ¿ May 12, 2011 19:12 |
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Hey an actual TSI employee We're pretty set on switching over to you guys come the end of this month (I know I said at the end of May, but I wound up being away for a week and a bit and my parents aren't touching the internet without me around) and am looking forward to a nice unlimited plan and dropping our Bell Satellite since all my mother watches is available on Global's site, and I can proxy her up some US Netflix if she wants. Also when I go to school this January I'm hoping to maybe grab some nice cable internet from you guys in Waterloo. Thankfully our number checks out here though, I was worried for a while before I tried that lil' old Fort Frances was too far gone for you guys to hit.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2011 04:00 |
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So this good ol wonderful day has come, we are cancelling our Bell internet and satellite this morning and I'll be signing us up for TekSavvy on our last two day's worth of internet this afternoon. I'm assuming when it says first month billed today that just means we'll be billed on every month on the 28th? Regardless, it'll be nice to have no caps and constantly gimped speed in some way or another.
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 16:03 |
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Lone Rogue posted:I work for Teksavvy. Yes, they will exist in a year. The only way they might not exist in a year is if the government, despite changing Industry ministers, goes head on into allowing foreign investors to come in and AT&T buys up Teksavvy for a big enough price to make a family company sell to create AT&T Canada. Even then you're going to get awesome service.* Yoooooou. What is your name. I wanted to put you down as our referrer on the presale form. EDIT: Too late mother wanted her credit card back so I had to finish up. I mentioned you in the comments anyway. StealthArcher fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jun 28, 2011 |
# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 20:52 |
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Rawrbomb posted:I dont know if its because everyone is out and being drunk, but my teksavvy speeds have gone all insane today. It's you happy Canada Day gift I suppose. Mine is we got switched over, don't have our modem yet, but I managed to get our old as poo poo SpeedStream 6520 to work with TS's network. I may have lost 2 Mbps down, but hey, 90% of the time Bell throttled it to 1-2 anyway, the consistency TS has already shown in the few hours I've been using it is incredible.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2011 02:24 |
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Despite my usual forte with fixing computers programming and such, I am stumped on how to set up the two remaining email addresses for my TekSavvy account, as we're told we get three but only have 1 so far. None of the pages or forums I've googled have anything on it, and teksavvy's help pages and customer portal only give me the option to add more as though I've already hit the limit of 3.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2011 20:12 |
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Lone Rogue posted:TekSavvy and other IISPs are wrangling with Bell, Rogers, et al about their download speed. CRTC enforced that they had to open up higher speeds so everyone is working right now about it. Bell is also trying to push something new on the IISPs called AVP: Aggravated volume pricing. It's UBB wrapped up in a neat new package which has a lot to do with losing the UBB case and now being forced to give higher speeds to the IISPs. Does this mean the plans that already exist will become faster at all, or just that new ones will pop up?
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2011 22:00 |
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Sprawl posted:Teksavvy has so many issues outside of being incompetent and not having tech thats it not even worth bothering. Anyway, LR, any idea when that 24/7 plan will be coming up? I don't think it'll be available in Winnipeg, but I'd still like to know.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 21:09 |
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Backov posted:There's a lot of angry tech support dweebs in this thread. Embrace the rage, script monkeys.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2011 21:28 |
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Martytoof posted:Here's how I imagine this going down: ftfy
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2011 04:26 |
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thexerox123 posted:But their highest tier isn't available at all to TekSavvy users yet... so, they don't have to give us access to it until the CRTC decides on pricing sometime before December 31st?
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 05:44 |
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Having congestion on TSI DSL it seems, anyone else showing symptoms? I'm on the 5/800 unlimited and I'm getting about .5/200 at the moment. I have a Static IP, so it shouldn't be throttled.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 04:14 |
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Lone Rouge, any even slightly possible chances of unlimited versions of those delicious 12/15/25 DSL pacakges coming out even in the not so near future? 5mbit is way too slow to be stuck on your whole life.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2011 06:07 |
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Okay, is anyone else honestly getting some bad throughput on TSI DSL lately? For the last four nights we've had pretty poo poo speeds, testing at anywhere from .8 to 2 mbit, when we have the 5mbit plan. We have a Static IP, so we shouldn't at least in theory, be getting throttled. For reference, we are getting our full upload of 800kbps. So it's only affecting our DL speeds and giving us quite lovely ping to anything, even Ontario based Minecraft servers.
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2011 02:53 |
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And my internet is back to poo poo again. Seems to be a night thing.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2011 04:00 |
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less than three posted:I currently have Telus ETTS Internet service in my apartment (in my old room-mate's name.) Can you sell it at all? Samart exists.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2012 05:27 |
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Pweller posted:That is quite possibly the worst haircut I've seen on a grown man. I raise you David Dees, insane political conspiracy theorist, children's illustrator, and holocaust
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2012 04:15 |
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I just set it up and it's working fine for my parents. Also, moving to Vancouver, yay. Good internet here I come.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 20:08 |
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Hey, so I just moved out to Vancouver/Richmond, looking at my apartments and stuff this week, and wanted t ask about either Distributel/Teksavvy cable. If I get the 25/2 setup, will DOCSIS 2 modems work fine? Wiki says D2 supports up to 32Mbps, but I already know how accurate '100% with no problems' estimates are.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2012 21:22 |
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DarkJC posted:If I were you I would just get a new DOCSIS 3 modem. As the wiki said, maybe a DOCSIS 2 will be just fine for now, but what if the speed of the package increases later? Just buy a solid DOCSIS 3 modem now and be set. Plus usually there's some kind of deal if you buy a modem from them at the time of activation, like a waived activation fee or something. Distributel and TS only sell a D2 modem, so off to amazon/newegg I go then. Thanks guys. EDIT: Hmm, Teksavvy's list of approved modems are all D2, this gonna cause any problems? StealthArcher fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 3, 2012 |
# ¿ Apr 3, 2012 21:50 |
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Lone Rogue posted:I know this is a thread about internet access but if someone has a Wind phone and is having problems, give me a PM. I'm working for them now and actually work in the social media department so figuring out any issues you're having is just a part of my job. Wait what. Why did you leave Teksavvy exactly?
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2012 08:08 |
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Lone Rogue posted:In Canada? Nobody. True, if I decided to have 130 a month too blow, I could have unlimited 250/25.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2012 16:48 |
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So I'm in a house with roommates, none f whom are particularly technologically capable beyond using their own stuff. We have MTS 20 (her de har, but gently caress if I'm going to sit under limits, I pull 1-2 TB a month with this 20mbps, and I'm not asking everyone else to pay up for 200 bucks for something that should be standard in 20 loving 13), and unfortunately, a lovely 2wire modem-router. Now sure, under any other circumstance, I'd grab a speedstream, burn that 2wire-pos with a propane torch in protest and set my little Asus RTN16 behind the SS in bridge. Unfortunately they also get tv from MTS. I don't believe phone service though. Only really wondering here if I shove the thing into bridge forcefully, it isn't going to cop out on our cable right?
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# ¿ May 8, 2013 11:05 |
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teethgrinder posted:WOOHOO!!! I cannot read the words that are on the screens, ignore me.
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2013 06:45 |
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37th Chamber posted:If you only use the DNS service, I've recently switched to https://adfreetime.com/ . It's only $1.99/month, 10 Netflix regions (and blocks subtitles on regions that force them), and blocks some ads. Blah, paypal only again, why does everything I look at and like suddenly not be able to take a plain credit card? My CC is blacklisted on Paypal due to a 1 dollar charge from like 2011. It's bullshit, I don't care if you like them. Shut up.
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# ¿ May 8, 2014 03:52 |
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infernal machines posted:Yes, this is a problem, but it doesn't need to be my problem. It's like every other thing they blame on the incumbents from missed service visits, to botched installs, to major network fixes that take literal weeks to resolve, if they have so little control over their own business then why am I using them? Praise be Oligopoly Oligopoly our Lord
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2015 19:11 |
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Sprawl posted:Seems fine in the lower mainland. That's 2am, you're waaaaaay out of anything approaching 'peaktime'. Try doing it again around 6-9pm your time and see then.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 09:53 |
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So, looking at who's available as options when I get my own single apartment instead of rooming. Anyone ever heard of or tried unmetered.ca?
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 09:54 |
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Sprawl posted:They look like a chinese run telus/shaw reseller given their location, service areas and tv channels displayed on that front page. Hmmph, sucks. Guess I'm limited to Teksavvy and Distributel huh? E: That really kinda sucks actually, they have a DSL option with 10Mbps Upload, which neither TS or DTel have (5 limit at each). Really could use that, though I'd like to hear their service is legit first. StealthArcher fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Apr 16, 2015 |
# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 14:42 |
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ToxicFrog posted:At least here TS has a 25 down/10 up DSL option, it's what I'm using. Where's that at? Edmonton has only got a 25/5
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 14:39 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:57 |
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Jan posted:
Heh,nope. Been living in Victoria, Winnipeg and now Eddy since then.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 14:43 |