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Originally posted by smuncky for dsl go with teksavvy www.teksavvy.com u wont find better tech support anywhere. and for 30$ unlimited is a good deal. the only catch is that u better hope u have a good connection and aren't far from a CO. i suggest u give them a call and see how far u are from a CO by giving them ur address. they'll be able to find out if you might have a good or bad connection.

heard lots of good things about these guys.. anyone know if they throttle?

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Originally posted by dEsidEL heard lots of good things about these guys.. anyone know if they throttle?

no. but again, their service can only be as good as the quality of your line. so if you're far away from the CO, there's really not much they can do. although i have read before that if there is a stinger or a remote close by, they might be able to move u there, if bell actually does it.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Anyway, you really can get those speeds from Rogers, just not on Torrents. But torrents are always slow because half of your bandwidth is getting munched by the protocol itself.

its all about usenet.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Rogers is not worse than Bell. Nobody is worse than Bell. Ted Rogers could walk right up to my front door, ring the doorbell, and piss on my shoe, and Bell would still be worse.

+1

Fuck Bell.
Emily is a whore.

i can download at 800-900 kb i have rogers at my apt. works great!

woohoo...i woke up this morning at 6am and i was downloading at 250kbps last night

My e-penis is 10".

I you that years ago. I used to love how my 'highspeed internet connection' gave me 0.5 kb/s on torrents. 100 seeds, 20 peers and blazing speeds of 0.5 kb!

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/ is a good resource in finding out which isp is best for u. As far as bandwith throttling...news to me, i've been with cogeco and they recently suspended my account,, when i called i thought for sure they were going to warn me about my bandwith usage but it turned out to be spam warning. I don't have any spam on my computer and I regularly re-install my os every 4-5 months. I don't understand why they did this to me. Suposidly you get 3 warning for going over your bandwith limit , then ur banned indefinately. I would say it might be a good thing to go back and fourth between dsl & cable to confuse the isp's and make urself un-noticeable. Has anyone used bitTorrent seeding from their isp'svpn??, i heard that u can do that and it increases ur up speed.

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Originally posted by chinamon its all about usenet.

Fuckin sympatico's retention rates sucked! Now they don't even have ANY support for usenet. It's a dying beast in Canada.

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Originally posted by geroin i believe it is the fastest internet connection available in ON or canada for residential area, it is not an extreme, just normal connection they provide, more info on http://www.aci.on.ca rogers i think is about 5mbps aurora cable only works in aurora/king city area, it's basically a little square of land that they provide connection to here is the coverage area http://www.aci.on.ca/images/aci_service.area_map.jpg

Yup... I use ACI and live in Aurora, and at 9MBps. Sometimes it's screamin fast, others meh.

My torrents go in the mid-high hundreds SOMETIMES, and only if I disconnect my router and turn off firewalls (spent too much time trying to tweak it so I said f-it). It's great to see xbox games flow in in a few hours, but not consistant.

I pay the price though... $60 with tax and rental (bc I don't have cable TV to get another 10 buck discount)

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Originally posted by Orko Fuckin sympatico's retention rates sucked!

i called up retentions and they gave me $30/month for 12 months taxes in. this includes the wireless modem rental and unlimited bandwith usage.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur My e-penis is 10".

You must have a dial-up connection if that's the biggest one you could download. The average broadband e-penis is 32 km.

Rogers Light.

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Originally posted by smuncky no. but again, their service can only be as good as the quality of your line. so if you're far away from the CO, there's really not much they can do. although i have read before that if there is a stinger or a remote close by, they might be able to move u there, if bell actually does it.

Bell and resellers of Bell facilities get access to the remotes... AFAIK companies who run their own SLAM out of the CO do not (Rogers doesn't for sure).

anyone considering dsl should call into their telco and drum up a story to get them to run a test on the phone loop... it will report back the length +/- 200 or so metres... will also isolate some nasty line conditions like ground/battery/high resistance opens that will screw dsl signal but often not affect voice service (and as such doesn't get noticed)

sign the petition to save net neutrality here

and boycott Bell and Rogers

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Originally posted by exstasie Download: 360 kB/s Upload: 0 kB/s

Yea, what a bloody joke!

Im still with bell, and I can still seed right up to 80KBps if I wanted to.

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Originally posted by Orko Im still with bell, and I can still seed right up to 80KBps if I wanted to.

+1

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Originally posted by DigiNut Ted Rogers could walk right up to my front door, ring the doorbell, and piss on my shoe, and Bell would still be worse.

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Originally posted by chinamon its all about usenet.

i miss my usenet days. i should resume them again... torrenting just seems easier, but the results alwasy end up being better for me with usenet, and its not that difficult.

i hate when shit wont repack propertly though. so frustrating... man, id hafta figure out all the programs i used to use too...

exciting.

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Originally posted by chinamon its all about usenet.

pm me the good groups plz?

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Originally posted by Abercrombie pm me the good groups plz?

just get a good prog (forget which i used) and do searches.

no real need to know the groups, unless ur just looking for misc things ppl have listed.

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Originally posted by smuncky i called up retentions and they gave me $30/month for 12 months taxes in. this includes the wireless modem rental and unlimited bandwith usage.

Ah...maybe we are thinking of different things? I was talking about retention for usenet...as they only kept messages for a day or so. Now they don't support it for free.

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Originally posted by Orko Ah...maybe we are thinking of different things? I was talking about retention for usenet...as they only kept messages for a day or so. Now they don't support it for free.

ah my bad. i thought u meant retentions as the dept that tries to keep the customer. my apologies.

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