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FibreStream looks good, never heard of them but their prices are great. Said they don't service my condo building though so it would be a no go for me.
I was in the same boat a couple months ago, sick of Rogers and constantly hitting the cap. I did pretty in depth research on all the vendors that would serve Toronto. I ended up going with Acanac because they win in almost every category.
Basically with Rogers I had:
$56 a month
60GB bandwidth
10mbps
With Acanac I now have:
$43 a month (paying upfront 6 month term)
unlimited bandwidth
15mbps
So the upgrade was win, win and more winning. When I called to cancel Rogers retention offered me an upgraded package for $46/first year, $50/second year with 90GB bandwidth and signing a 2 year deal. I just laughed at them cause Acanac was still unlimited, cheaper, and faster aside from having the joy of handing your money to an independent company instead of a beast like Rogers. And the biggest thing to be honest is that I wasn't aware, but Rogers was for sure throttling the hell out of my torrent DLs. I would be lucky to max out at 150kbps previously with their "10mbps" service. This week with Acanac I was DLing a single movie at 1.2+ mbps via torrents. A 1.5GB movie finished in like 20 minutes or so. Rogers publicly claims to only throttle your P2P uploads to 40kbps but with Acanac I regularly download at 10x what my max was with Rogers. So I don't believe that for a second and am pretty sure they throttle DLs as well.
Acanac works a bit different in that you pay for the service before you use it instead of at the end and you get a cheaper rate the more months you pay for. They also have a ton of extras if you care bout that (secure browsing, 100GB online storage, email accounts blah blah). One nice thing too is for each person you refer you get a month free as well. So if you choose to go with them feel free to use my customer ID as a referral it's "rszc6rav". Thanks in advance... 
The closest competitors I found were 3web then after them TekSavvy. Both are quite comparable to Acanac but they cost a bit more. So if Acanac aint your thing, check those 2 out. Also if you can try to go with cable over DSL. If the gov decides to impose bandwidth limits cable will be after DSL, if ever, and to some extent they will likely have to be more lenient with cable since you DL so much faster/more. Another small thing but worth mentioning is that if you go DSL and need service most of these companies will send a Bell tech to your place. So that means money for Bell and you still have to deal with their crap service and techs. For cable most these companies send one of their employees or outsource to a smaller service company.
If you really hate Rogers like I did, go for the 1-2 punch and cancel your cable as well. With a good internet connection and the ability to hook up your computer to a TV you'd be surprised at what you can stream and the quality just keeps getting better. Using plugins like Veetle you can get pretty much regular definition cable quality streaming. With some new school bunny ears too you can get all the big channels in HD which believe it or not is noticeably better quality than cable HD as the signal is uncompressed. It's a small thing but never having to see the name Rogers on a bill is freaking SWEET after being overcharged by them for so long. For all those thinking "oh I could never get rid of them completely" that's how I thought before and how they want you to think as well. Just try it for a few months and worst case scenario if you miss them you go back and sign a new subscriber deal later on for cheaper than you were paying before anyways.
Hope all that info helped. Just going off memory as I did the research a few months ago but I put a decent amount of time into and those were my findings. Hope it helps...
Last edited by GGM on May-20-2011 at 15:21
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