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Originally posted by StereoPrincess Is there really a cap on download and upload on Sympatico? I have not experienced this yet.

Yes, the telco sets the RX/TX speeds on the modem. Bell (in areas with newer (<10 year old) wires uses the same modem for all packages - but just alters the RX/TX abilities of the modem.

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Originally posted by SgtFoo I got sympatico high speed!!... i love it!... very fast downloads, but uploads are for some reason capped at 30k/s or so ... the fastest download i've seen it a 20 second burst of 311k/s... fukin fast!!!!... but I also tweaked winXP to run better on sympatico. You have to have your own ethernet card... after that, they give you the modem and the software if needed. friends tell me that cable sux for internet games and multiple downloads.... much the opposite with BSHS

umm i disagree....
my cable gets me 15-20 faster latency on avg than my sympatico used to....all depends on ure area...cable can be shitty if ure in a shitty area.

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Originally posted by Endlesswave Ultra highspeed is NOT worth it. NO way in HELL will I continue to shell out the $60 a month or so for it. Cancelling as of today. Going back to reg highspeed.

hmm UHS is not that bad, getting good loading times, what's really good is the upload speed, people getting 80 k/s from me
But the nonetheless the 3 Mbps is very niiiice

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Originally posted by torontotrance I had bell and it was shit with the 5gb up and download limits which sucked ass, so I went to rogers cable and since my parents use rogers cellphones and have rogers digital cable....they got a decent deal.

they lifted the cap at the start of summer.. its great... unlimited d/l... the only limitation is u/l speed cap...

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man my sympatico is giving me shit speeds compared to everyone else

i think i might call them tomorrow and see whats up

ive measured it on lots of different sites and they're all saying about 5-600 kbps down and 120 kbps up

i live at morningside/401, and my house was built 10 years ago

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could it be the modem that im using? we're still using the original one that we got when we first got sympatico, which was years ago when they first started offering it

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There are lots of DSL companies in Toronto other than Bell, and I'd highly recommend going with one of those instead. They all use the same lines, but Bell has more stupid rules and regulations and their customer service/tech support is somewhere in between nonexistent and total crap. Honestly, don't deal with those scum-sucking bastards, use another company.

Oh and, also, I always found Bell to be quite slow. With Cogeco cable, I know I've had downstream bandwidth of around 800 kBps at times, but with Sympatico it's capped to 200 kBps (1.5 megabit), and the upload is brutal, it's capped to 15 kBps (120 kbps). ADSL is crap, although I can see VDSL being popular in the future.

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i advise bell sympatico
i can d/l at 350-400 kb/s sometimes
wayyy better than cable
plus cable went down all the time in my area

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Originally posted by Strike i can d/l at 350-400 kb/s sometimes

I don't know where you're getting that figure from, but that's physically impossible to get from a 1.5 megabit connection. The TOTAL bandwidth is 1.5 mbps, which is 192 kb/s (unless you meant kb/s as in bits, where 400 would actually be 50 kB/s, not sure if that's the case).

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max I can get with bell dsl is;
~180 kbs download
~70 kbs upload