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I cant stand rogers! I have internet extreme capped at 95 gigs. I've been consistently going over for the past few months mostly through the use of skype. At a cost of $1.50 per gigabyte i've been hitting the maximum of $50! I have too many complaints to list with this company. Are there any other internet providers u can recommend that would be able to give me high speed internet with unlimited usage?? and that is reliable, fast, no down time and the billing is consistent
 
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Been using primus for the past few years unlimited bandwidth $40/month only thing is its adsl not cable
 
Teksavvy?
 
afong56 said:
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my bro is loving this company--way faster and much higher download cap. . .

i'm not in their service area, otherwise i'd be with them as well
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300 gb cap.
 
Heard good things about acanac. They have high speed cable for good prices. U have to pay 12 months upfront though and buy the router; but I think that is kind of standard.
 
pcsourced said:
I cant stand rogers! I have internet extreme capped at 95 gigs. I've been consistently going over for the past few months mostly through the use of skype. At a cost of $1.50 per gigabyte i've been hitting the maximum of $50! I have too many complaints to list with this company. Are there any other internet providers u can recommend that would be able to give me high speed internet with unlimited usage?? and that is reliable, fast, no down time and the billing is consistent
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What kind of activity are you doing in Skype? If its regular voice calls, you can have a conversation 24 hours a day for a month and not use up 10GB Im pretty sure.

Oh well, regardless. TekSavvy (for me anyway) is faster than Rogers and has 300GB limit for less $$$. As far as speeds, my 10mbps service showed a consistent 1.1MB/sec when downloading from torrents.
 
love teksavvy, they are small enough that you can speak to some of the techs by name. i use them for home and office...great service, na dhave never hit my cap...
 
I have teksavvy cable, its awesome. 1.8mb/s download speed on torrents, and true unlimited bandwidth... I download/upload on average about 2 terabytes per month, never had a complaint. 60 dollars, which is about 1/2 of the rogers bill I used to have thanks to the stupid overage fees, and its all around faster too.
 
+1 for acanac.
New customers get a smokin' deal for the first year too - something like $20 a month, paid up front...
Been with them for 2 years, total downtime - about 4 hours in one session.
 
teksavvy. love them.
had them for a long while now, they also do my inlaws business.
 
For high bandwidth, teksavvy, acanac or primus as stated above. One of them is cheap for a year, then more money (I think primus). I went with teksavvy, but heard good things about all 3. Teksavvy may offer cable in your area if you need more up speed. Teksavvy just bumped their normal plans from 200 gb/month to 300 with no increase in price, unlimited is $5 more per month, but 300 is more than enough for me.

If you are planning on buying the 516 modem (single port, no wifi) for teksavvy, buying it at canada computers gets you a free month of internet.
 
GreyGhost said:
For high bandwidth, teksavvy, acanac or primus as stated above. One of them is cheap for a year, then more money (I think primus). I went with teksavvy, but heard good things about all 3. Teksavvy may offer cable in your area if you need more up speed. Teksavvy just bumped their normal plans from 200 gb/month to 300 with no increase in price, unlimited is $5 more per month, but 300 is more than enough for me.

If you are planning on buying the 516 modem (single port, no wifi) for teksavvy, buying it at canada computers gets you a free month of internet.
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Don't buy that modem!!! That's a DSL modem, not for cable service. Buy one of the SB's with Teksavvy. I've been using the 51-series without any issues, even with speed boost (which is a thing of the past for me as I'm running QoS on my router).
Of the 3 I heard that TSI (Teksavvy) is the best because they learned from their mistakes and built out real robust backhauls, so congestion will be less of an issue than with Acanac/Primus (and especially 3web). Acanac has been makin some improvements but I'm not sure if they're there yet.
 
Been with Acanac since they started up. Currently have 4 dsl lines running MLPPP, all on dry loops. Now if I could just bell to move all those dry loops over to the fibre connections they have at the CO........
 
bear22099 said:
Been with Acanac since they started up. Currently have 4 dsl lines running MLPPP, all on dry loops. Now if I could just bell to move all those dry loops over to the fibre connections they have at the CO........
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They all are on those connections.. It's just that Bell doesn't allow anything over 5/800 for resi and 6/800 for biz customers.. Last time the independents fought for speed-matching, it came with UBB and AVP (Usage-Based Billing and Aggregated Volume Pricing/Alien Vs Predator a.k.a. Bell double-dipping with insane markups on the 2nd dip). There should be proper speed matching as soon as the UBB/AVP mess gets sorted out.

By the way, if you have been using the OpenWRT/MLPPP platform that Caneris and Acanac have been working on, just wait for the new version that's being worked on.. It will have some insane tweaks to the MLPPP code that will involve major improvements to speed and reliability. I can't tell you more before it comes out but it'll be worth a flash. I don't work for Acanac, but I have done some release candidate testing (ahh the privileges of being an early adopter).

Being able to bond 4 lines without any glitches, I'm assuming you're on Netgear? While I'm pretty sure TP-Link can handle it, WNDR3700 has a much faster processor (680MHz as opposed to 400) and twice the RAM (64 as opposed to 32MB).
 
lol skype, good one .. you don't need to justify your internet useage on gtam but come on do you expect us to believe you used 95gigs a month on skype .. just admit ur downloading porn torrents
 
Petraeus said:
lol skype, good one .. you don't need to justify your internet useage on gtam but come on do you expect us to believe you used 95gigs a month on skype .. just admit ur downloading porn torrents
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Streaming video can eat up a lot of bandwidth.. My wife streams about 80GB a month and that doesn't count my work usage (lots of stuff over VPN including hours a day of VoIP) and of course torrenting the occasional "Linux distro".. All in all, easy 200-250
 
VoIP is chump-change... how much can it possibly use to transmit crappy audio? 50kbps?

Video is a different ballgame obviously. Im with teksavvy now and will download more freely, but even with Rogers I was hardly coming up on the 95gb limit. Usually hovered around 70, but I also stopped myself from downloading the occasional 720p movie here and there because of the limits. No more!
 
mmmnaked said:
VoIP is chump-change... how much can it possibly use to transmit crappy audio? 50kbps?

Video is a different ballgame obviously. Im with teksavvy now and will download more freely, but even with Rogers I was hardly coming up on the 95gb limit. Usually hovered around 70, but I also stopped myself from downloading the occasional 720p movie here and there because of the limits. No more!
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We should rebel. Download what u want, when u want!
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