OT: Internet at home without active phone line

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

Hi!

I am currently looking at the options of getting broadband (ADSL 
level) internet connection at home without having active phone 
line.

The only methods I can see is using dry loop DSL or Cable 
Internet. Is there any other way?

For Cable Internet, it seems the choice is only Rogers, right? 
While apparently much better than Bell, this still a 
disadvantage of this option.

>From cost point of view - which is quite important for me right 
now - it seems that Rogers option can have a slight advantage: 
most likely no setup fee, compare to TekSavvy $39.98 activation 
+ service fee. And if I agree to 1 year contract with Rogers, 
apparently the monthly cost for Express can be as low as $35 per 
month, compare to $39.05 TekSavvy asked for High Speed Premium 
DSL + Band B rate.

Any other thought?

While at it, I has some related questions which you may have the 
answers:

- How bad is the latency of TekSavvy's Unlimited DSL? Will it 
apparent if you ssh in and run a full screen console program 
(such as pine, links, emacs, vim, etc.)?

- Anybody have experience with CIK telecom 
<http://www.ciktel.com/> ? They offer dry DSL, unlimited, for 
$479.88 per year, prepaid.

Thanks!

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