OT: Internet at home without active phone line

[Dave M. Sullivan]

I have TekSavvy, and I'm paying $41 a month flat for dry loop DSL.
That's with their Premium ($29.95/mo) plan. And it's only $19.95
installation fee.

I'm pretty sure these are your only options for broadband Internet access.

Hope this helps!

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:33 PM, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
<arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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