OT: Internet at home without active phone line

[Dave M. Sullivan]

I get about 3.0m/800k on a 5down/1.5up account in West Scarborough
(St. Clair and Victoria Park)


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Never had a problem with the service of Teksavvy itself, but you're
> going to be limited by the service of Bell's lines.
> I live in North York near Fairview Mall, and due to Bell overextending
> their lines and just generally sucking, I can't get much better than
> 1.5/0.6 (on a 5down/1.5up account).
> You might want to check if anyone else locally has DSL internet
> service and find out if it gets decent speeds, or even ask Teksavvy if
> they've got customers in the area.
> In places with decent lines, the service is great, but the last-mile
> belongs to Bell and it tends to be a big ??? in terms of quality.
>
>
> - TJA
>
> 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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