OT: Internet at home without active phone line

[James Knott]

I get about 10 Mb down and 1 Mb up on Rogers.

Dave M. Sullivan wrote:
> I get about 3.0m/800k on a 5down/1.5up account in West Scarborough
> (St. Clair and Victoria Park)
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> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> 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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