OT: Internet at home without active phone line

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 8 20:39:40 UTC 2009


On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Both have been quite reliable but Rogers in particular has 
> been annoying me. They charge a premium and have the audacity 
> to arbitrarily change the terms of service by imposing 
> bandwidth caps.

Bell did the same thing with their Internet service.

> I'll take door number three, a new provider, thanks. While I'm 
> at it, I figured I'd look at everything, phone, mobile, 
> Internet, and TV.

Well, thanks for sharing!

> 3Web's tech support seems dodgy from what I've read about it 
> but if the service is as reliable as Rogers, you won't need it 
> very often.

Well, from what I heard - including looking at some personal 
friends experiences - 3Web support is really bad, even worse 
than Bell.

> Acanac offers DSL service for $227.40 for one year, including 
> taxes, plus $8/month for the dry loop. They include 100GB of 
> on-line storage. Again, I've read varied things about Acanac, 
> none of which really scare me since people say the same things 
> about Rogers or Bell too. The caveat with these guys is that 
> if you want the best deal, you'll have to prepay for a year.

The scary part of prepay is whether the company will keep its 
service quality for that whole year, or in some cases whether 
the company will stay there at all.

> If you just want to go month-to-month, TekSavvy, which seems 
> to have quite a fan club of customers, seems like a better 
> choice.

TekSavvy seems to learn that spend a little time to give better 
support goes a long way into customer loyalty. :-)

> Primus has a bundle of home phone, long distance, and DSL 
> Internet for $64.95. One of my brothers uses them and is happy 
> with them.

Maybe old price? It seems to be $74.95 now. Considering I don't 
need long distance that much, this actually more expensive.

> They're apparently uncapped but I have no idea if they're 
> subject to Bell's traffic shaping.

Should be.

> I'm looking at two connections as RAIN (Redundant Array of 
> Inexpensive Networks). Of course there is the 
> not-so-insignificant matter of the phone and cable service 
> coming into my home via overhead wires that are separated by 
> only a few feet after running a gauntlet of trees with 
> overhanging branches.

If you want reducancy, probably better if one of the connection 
use wireless Internet (either cell or Rogers wimax), so you are 
not dependent on that cable. :-)

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