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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