is anyone here using acanac.ca with linux ?

[Meng Cheah]

Michael Lauzon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 15:29, Meng Cheah<meng-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> Both Bell and Rogers utilize traffic shaping.
>> Third party providers like Teksavvy are subject to that.
>>
>> I am a happy customer of Teksavvy, YMMV.
>> You can do a search for "Teksavvy" at the TLUG archives,
>> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug
>>
>> Worst case scenario: Try Teksavvy for a month and judge for yourself.
>> If you're not satisfied, you're out $29.95 :-)
>>     
>
> I was with Rogers, and there was no TS going on, I could download from
> the torrent sites to my hearts content.  The only reason why I left is
> because almost every weekend my connection would drop off the face of
> the earth for about 2 to 3 days.  They even sent a tech at one point
> who stole from me when I was out of the room.
>
> So, how does this MLPPP thing work that I see people mentioning on
> here, do you get it with Teksavvy or is it something you have to do
> yourself?
>   
 From Teksavvy's email solicitation to current customers:

"MLPPP stands for "Multi-Link Point-to-Point Protocol" and gives you the
ability to "bond" multiple DSL connections together to act as one fast
connection. For example if you have 2 DSL connections at the same residence
(or business) with us you can switch to MLPPP and have those 2 connections
operate as if they were 1 big connection.

Single link connections (people with 1 DSL connection) can simply enable
MLPPP in their Windows dialer or purchase supported third party hardware.

Third party hardware is required for multiple connections bonded together."


I use a WRT54GL with Tomato/MLPPP firmware with a single link connection.

 From http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=about
"Tomato/MLPPP is a fork of the popular Tomato firmware 
(http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) for consumer broadband routers. The 
primary goal is to enable users to bond multiple DSL connections using 
MultiLink PPP (MLPPP), and/or to circumvent Bell Canada's DPI-based 
throttling by using MLPPP on a single DSL line.

Obviously, your ISP must support MLPPP in order for this firmware to be 
of any use. Currently, only TekSavvy (http://teksavvy.com) and Velcom 
(http://www.velcom.ca) are known to support this. Acanac 
(http://www.acanac.ca) and Electronic Box (http://www.electronicbox.net) 
are currently working on enabling MLPPP support, to various degrees."

You can call Teksavvy re supported third party hardware at 1 877 357 2889.


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