Teksavvy Nightmare

[John Moniz]

On 04/10/2013 07:22 PM, Anthony Verevkin wrote:
>> From: "Thomas Milne" <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> I noticed that you are sending from Sympatico. Maybe you can answer
>> my actual question, which was about technical drawbacks to their
>> service. I see Bell adds things like anti-virus and so on on top of
>> the service. Those things can sometimes have some unforeseen
>> negative consequences.
>> Do you find it generally fast and so on?
> Thomas, I think I could answer your question. I have moved to the new
> apartment a month ago and found that Bell might actually be an ok choice
> for me. I like having fast Internet but I do not download much. So I
> took the Bell 15/10 package with 60GB included for $43/mo promotional, $53
> afterwards. Provided 60GB is enough for me that price was actually better
> than Teksavvy who would also have to charge for the Dry-loop (I don't pay
> that with Bell) and modem rental (Bell gave me the modem for free and
> because they mentioned it is a $100 value deal I am sure I own it now).
> And there is no contract here, just a 30-day notice.
>
> I checked the speed with iperf towards my Blink connection at work and
> I had a no-loss exchange at the speeds of 14.9/9.9 which is the way it
> should be.
>
> Bell security was also something I was afraid of but the modem itself
> does not have any more features than what a stock router would have.
> Also like with all other Bell routers you can use it in a pass-through
> bridging mode and that's what I am doing, running a full scale Linux
> router in a virtual machine which establishes pppoe session and runs
> all the firewalling, VPNs, QoS and IPv6 encapsulation and serves DHCP
> back into the router (which is acting as a LAN switch + AP at this
> stage).
>
> There was also an email from Bell with a link where I could have
> downloaded their security software for my PC, which I didn't even check
> cause I don't need it.
>
> I cannot say if they throttle the torrent traffic as I don't do much
> torrents - the only movie I have downloaded since went through overnight
> and I can't say if it was fast or not cause I was sleeping :)
>
> Overall I am fully satisfied with me going with Bell now and if you are
> not going over 60GB/mo (which is a sum of upload and download), then
> Bell might actually be cheaper than the "independent" ISPs.
>
> Regards,
> Anthony
Thomas, just to add to the above, I've been happy with my DSL service in 
general (good consistent speeds) but am getting a bit annoyed with the 
number of lost connections I've been having lately. Unfortunately, I 
don't yet know if it's a problem within my walls or outside. For 
example, today my wife complained that the internet wasn't working. 
After resetting the modem and two switches (twice), I got a connection. 
But it took two resets. I don't know what to make of it as yet, still 
have some testing to do.

John.
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