Teksavvy Nightmare

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:22:27PM -0400, Anthony Verevkin wrote:
> 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.

For the same service (if you care about transfer quota), Bell is never
the cheapest.

Also the horror stories I have read (often here on TLUG) about trying
to get Sympatico's billing department to stop taking your money when
you cancel the service makes me never want to consider them.

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Len Sorensen
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