Teksavvy Nightmare

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Bell stole over $300 from and refused to actknowledge the return of the modem and wanted to charge me for that as well. That is why I will never go back to Bell! They know it is not worth it for us to go to small clams court for that stolen money. That $300 was based on a dial up acount many years ago.

Abby
----- Original Message -----
From: Lennart Sorensen
Sent: 04/11/13 11:18 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Teksavvy Nightmare

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. -- Len Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
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