Cutting the Cord

[Evan Leibovitch]

OK. deed is done. Rogers retention made me an offer - unlimited Extreme
Plus (45/4) for $100 but I turned it down. Let's hope TekSavvy does the
trick. Because I'm going from cable to DSL, I can actually have them in
parallel while I do the transition. I have till May 29 to return my rental
boxes to Rogers.

BTW -- is the FTTN equipment at the home end a router (with NAT and
firewall), or just a modem?

- Evan


On 22 April 2013 11:52, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I've been checking out vmedia as part of my shopping. IPTV isn't just
> piggybacked onto regular Internet service, though if you buy IPTV from
> vMedia you *must*  buy your Internet pipe from them too.
>
> And, as you say, its minimum service includes all the other CRTC mandatory
> cruft. Given that I can get five local channels with the equivalent of
> rabbit ears, I think I can do without basic cable or IPTV.
>
> Update: Just got off the phone with TekSavvy. They can do 50/10 FTTN to my
> house for $55 (plus $8 mandatory modem rental) per month. That's half of
> Rogers , with a higher cap that offers unlimited 2-8am. If I want 24/7
> unlimited the cost is $85 -- still cheaper than Rogers with its 230GB cap.
>
> Now to call Rogers. Let's see what their retention folks have in store.
> Can they match this?
>
> - Evan
>
>
>
>
> On 22 April 2013 11:26, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:56:31AM -0400, John Myshrall wrote
>>
>> > I wish the other ISP's would start carrying TV. Hopefully this will
>> > happen in the near future.
>>
>>   There are some like http://vmedia.ca and http://http://zazeen.ca The
>> good news is that they're CRTC-compliant and legal.
>>
>>   The bad news is that they're CRTC-compliant and throw in all the usual
>> mandatory pay-TV channels into their "basic" packages.  E.g. APTN, MUCH,
>> CBC Newsworld, CP24, Weather Network, TSN, YTV, etc.  And I believe you
>> have to subscribe to their internet service as well.
>>
>> --
>> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
>> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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> Evan Leibovitch
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