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Oh yeah, I guess that's what I was talking about a page or so ago. That's the letter  I guess we're sticking with Cogeco's new plan since it's basically unlimited for $50 instead of $30 now, and the next higher tiers don't have overage limits so there goes that idea. I should be more outraged than I am, but with no options I have resigned myself that I'll have to give Cogeco money every month and just like it.
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Does anyone here have experience with the wireless modems Bell is using for its Fibe service? My grandmother recently switched over to take advantage of some bundle deal and the speed of her connection seemed to be all over the place. She didn't have any problems with the old wireless G router she'd had before, but this new thing is sleek and scary looking and only has one antenna. 
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The Dark One posted:Does anyone here have experience with the wireless modems Bell is using for its Fibe service? My grandmother recently switched over to take advantage of some bundle deal and the speed of her connection seemed to be all over the place. She didn't have any problems with the old wireless G router she'd had before, but this new thing is sleek and scary looking and only has one antenna. The new modems should, for the most part, be much better. That said, many modem/router combinations still suck. Furthermore, wireless networking is a total crapshoot and so there could be so many things going wrong now (including the possibility of a bad piece of hardware). If she connects wirelessly, then one of the possibilities is that the new wireless setup is on a different channel that is more congested. But before fiddling with that, I would check the speeds you get when plugging straight in to the modem/router.
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The Dark One posted:... but this new thing is sleek and scary looking and only has one antenna.  Most modern routers have no external antennae.
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Aug 14, 2011 15:42
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Martytoof posted:Oh yeah, I guess that's what I was talking about a page or so ago. That's the letter How were you getting unlimited for $30 (now $50) a month? I used to be on Cogeco and never saw that option.
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Dudebro posted:How were you getting unlimited for $30 (now $50) a month? I used to be on Cogeco and never saw that option. I meant the additional $30 overage. It was $45+30 max overage, and now it's like $49+50 overage for practically unlimited internet. At least unlimited in the sense that they hadn't bothered me when I went over 200gb on my originally 60gb plan. I suspect if I did like a terabyte of data in a month they'd probably take some notice.
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I've always wondered, are any goons here on MTS Allstream or SaskTel? Are you happy with it?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:
The plural of antenna depends on what definition you are using. The correct term here would be antennas. Antennae are what insects have.
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That's true, you're right. I was so busy playing with Legos that I wasn't concentrating on my spelling.
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I always thought that the plural of Lego was still Lego, too. :P Edit: For example, "Look at all that Lego!"
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Whoosh? What the hell does that mean? I don't understand?? 
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Lone Rogue posted:I've always wondered, are any goons here on MTS Allstream or SaskTel? Are you happy with it? I used to have MTS high speed in Winnipeg (North Kildonan in case it makes a difference), my wife and I were happy with it particularly for the caller id on the television screen. In regards to the internet connection we had a 5mbit line which was similar to what shaw was offering at the time, performance was a little slower overall but I seemed to get ~10ms lower pings to the west coast on MTS and the speed was steady no matter what time of day it was. The ultimate reason we switched had nothing to do with their service but the fact that shaw has NHL center ice and in a Jets-less environment I required my Montreal/Colorado games.
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Squibbles posted:+$10 for the movie pack so I can get AMC for breaking bad I think you can get HD plus for $16 instead and get all those channels and more.
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blah_blah posted:I think you can get HD plus for $16 instead and get all those channels and more. HD plus is what I have right now but that isn't an option on their newer offering as far as I know.
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Squibbles posted:HD plus is what I have right now but that isn't an option on their newer offering as far as I know. Actually, the 'old' TV packages are still available, so you can get Basic Cable + HD Plus if you want. They're just not listed on the website.
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Drakkus posted:Actually, the 'old' TV packages are still available, so you can get Basic Cable + HD Plus if you want. They're just not listed on the website. Yeah but I am pretty sure it's more expensive (or not possible) to combine the old packages with 100mbps internet. edit: looks like you can but, I was paying about $77 before for cable+phone and 100mbps costs $69+tax so the total comes to about $155. Now I'll be paying about $145 after tax so it is slightly cheaper at the expense of some channels I never watched anyway. Squibbles fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Aug 16, 2011 |
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teethgrinder posted:Whoosh? What the hell does that mean? I don't understand?? There is a lot you aren't getting right now. 
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Lone Rogue posted:I've always wondered, are any goons here on MTS Allstream or SaskTel? Are you happy with it? I too use MTS Allstream, and even pay for the higher (noticable) speeds. I can't give you a speedtest as I'm at work at the moment. :/ A couple of months ago my upload jumped to 1.6 mbps from 0.8 without any warning, which was awesome. A friend of mine lives in Sask and uses Sasktel, and while their billing department is "special", they've always had good speeds.
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Kachunkachunk posted:I always thought that the plural of Lego was still Lego, too. :P
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cowofwar posted:It is Lego for both plural and singular. Dumb people have just caused the expansion of use of "legos". I guess most of society must be pretty dumb from way up on your dork throne as growing up everyone called it legos. Who loving cares.
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Is anyone on Teksavvy having issues viewing 720p or higher videos on Youtube? For the past few days, when trying to load a video, it's been lagging like all gently caress, and taking about 20-30mins to load a 7min video. It says that it's loading from o-o.preferred.teksavvy-xcm1.v3.lscache6.c.youtube.com which, when I ping it, shows an average ping time of over 2 seconds. Every other video host works fine, it just seems to be Youtube and 720p+ having issues. I checked DSL Reports and it seems that some people are experiencing a similar issue in Western Canada. Seems like Montreal are also having issues
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Migishu posted:Is anyone on Teksavvy having issues viewing 720p or higher videos on Youtube? For the past few days, when trying to load a video, it's been lagging like all gently caress, and taking about 20-30mins to load a 7min video. Are you on cable or DSL? Youtube was terrible for me on DSL, but cable is perfect.
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I used to have a very similar problem specifically with YouTube and TekSavvy cable in Toronto, when I first switched half a year ago. As well, several online games were unplayable due to packet-loss or huge lag spikes. The consensus here was that there was probably something wrong with YouTube, but all my issues just vanished randomly one day and it's been solid ever since.Vintersorg posted:I guess most of society must be pretty dumb from way up on your dork throne as growing up everyone called it legos. Who loving cares. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Aug 17, 2011 |
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triplexpac posted:Are you on cable or DSL? Youtube was terrible for me on DSL, but cable is perfect. DSL. It's been fine for me up until this week. I'll give them a call tomorrow and find out what's going on. Meant to call them today but hell, I have to wake up in 8hrs for work, and I haven't been sleeping well as of late (hooray insomnia!)
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teethgrinder posted:I used to have a very similar problem specifically with YouTube and TekSavvy cable in Toronto, when I first switched half a year ago. As well, several online games were unplayable due to packet-loss or huge lag spikes. The consensus here was that there was probably something wrong with YouTube, but all my issues just vanished randomly one day and it's been solid ever since. Oddly enough I get crazy lag spikes in online games. It's intermittent but annoying.
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Lag may happen for anything that needs a good upload rate if you are using the Bell or Rogers infrastructure. There's a way around it I hear. As a TekSavvy employee I cannot tell you what might do that, but I'm sure if you googled MLPPP you'd find it. I got no idea what that is though. Nope, not a clue. Doo dee doo...
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This brings up a good point. I'm being charge by TekSavvy $4 a month for MLPPP Dynamic IP. I'd like to get a static IP for I can get to newsgroups. I have no interest in bonding two dry loop lines. Will be WNDR3700 router support an MLPPP log in?
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teethgrinder posted:I used to have a very similar problem specifically with YouTube and TekSavvy cable in Toronto, when I first switched half a year ago. As well, several online games were unplayable due to packet-loss or huge lag spikes. The consensus here was that there was probably something wrong with YouTube, but all my issues just vanished randomly one day and it's been solid ever since.  To troubleshoot connection latency (maaaybe loss, but there might be better tools for that), you could run `mtr` (for Linux - Matt's Traceroute) or an equivalent like pingpath, perhaps. You need to see what links are sluggish or problematic, but keep it going for a little bit to see if it's ongoing to sporadic. Edit: If you find the latency is fine to youtube.com (I dunno if you would easily find out where your video streaming source is, but there are browser plugins that'd aid in doing that), then it probably is an issue with YouTube.
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Try changing your dns to 8.8.8.8 as well. I've seen funky dns cause weird loading issues with youtube.
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Lone Rogue posted:Lag may happen for anything that needs a good upload rate if you are using the Bell or Rogers infrastructure. There's a way around it I hear. As a TekSavvy employee I cannot tell you what might do that, but I'm sure if you googled MLPPP you'd find it. I got no idea what that is though. Nope, not a clue. Doo dee doo... Yeah I'm on Rogers' infrastructure so MLPPP isn't an option. Might have to switch over to DSL if TekSavvy get's unlimited bandwidth options for that 
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Nitr0 posted:Try changing your dns to 8.8.8.8 as well. I've seen funky dns cause weird loading issues with youtube. I'd just go with Google or OpenDNS. If you multi-home with two different ISPs, it's pretty much required anyway. Edit: Set that at your router/gateway, as your clients are probably using DHCP and would just use your gateway's DNS forwarder (Google/OpenDNS after you configure it) from there.
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Bonzo posted:This brings up a good point. I'm being charge by TekSavvy $4 a month for MLPPP Dynamic IP. I'd like to get a static IP for I can get to newsgroups. I have no interest in bonding two dry loop lines. It is on the list of supported routers for OpenWRT/MLPPP yes it wil. Don't let the OpenWRT bit scare you, this port has an easy to use GUI. As a side note since I just switched to MLPPP today, it may be a good idea to inform customers that their login info will be changed before that info is changed.
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Fractal Cat posted:It is on the list of supported routers for OpenWRT/MLPPP yes it wil. Don't let the OpenWRT bit scare you, this port has an easy to use GUI. Hmmm ok. Will I still have my original router features? I like having the two wireless bands, USB Support and the ability to set a "guest" network
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I'll give GoogleDNS a try, but the last time I tried GoogleDNS, I got worse pings than TekSavvy's DNS.
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Migishu posted:I'll give GoogleDNS a try, but the last time I tried GoogleDNS, I got worse pings than TekSavvy's DNS. There was a good DNS test tool someone posted before, I wish I could remember it. It gives you a list of common DNS and shows you which is fastest for you
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triplexpac posted:There was a good DNS test tool someone posted before, I wish I could remember it. It gives you a list of common DNS and shows you which is fastest for you http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm This one right?
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I got my DNS' mixed up in the previous post. It wasn't TekSavvy DNS, it was OpenDNS, and they were fine for me before. I tried to use GoogleDNS but they had the same lag issues as OpenDNS. Example: Previously it was just 720p that was causing problems, but I just tried loading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frbg732G4ts (from a GBS thread) and even the 320p wasn't loading right I just switched to 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.6 and everything's working wonderfully again. Videos now load in 720p perfectly. Thanks guys!
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Bonzo posted:Hmmm ok. Will I still have my original router features? I like having the two wireless bands, USB Support and the ability to set a "guest" network I know for sure that it has the option of having "guest networks" via virtual interfaces and it has USB support, but from the OpenWRT Wiki it looks like you might (wich usually means you will) have problems using both radios.
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