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Went over my 400GB allotment on Telus again this month, and I can't even blame a Steam sale! Too many folks in the household streaming Netflix/Youtube especially after cutting the cable. Only $5 over so not worth upgrading to unlimited (at +$30) yet, but I am keeping an eye on making a switch to Teksavvy. This is on the Telus 50Mb plan, which is great otherwise. Just ugh, limits are too drat low. I am tempted to go for unlimited and then just go whole hog and do full on remote backups to crash plan, uploading ripped movies to Dropbox etc.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Wish I could get internet like that in Alberta... I get 100/20 and have to pay almost $100/month for it. They just released a fibre package of 150/50 as well, but I haven't seen the price. I imagine it's gently caress you expensive. Paying that for 40/2, so, you know, you've got it good. loving "Northern" Ontario. This place is poo poo garbage.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:06
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Anywhere in Canada that gets described as Northern is screwed. I've lived here for most of 20 years and I don't even know what's on the north shore of Montreal. Lakes of magma and zombie hordes, I assume.
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Evis posted:So in moderately interesting news Telus are starting a slow rollout of IPv6 and say it should be complete in early 2016. (This according to their own forums) IPv6 support on their end is only half the battle, support for it on consumer hardware is all over the place. Even my otherwise rock-solid Asus RTN66U crashes/reboots all the time with native IPv6 enabled on Teksavvy, versus when it's not enabled the only time it reboots is when I lose power. John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Sep 14, 2015 20:23
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37th Chamber posted:IPv6 support on their end is only half the battle, support for it on consumer hardware is all over the place. Are you running stock firmware? Wondering if this is a problem on Merlin as well.
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37th Chamber posted:IPv6 support on their end is only half the battle, support for it on consumer hardware is all over the place. They provide routers to their users who for the most part just use them except for a few that set up bridging. I'd expect it to be relatively stable because they'll know if their routers start crashing constantly. (I hope)
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Sep 14, 2015 21:29
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Mantle posted:Are you running stock firmware? Wondering if this is a problem on Merlin as well. Latest Merlin, but the problem was also present in stock. It was one of the reasons I actually upgraded to Merlin, it had a much newer odhcp6c. John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 00:21
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Going to second an Edgerouter Lite for those approaching gig Internet speeds. Mikrotik is great as well.
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Sep 15, 2015 04:50
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Since I don't have or care about Fibe TV I think I'll just set the Homehub to do PPPoE then make my R7000 the DMZ on its WAN port. brb tearing my closet apart again
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Sep 15, 2015 23:02
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Shumagorath posted:Since I don't have or care about Fibe TV I think I'll just set the Homehub to do PPPoE then make my R7000 the DMZ on its WAN port. brb tearing my closet apart again I am not sure why you don't just run the HH until you get new hardware, the ONLY remote capabilities they have is ACS for firmware. They aren't spying on your local network, and they can already see everything you're doing on the internet if they are so inclined to. Even in DMZ it is double-NAT'd and you'll experience weird things for anything that requires 2 way communication. vvv Yeah, forgot the slowdown was from the PPPoE overhead. John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 23:51
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37th Chamber posted:I am not sure why you don't just run the HH until you get new hardware, the ONLY remote capabilities they have is ACS for firmware. They aren't spying on your local network, and they can already see everything you're doing on the internet if they are so inclined to. I'll try a torrent to make sure UPnP still works but other than that I'm calling this a win. Worst case I can turn the R7000 into a bridge without having to change any wires as it has far better wireless than the HH1000 and local traffic wouldn't leave its switch. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 23:57
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Shumagorath posted:I'll try a torrent to make sure UPnP still works but other than that I'm calling this a win. Worst case I can turn the R7000 into a bridge without having to change any wires. The client would trigger UPnP on the R7000, and remain un-forwarded on the HH, and thus not out to the real world.
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Sep 16, 2015 00:00
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37th Chamber posted:The client would trigger UPnP on the R7000, and remain un-forwarded on the HH, and thus not out to the real world.
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Sep 16, 2015 00:01
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Shumagorath posted:If the R7000 is the DMZ with no other devices on the HH this won't matter...? Effectively the HH is just doing the PPPoE decode with no other duties apart from a small DHCP range that falls outside what the R7000 is assigned. I guess, it just seems silly to do all this stuff needlessly because you're afraid of some Bell boogyman.
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Given what Bell has been capable of as a conglomerate (traffic shaping, anticompetitive pricing, demanding favourable coverage in their own(ed) news networks, CraveTV denying us HBO Go) I'm willing to put more than a token effort into giving them as little information as possible. Not to mention the security on my building's fibre closet is a complete and utter joke. The way I see it this optimizes my peace of mind and bandwidth at no extra cost other than what I've already sunk. Plus, this whole setup would conceivably still work if I ever got Fibe TV.
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Sep 16, 2015 00:18
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Nice, so you're sorted. If you're so inclined, you can configure the HomeHub to port forward everything to the R7000 (set that as a DMZ host). I don't think you should experience much in the way of double NAT issues afterwards, or at least that's the ghetto method I was using for a long time when initially jumping on 50/50 - and without problems.
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Shumagorath posted:Given what Bell has been capable of as a conglomerate (traffic shaping, anticompetitive pricing, demanding favourable coverage in their own(ed) news networks, CraveTV denying us HBO Go) I'm willing to put more than a token effort into giving them as little information as possible. Then why are you giving them money? 
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There are also precious few choices when going said fast.
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Shumagorath posted:Given what Bell has been capable of as a conglomerate (traffic shaping, anticompetitive pricing, demanding favourable coverage in their own(ed) news networks, CraveTV denying us HBO Go) I'm willing to put more than a token effort into giving them as little information as possible. Not to mention the security on my building's fibre closet is a complete and utter joke. Yeah.... they can still collect/profile/spy/whatever you want to claim just as much if not more upstream. So hey they might not see whch device on your network is looking at shameful porn, but they still know you are looking at it! If you distrust your ISP this much, I think it's time to worry less about speed, and more about who you get service from.
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Have you guys bought from directcanada.com before? I have shopped at NCIX for years but directcanada has a laptop I'm interested in for $20 less than NCIX and free shipping too (so about $40 cheaper all together). I could attempt a price match, but I'm not against trying someone new to save the hassle.
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Just pricematch. DirectCanada, along with about five other large computer retailers in Canada, are all owned by NCIX. You can certainly orderly directly from DirectCanada, but NCIX will accept the pricematch with them without fail, and NCIX has the more robust shipping and processing system, so you'll get the item faster from them. Edit: I think it's DirectCanada, BestDirect, MemoryExpress, and one other I can't remember that are all owned by NCIX. NCIX really has the market cornered in Canada, they even provide their own "competition". Bloody Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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NCIX owns them? I did not know that. Who else do they own? (e: just saw your edit) I've been shopping with NCIX since the early 90s when they had that little store on Kingsway and have always had good service so I would like to keep dealing with them directly. Any idea how to pricematch the free shipping or will NCIX just do that automatically? If I start the pricematch process, it just asks for the URL and price, no way to put in mention of the free shipping. ee: Sorry about the hijack, just posted here because we're all  specific 
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Sep 19, 2015 17:02
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:NCIX really has the market cornered in Canada, they even provide their own "competition".  ) and there's always NewEgg Canada.
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I would love a Canada centric shopping/deals thread, does such a thing exist on SA?
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Shumagorath posted:Not really; Canada Computers have a much better retail presence (aside from the one they closed near me Mine closed recently too. Not a good sign. 
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Mister Macys posted:Mine closed recently too. Not a good sign. I think they're consolidating some locations. London had two in lovely places and they merged them into one in a much better spot.
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Same here - CC opened a shop near my old place that is in a standing fight with a Futureshop turned Bestbuy that must rent for 5x what their lease is. The one that closed in my new location was much smaller than the other two stores whose main fault is being comparatively in the rear end end of nowhere.
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priznat posted:I would love a Canada centric shopping/deals thread, does such a thing exist on SA? I used to go to Red Flag Deals periodically but after a while the posts in the forums there seemed made by the same type of people that make comments underneath CBC news stories. You could also tell English was not strong for many which made reading doubly painful.
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Anyone remember the Doppler computer stores? Huge stores with lots of overhead so their prices sucked but it was fun to browse. Nerd-vana! Also someone make the Canadian shopping/deals thread tyia. I would but  
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8ender posted:I think they're consolidating some locations. London had two in lovely places and they merged them into one in a much better spot. Do you know where ( yes, I could look it up, but )?
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Mister Macys posted:Do you know where ( yes, I could look it up, but Wellington near right beside the old closed Futureshop.
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Motherfucker, it's in the wrong end of town! Oxford & Richmond was better!   v - This. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Sep 19, 2015 19:45
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8ender posted:I think they're consolidating some locations. London had two in lovely places and they merged them into one in a much better spot. Living within scowling distance of Labatt Park and being at the mercy of the LTC, losing the ones on Richmond and on Wharncliffe was definitely frustrating, though I'll admit that the new place is a hell of a lot bigger, nicer and better stocked than either of the others. At least there's still Megacomputer for minor parts emergencies. I think one of my friends is still mourning the sudden closure of that big-box Tiger Direct store in town. I'm still baffled that someone even greenlit its opening.
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I made a deals thread for Canadians here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3742653 Feel free to contribute. Not sure how good of legs it will have but who knows.
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Bieeardo posted:I think one of my friends is still mourning the sudden closure of that big-box Tiger Direct store in town. I'm still baffled that someone even greenlit its opening. The prices at that place were shockingly out of line with even Best Buy. I have no idea how they sold anything. The only closure I still mourn is OEMexpress on Oxford. That place was just a counter with a person behind it, a computer to browse their site, and dirty dirty low prices. It was perfect.
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Looks like they're Montreal area only, but there's a place called Microbytes around here that usually beats NCIX by a couple of dollars before shipping. So a decent savings overall.
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Shumagorath posted:Not really; Canada Computers have a much better retail presence (aside from the one they closed near me I like CC when I was living in Toronto, but "retail presence" is hardly a factor in the computer parts business these days, when the vast majority of sales are online. And NewEgg Canada is big, but they're still small fry compared to NCIX right now. NCIX is pretty much the entire computer parts business in Canada at the current time, everyone else is just orbiting them.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I like CC when I was living in Toronto, but "retail presence" is hardly a factor in the computer parts business these days, when the vast majority of sales are online. And NewEgg Canada is big, but they're still small fry compared to NCIX right now. NCIX is pretty much the entire computer parts business in Canada at the current time, everyone else is just orbiting them. Canada Computers really needs to update their website... it's barely changed over the last 10 years. Pathetic really.
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Yeah, but their whole business model has seemed quasi-sketchy since they started. It's been a while since I've been in one, but the last time I visited one of their stores about 10 years ago, the whole place had a "No officer, all these products just fell off the back of a truck." vibe.
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