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Thanks guys.. Yeah doing the trick with F12ing the WAN IP worked for setting up bridged mode again  Glad I don't have the Optik TV!
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telus gave me 50gb more bandwith a month. so generous! i'm back at 200 from what used to be like 250 or 300+ 
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Acer Pilot posted:telus gave me 50gb more bandwith a month. so generous! i'm back at 200 from what used to be like 250 or 300+ Well, I for one, would like to thank Big Brother for raising the ration of chocolate from thirty-two grams, to twenty.  Monopoly is choice Freedom is bandwidth caps ... I can't think of a third one. 
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infernal machines posted:I live in a mid-rise in Toronto and I have 250/20 through Rogers. This sounds more like a Hamilton problem to me. My partner and I don't need TV, what's the best internet for excessive youtube watching that we can get around Toronto, infernal? IIRC you live near me, too.
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I guess it depends on how excessive is excessive, but if it's just for streaming media Start.ca has some solid options between 30 and 100Mbit that run over Rogers cable. I've set up a few friends with them now and they haven't had the same peak-congestion or downtime issues of some other providers. Even with constant HD streaming, I don't know that you be going over 300GB very often, but there are unlimited packages too. I'd still recommend a cable service over VDSL here unless you're very sure about the DSL infrastructure in the neighbourhood. There's too much variation block to block and even house to house, to say how fast or reliable that would be. I just went with Rogers because I was already paying for the balls out 150 package from Teksavvy and Rogers started offering 250/20 unlimited for the same price.
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Beanfield probably provides the most excessive Youtube watching packages, but is only in very limited areas (mostly Liberty Village).
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I didn't mention them because usually if you're on net with Beanfield, Telus, or Bell fibre you already know about it.
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I could throw a rock and hit Liberty Village, but they're not in my building. Just scheduled a start.ca installation after you said it. Thanks.
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So what are some good Netflix alternatives for Canadians, if any exist? My last working American IP just got blocked and after trying about a dozen from various sites online I think I'm ready to concede a loss. I've watched most of the content I care to watch on Canadian Netflix; and losing access to Animaniacs, Parks and Rec, and Justice League blows. I can only watch Breaking Bad, Community, and Cosmos so many times, and I doubt Netflix is going to slack off blocking DNS anytime soon. This is bizarre, I'm fully willing to pay for an alternative to cable. Heck, I'd pay twice my current Netflix rate for access to global content. I even buy music since it's often more convenient than  these days. But without Netflix turning a blind eye to unblockers anymore, the same mightn't be true for streaming video anymore.
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If you've got an Apple TV and an American iTunes account you could get a month of HBO Now and binge all their shows. (Game of Thrones, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) I think I heard something about other devices getting HBO Now soon if you don't have an Apple TV box.
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Nah, just a regular LG SmartTV. It has Amazon video service, but it looks like it's just the rent/buy for individual titles rather than the subscription based service.
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watchseries.li There's no good answer. TV is a mess, especially in Canada. You won't at all find a solution like the music industry has to offer. To even get close you'd have to maintain several producer channel accounts with like hbo, showtime, hulu. Then there's the distributor channels like shomi from Rogers if you want a better range of TV selection. Past that, studios are starting to delve into content hosting themselves, like Paramount. That's five 9.99 bills a month just to have a selection scale close to what you could get with music on apple music. I don't know if others do it, but Eastlink cable has a big 'digital' bundle where you automatically get a subscription to hbo, showtime, etc etc. You just have to use your eastlink credentials. That might be the closest thing we get.
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BGrifter posted:If you've got an Apple TV and an American iTunes account you could get a month of HBO Now and binge all their shows. (Game of Thrones, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) I think I heard something about other devices getting HBO Now soon if you don't have an Apple TV box. CraveTV has all of those as I understand it.
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sbaldrick posted:CraveTV has all of those as I understand it. Only the HBO back catalog is available on Crave, nothing currently airing (http://www.cravetv.ca/list/607) vs HBO Now that has relatively all their titles, new and old.
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37th Chamber posted:Only the HBO back catalog is available on Crave, nothing currently airing (http://www.cravetv.ca/list/607) vs HBO Now that has relatively all their titles, new and old. Plus if you pay for Crave you're giving Bell money encouraging them to make the problem worse. Never give anyone money for Crave or Shomi.
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37th Chamber posted:Only the HBO back catalog is available on Crave, nothing currently airing (http://www.cravetv.ca/list/607) vs HBO Now that has relatively all their titles, new and old. I honestly didn't know that. I have Crave as part of my tv package but I've never used it due to it's horrible as gently caress interface.
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Zigmidge posted:I don't know if others do it, but Eastlink cable has a big 'digital' bundle where you automatically get a subscription to hbo, showtime, etc etc. You just have to use your eastlink credentials. That might be the closest thing we get. However getting EastLink is never the answer as they are absolute garbage.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:However getting EastLink is never the answer as they are absolute garbage. Still my best option. Its them or NorthernTel (aka Bell) DSL. Eastlink's had issues, but they're still (usually) good.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:However getting EastLink is never the answer as they are absolute garbage. I've never had a problem with Eastlink that wasn't the fact that they aren't fibre, but then I didn't even know they existed outside of Nova Scotia.
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senae posted:I've never had a problem with Eastlink that wasn't the fact that they aren't fibre, but then I didn't even know they existed outside of Nova Scotia. They're fairly big in my part of Ontario - Sudbury, North Bay, Timmins and all in between. Its a good market for them, as nobody else gives a poo poo about us.
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Dealing with EastLink in Alberta is decidedly awful. I have a client in Grand Prairie on EastLink and holy moly is that connection a giant pile of poo poo.
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Well, on the plus side, we're not the US where the 2 largest internet providers are merging 
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Pfft. You say that like "conspiracy to form a price-fixing cartel" doesn't count as a merger. 
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Mister Macys posted:Pfft. You say that like "conspiracy to form a price-fixing cartel" doesn't count as a merger. I prefer the term "blissfully ignorant" thank you
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Migishu posted:Well, on the plus side, we're not the US where the 2 largest internet providers are merging Who is merging?
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Arsten posted:Who is merging? Charter and Time Warner.
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mediaphage posted:Charter and Time Warner. Those aren't the two largest. And even after a merger, they will only hold #2 to Comcast.
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Arsten posted:Those aren't the two largest. And even after a merger, they will only hold #2 to Comcast. I'm aware but if you can think of another major cable merger, by all means.
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mediaphage posted:I'm aware but if you can think of another major cable merger, by all means. The recently dropped Comcast and TW merger comes to mind, where it was the #1 and #2/#3 provider merging.
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Mister Macys posted:Pfft. You say that like "conspiracy to form a price-fixing cartel" doesn't count as a merger. At least Bell and Rogers pretend to compete in many of the same cities. How does an effective federal regulator not stooh I am a sweet summer child ain't I? e: This ain't canpol flakeloaf fucked around with this message at 13:41 on May 2, 2016 |
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http://business.financialpost.com/investing/market-moves/bce-to-buy-manitoba-telecom-services-in-3-9-billion-deal I heard from some friends working there that they were doing poorly, but I didn't realize it was that poorly.
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Coxswain Balls posted:http://business.financialpost.com/investing/market-moves/bce-to-buy-manitoba-telecom-services-in-3-9-billion-deal  Evidence suggests they were still profitable, though income was trending downwards and they were looking at making cuts, which I guess is what your friends were seeing.Maybe charging 30-40% less than your competitors do elsewhere in the country while also trying to upgrade expensive infrastructure actually wasn't sustainable? Or maybe the shareholders just wanted to cash out or think they can do better as Bell shareholders.
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Yeah, that was more along the lines of what I was seeing with pay cuts and layoffs/"restructuring". I wasn't really following the business much more than what I've heard through the grapevine, since they've been around since forever ago and I'd just assumed they'd stay as a constant.
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Apparently, Rogers has transitioned to IPV6 over the past few weeks. I'm not sure if it's available to TPIA's yet
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Coxswain Balls posted:http://business.financialpost.com/investing/market-moves/bce-to-buy-manitoba-telecom-services-in-3-9-billion-deal Going to suck for Manitoban's if it goes through. With MTS in the market, other providers had to give Manitoba competitive rates. But, that'll end quickly. Nobody I know is happy about that, whatsoever.
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