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I really hate the upstream speed offerings here in Ontario. If you're not in downtown Toronto its really hard to get anything faster than 10mbps. I'm at the point where I might get a business account with Cogeco or something instead.
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The Iron Rose posted:I get gigabit Internet for $55 so you're definitely being screwed there. It was an offer straight on their website too, not even a special deal. Doubt it's available anymore though. Well, technically I am getting internet for $55 (or whatever it is) as well, is just that they shoved down my throat TV as well for $25. Not that I'm still not getting screwed, I totally am, but heh. Still better than no internet at all, since that would be my only other option.
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Volguus posted:Bell has quietly increased my internet bill by $5. It's not much but it is unsettling. Still is a good promotion price of $80 for gigabit but man ... Don't like the price increase? Switch to a competitor! Oh wait, no, they did the same thing. Seriously, is there anything we can do about this? You can't vote with your wallet, because all of them are the same price. You can bitch to retentions and maybe get a deal, but they're just going to jack it up by another $5 with no justification again next time. You can bitch to the CRTC and they'll push their glasses up and be like "They gave you appropriate notification (in the form of 6 point font on your last bill) so there's nothing we can do." Canadians are too polite. What can we actually do to say this isn't appropriate?
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Mar 17, 2019 17:02
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Start a campaign to nationalize our communications infrastructure.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:35
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I'm no good at organizing, but I will totally cheerlead any grass roots endeavor you start. 
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Mar 17, 2019 18:59
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Yeah my 2 year Bell deal is coming to and end in the next week or two, not looking forward to doing the retentions dance.
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Tagra posted:Don't like the price increase? Switch to a competitor! Oh wait, no, they did the same thing. Do Teksavvy and Start or any of the other indies still exist where you are? They don't have gigabit yet anywhere and Rogers/Bell like jerking them around when it comes to service issues but they've been solid offerings in my experience, and they raise their prices on the rare occasions when they have to rather than "because they can", and yet SOMEHOW a ton of Canadians prefer to keep subscribing to Rogers and Bell and complaining rather than switching to one of them. It boggles my mind. If people (not you specifically, this is just a thought I've had a lot and you reminded me) are going to talk like price-sensitive consumers I don't get why they don't act like it, and if they don't, in general, act like it then the CRTC's approach to Internet policy is never going to work. (maybe now that the government is FINALLY getting around to overriding Max Bernier's policy direction some of that stuff might be rethought.)
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Mar 18, 2019 00:51
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Tagra posted:Don't like the price increase? Switch to a competitor! Oh wait, no, they did the same thing. There are no competitors. It's either Bell or bust. So yeah, i just have to bend over and plead them to be gentle.
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Mar 18, 2019 03:50
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TekSavvy and the other resellers simply don’t offer the same quality of service. If you’re willing to deal with various aspects of that so you can pay less, great. I’m not.
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Mar 18, 2019 16:42
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We should do something to fight this monopoly but also let me continue to pay the monopolys lawyers.
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Mar 18, 2019 17:23
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If I'm not getting my service why even
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Mar 18, 2019 17:24
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The Gunslinger posted:I really hate the upstream speed offerings here in Ontario. If you're not in downtown Toronto its really hard to get anything faster than 10mbps. I'm at the point where I might get a business account with Cogeco or something instead. Move to Ottawa. :|
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Speaking of Ottawa, I received an e-mail from TekSavvy urging me to send a form letter to my MP: https://paylesstoconnect.ca/?utm_ca...387809#new-mode quote:[recipient name will go here] M.P.
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Apr 2, 2019 22:39
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This looks interesting: https://twitter.com/privacylawyer/status/1117884896553263104
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Apr 19, 2019 01:19
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EngineerJoe posted:This looks interesting: I always wondered about those How can they even point to any one person as the downloader I could say my neighbours connected to my wifi and downloaded it, is the onus on us or them to prove it ? I suppose its probably part of the ISP contract you sign. Saying anything done on your ip address is your responsibility or some such ?
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Apr 19, 2019 01:26
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Wasn't the entire point of the ruling some years back to tell them to shove it where the sun don't shine?
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Apr 19, 2019 01:44
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What law changed here that allows them to do it in Canada without actively naming you?
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Apr 19, 2019 01:54
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Blue On Blue posted:I always wondered about those Perjury carries criminal penalties compared to just a civil judgement.
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Apr 19, 2019 02:43
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EngineerJoe posted:Perjury carries criminal penalties compared to just a civil judgement. Innocent until proven guilty, where is their proof? They have an IP address, an IP address is not a person
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mewse posted:Innocent until proven guilty, where is their proof? They have an IP address, an IP address is not a person They're suing, it's a civil case. Burden of proof is different.
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Apr 19, 2019 03:59
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Visiting my wife’s relatives and the DSL here is 0.74/0.34 300-1200ms. Thanks Bell
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Apr 21, 2019 20:01
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cowofwar posted:Visiting my wife’s relatives and the DSL here is 0.74/0.34 300-1200ms. Thanks Bell Bell says you're most welcome and please pay the $130/mo bill on time.
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cowofwar posted:Visiting my wife’s relatives and the DSL here is 0.74/0.34 300-1200ms. Thanks Bell Same thing here, I've seen some get upwards of 8mbps down but that's rare. Thank god for Eastlink, but their uploads still don't exceed 10-12mbps. I could easily go on a violent rampage trying to explain to people why to get rid of bell DSL as it's a slap in the face and they're basically laughing at us but they've "been with bell for years" or "never had any trouble". Fuckers.
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codo27 posted:Same thing here, I've seen some get upwards of 8mbps down but that's rare. Thank god for Eastlink, but their uploads still don't exceed 10-12mbps. I could easily go on a violent rampage trying to explain to people why to get rid of bell DSL as it's a slap in the face and they're basically laughing at us but they've "been with bell for years" or "never had any trouble". Fuckers. Bell suddenly offered twice the speed and bandwidth for a lower price when I went and set up my parents for Teksavvy install. Of course if I hadn't done that, they never would have gotten anything from Bell.
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Golluk posted:Bell suddenly offered twice the speed and bandwidth for a lower price when I went and set up my parents for Teksavvy install. Of course if I hadn't done that, they never would have gotten anything from Bell. Sticking with Teksavvy after that?
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Bell routinely offers "ultra" speeds to complainers in my area and of course they fall for it, when they obviously can do nothing further with their speeds at all. loving fourth reich telecom. I hate them. I hate that here in the city, their fibreop is the only thing worth having as well
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I still think Bell is trying to figure wtf they're going to do outside dense urban areas. Rogers currently has the advantage of DOCSIS working fairly well, and at high speeds, even on older cable infrastructure. Bell has... VSDL2. I live in a town of about 10k people and Rogers has been going hog burying fibre along the main streets in town, during winter no less, and I'm not sure what their end game is yet. Bell has done nothing. Their lovely little beaten up brown yard bollards look like no human has touched them in decades. Rogers reps are dropping cards in my mail trying to sway me away from Start.ca with promises of cheap internet and hookers and Bell is absent. 8ender fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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Apr 25, 2019 06:24
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TELUS saw the writing on the wall years ago and is rolling out FTTH everywhere. Using small cities as practice to perfect the rollout method. DSL is a dead end and Bell is going to have to do some major catching up.
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I seen Bell is rolling out internet via LTE to cottage country in Ontario...at a *promotional* price of 60 bucks and 80 after 6 months, for 25mbps/1 up. Thats pathetic. Not to mention theres like a 350gb cap. Caps shouldn't be a thing. Give people some kind of reasonable speed that I'm sure LTE is capable of (not to mention incoming 5g) and that solves all woes. Put in a tower or two for places like home where signal is poo poo. SPEND YOUR ILL GOTTEN MONEY YOU BLUE BASTARDS
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less than three posted:TELUS saw the writing on the wall years ago and is rolling out FTTH everywhere. Using small cities as practice to perfect the rollout method. Telus isn’t rolling out ftth everywhere. They’re focused on large cities and mdu’s and the rest they’re hoping to move to wireless at some point. There is not enough profit for telus to roll out fiber everywhere. Once you get out of any population centre bigger than 100k people you barely see any fiber. Agreed that dsl is a dead tech but they really don’t want to overbuild every small town with fiber. The cost is extreme.
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Nitr0 posted:Telus isn’t rolling out ftth everywhere. They’re focused on large cities and mdu’s and the rest they’re hoping to move to wireless at some point. There is not enough profit for telus to roll out fiber everywhere. Once you get out of any population centre bigger than 100k people you barely see any fiber. Not literally everywhere, but they have a bunch of small places already. Hardly need to be 100k. quote:Abbotsford
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The majority of those are not that small or are very close together. Especially the island communities.
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Apr 26, 2019 08:00
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Or they are physically small but have sufficient population density both in them and nearby to make it worthwhile. Thinking of North Van here.
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Grand Forks and Creston, and to a much lesser extent, places like Quesnel and Williams Lake disagree with that. Doing those two tiny west Kootenay towns implies they'll fill in others, they're nothing special themselves. (Unless, unbeknownst to me, the towns subsidized.it.)
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James Baud posted:Grand Forks and Creston, and to a much lesser extent, places like Quesnel and Williams Lake disagree with that. They've got Quesnel and William's Lake but not Prince George???
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Bell just raised the rates for un-bundled lines (UNE) from about ~$15 to $30. Wholesalers/CLECs are gonna feel the pain on this one.
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Williams loving Lake has FTTH, get the gently caress out of here. I got legitimately trapped in Williams Lake for a week due to snow and they have FTTH.
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It's easy when there is only one H.
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McGavin posted:It's easy when there is only one H. Fibre to THE home after all...
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Antioch posted:Williams loving Lake has FTTH, get the gently caress out of here. I got legitimately trapped in Williams Lake for a week due to snow and they have FTTH. So you can binge on Netflix for a week when you're trapped in snow! 
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