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You people in the GTA/Ottawa, have you heard of fibrestream? Looks like limited availability, but they are about to roll out the first 5000mbps residential service. For $100/mo
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codo27 posted:Looks like limited availability No kidding. Fibrestream posted:5000 Mbps is available at the following addresses:
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Sep 3, 2019 14:52
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Pure guess based on where I think those addresses are: they're only available in newly built condos?
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Sep 3, 2019 17:20
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Mostly built in the last five years by the looks of it. A couple of those are over ten, but not many.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:21
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I lived in 21 Carlton over ten years ago fwiw. I think we were the first occupants of someone's investment unit.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:22
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I'm guessing they're in the same boat as beanfield in that anything built after 2001 or so could theoretically be on-net, because code requirements make it trivial to run fibre in the buildings, it's just a matter of getting the condo board to spring for the install fees.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:27
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The fibre provider eats the fees for exclusivity and free marketing. I really liked Coextro fwiw at 111 Elizabeth. Affordable, fast, symmetric, unlimited. In five+ years had one three hour block of downtime, and two more that were less than fifteen minutes.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:32
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Ah, I didn't know that. I'm usually dealing with commercial stuff, and boy howdy do they love their install fees. Usually it's either a few grand up front or you need a minimum number of other subscribers at the site.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:34
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Fibrestream is great and super horny to get into any condos they can. Can also confirm that condo boards are incredibly resistant to having fiber installed for ??reasons?? especially when you approach them as a renter
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Sep 4, 2019 20:24
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If they're like Novus in Vancouver (been around longer but do exclusively fibre buildouts in newer/luxury buildings) they're probably awesome speedwise. Can't speak to customer service or support though Novus is quite good there too
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Sep 5, 2019 02:48
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Some idiot landscaper / hole digging company managed to once again (twice this year and counting so far) completely sever the rogers line servicing the entire street today. When I walked up and asked them what they were doing, they were happily using a backhoe to excavate the hole they had started, had no idea about any rogers line, and when I pointed to the severed cable sticking out from under the backhoe's tread he said oh ya they were just in the middle of fixing that Why and how do these companies get work when they clearly can't even do a locate first, the time before this run in they managed to nick the MAIN GAS LINE for the street as well. To Rogers' credit , their work crew arrived probably 20 minutes after I had called to report the outage, and service was restored shortly after. Really fast response!
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Sep 5, 2019 04:52
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I did a locate this summer to plant a tree and it took 19 days to come back. That certainly doesn't excuse them for not doing it, but with delays like that, it's not surprising they cut corners and risk it. Funny enough though Bell updated the ticket seconds after it was made. They didn't even bother to send anyone out. I could see Bell's lines entering my house near where I was digging too. Luckily I don't use their service so I didn't care.
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Sep 5, 2019 18:04
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Blue On Blue posted:Some idiot landscaper / hole digging company managed to once again (twice this year and counting so far) completely sever the rogers line servicing the entire street today. The exact same thing happened to me few years back, except that I was with Start.ca at the time, and therefore when Rogers fixed the broken lines, they also unplugged my cable at the box because ... reasons (3rd party gently caress you i guess). I didn't know, I had to call support, a tech came and plugged it back in. 1 week without internet. I'd loving ... ughhh. No, I'm not still bitter about it, why do you ask? Does it show?
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Sep 5, 2019 18:59
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keep it down up there! posted:I did a locate this summer to plant a tree and it took 19 days to come back. Do contractors that do this poo poo get presented with an invoice for the cost of repair?
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Blue On Blue posted:Some idiot landscaper / hole digging company managed to once again (twice this year and counting so far) completely sever the rogers line servicing the entire street today. When I was a tech this was a regular seasonal occurrence with boulevard work being done. In spec burial depth is about 6", they (Rogers) don't care about locates because paying a tech piece work to splice repair is 10x cheaper then a full locate or reburial and works most of the time, or you get a fancy templine for a year while they try to get a contracting company to do the burial. When I left they had issues getting contracting companies to take burial jobs because they were lowballing hard. Backlog in the southwestern Ontario area was over 4000 as of last summer at the least.
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Sep 13, 2019 01:06
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So I received an email today...quote:Your TekSavvy Internet package, Cable 150 Unlimited / Câble 150 Illimité with Unlimited download on your account is having the monthly cost dropped from $68.95 to $62.95 on your next billing cycle! That's a drop of $6 on your regular monthly package price. No action on your part is required – it’s just going to happen automatically. Emphasis mine. I hope we see more action from the gov finally getting off its rear end.
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Sep 14, 2019 01:29
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Did some CRTC action go down today? I got bumped on my start.ca connection from 150mbps to 250mbps at no cost
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Tippecanoe posted:Did some CRTC action go down today? I got bumped on my start.ca connection from 150mbps to 250mbps at no cost It went down months ago, but even the smaller ISPs take some time to revise their billing and tiering system, and that’s just happening this week. There is the FTTP decision due soon as well, so 2020 might see competition there.
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Sep 14, 2019 02:07
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This made me go check the service available, and Teksavvy and Start no longer offer DSL, just cable internet. Currently on Bell DSL, but even they don't show that anymore. Just Fiber to the neighborhood. I'd always assumed that means you still use cable or DSL, just it jumps onto Fiber sooner. Or do they actually run something like cat5 to your home?
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Sep 14, 2019 02:44
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Teksavvy's site is down for me, but Start is still showing VDSL 50
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infernal machines posted:Teksavvy's site is down for me, but Start is still showing VDSL 50 I assume it depends on the area, but checking my address, they no longer offer VDSL, just cable.
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Sep 14, 2019 02:59
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Lately I've been seeing speeds over 250 Mbit at night, but I only have 150 Mbit. Anybody know if that's an accident, or some undocumented feature?
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Golluk posted:This made me go check the service available, and Teksavvy and Start no longer offer DSL, just cable internet. Currently on Bell DSL, but even they don't show that anymore. Just Fiber to the neighborhood. I'd always assumed that means you still use cable or DSL, just it jumps onto Fiber sooner. Or do they actually run something like cat5 to your home? The TPIAs got locked out of access to Bell VDSL because bell improperly classed it as a new service and petitioned for a new rate structure. Years later that’s all been sorted out and you can get third party VDSL. This can be sold as Fibre to the neighbourhood, or VDSL, but both are the same product: fibre to some local cabinet on a curb somewhere and pair bonded telephone line into your home. Speeds up to 100mbit are possible.
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EoRaptor posted:The TPIAs got locked out of access to Bell VDSL because bell improperly classed it as a new service and petitioned for a new rate structure. Years later that’s all been sorted out and you can get third party VDSL. This can be sold as Fibre to the neighbourhood, or VDSL, but both are the same product: fibre to some local cabinet on a curb somewhere and pair bonded telephone line into your home. Speeds up to 100mbit are possible. Thanks, I kinda figured that's what happened. I guess the only other thing to check is if I get screwed updating to a new plan from a grandfathered one. Then again it's Bell, so I guess it's more a question of how much.
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Sep 14, 2019 06:18
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Best Buy, Staples accused of 'urging' customers to pirate TV shows with devices sold in stores Yay, this poo poo again! What are these devices anyway I actually have no idea. Some kind of android box that auto torrents?
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priznat posted:Best Buy, Staples accused of 'urging' customers to pirate TV shows with devices sold in stores They sound like heroes that actually understand what the customers want to me.  Rogers delenda est Auto playing popular torrents from a playlist is one way, they could be linking to a playlist of pirated content on foreign streaming services and filled with ads and selling your data. Hell, didn't Hulu start as a site devoted to streaming pirate content before they went legit? Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Sep 15, 2019 |
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It almost certainly just uses pirate streams of broadcast TV channelsMister Facetious posted:Hell, didn't Hulu start as a site devoted to streaming pirate content before they went legit? Hulu was NBC from day 1 infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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Sep 15, 2019 22:34
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It's just the cheapo Android boxes everyone was selling a year ago, except they are twice the price as people were selling on Craigslist. Same guts but different name.
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Sep 16, 2019 01:09
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And of course that Bell 75 dollar 50/10 plan was for new customers only. Loyal current customers are rewarded with paying 99. Going to see what retention's can offer compared to Teksavvy 60/10 on cable for 55 (60 from Start). Current plan is 25/10 and 375GB for 77, and that's with a constant 20 dollar discount from the last time I said I was switching.
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Golluk posted:And of course that Bell 75 dollar 50/10 plan was for new customers only. Loyal current customers are rewarded with paying 99. This is especially funny when you discover they're doing Fibe 940/940 for $55
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Sep 24, 2019 18:32
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I called up Telus' loyalty department the other day and managed to get a $250 bill credit, free $120 wifi mesh pack, and a six month extension to my $75 internet discount (internet 300 for $30ish) for a total return of $820 (+tax on 66% of total) on a 10 minute call. Not bad considering I only have the internet and no tv/phone/etc.
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Sep 24, 2019 20:23
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Seriously call. I recently had my TELUS TV and Internet reduced by half ($100/mo) for a year by threatening Novus.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:34
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My Shaw contract is up in June and I will have to see if there are any more tasty options for the 600Mbit or equivalent, love having that speed now.
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Sep 24, 2019 22:58
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My current plan is to ride out the shaw 2 yr contract then do 90 days on teksavvy and re-sign with shaw on a 2yr promo, and then repeat forever
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Sep 25, 2019 00:32
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Mister Facetious posted:So I received an email today...  CBC.ca: Big telecom companies win court battle in ongoing war with CRTC over wholesale internet rates. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/telecom-crtc-wholesale-internet-1.5302941
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Oct 1, 2019 03:37
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Really hope to see the rates stand up in court. Big isp gotta be smacked down. Notice how Telus is so quiet in all of this. They’re just trying to sneak under the radar and keep fiber out of this. I hope it’s coming next.
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Oct 1, 2019 03:48
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Its important to remember that money is the only law, the only justice, the only power. Thus, Canada is doomed to remain under the iron fist of Bell while the sad puppetry in ottawa continues to provide income to those who act there and do jack squat to advance any causes for the 98%
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codo27 posted:Its important to remember that money is the only law, the only justice, the only power. Thus, Canada is doomed to remain under the iron fist of Bell while the sad puppetry in ottawa continues to provide income to those who act there and do jack squat to advance any causes for the 98% Remember everybody, we vote this month!  
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James Baud posted:I called up Telus' loyalty department the other day and managed to get a $250 bill credit, free $120 wifi mesh pack, and a six month extension to my $75 internet discount (internet 300 for $30ish) for a total return of $820 (+tax on 66% of total) on a 10 minute call. What's a Wifi mesh pack? Thanks for the reminder. My promo rate comes up next month and will need to see what I can do. Shaw has been very aggressive in my area lately so I have that card to play, truth be told I'd really rather not leave Telus fibre.
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slidebite posted:What's a Wifi mesh pack? https://www.telus.com/en/bc/mobility/accessories/product/telus-boost-wi-fi-starter-pack Basically, a range extender because my router is near one corner of my house and I wanted a stronger signal at the far end. Does some coordination for mobile device handoffs to stronger AP rather than the usual "desperately cling to the first AP a device associates with until it's out of range". I've heard the Telus system is a bit second rate vs some other stuff out there but it's better than the cheap one I bought a few years back and you can't beat free.
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