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BGrifter posted:TekSavvy has a petition up to lobby the CRTC to enforce their prior ruling around the big 3 gouging independent ISPs for access. It’s a form to fill out and it auto emails your MP basically saying WTF. Signed, glad to pester the parachute CPC candidate I didn't vote for in my riding but doubt she'll do SFA.
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priznat posted:Signed, glad to pester the parachute CPC candidate I didn't vote for in my riding but doubt she'll do SFA. Yeah mine just went into the spam filter of a CPC MP too. Still worth the few seconds it took. It would be pretty hilarious if the CPC tried to use inflated internet prices as a cudgel against the Libs given how bad both parties have been on the issue. Last time they tried we got Harper in his favourite Christmas sweater talking about how much he likes to watch all his shows on The Netflix.
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BGrifter posted:TekSavvy has a petition up to lobby the CRTC to enforce their prior ruling around the big 3 gouging independent ISPs for access. It’s a form to fill out and it auto emails your MP basically saying WTF. I did my part. Rogers delenda est
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gently caress. gently caress. So moving in March to East Selkirk, Shaw apparently doesn't service there and now I have to pay the cancellation fees and also been paying for the monthly plan since Dec 1 cause they wouldn't pause the billing just in case they did. Stuck with loving Bell for 2 years now.
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Do they at least have fiber coverage there? I know the other side of the river has FTTP.
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Ah, forgot to mention - they do thankfully, getting the 500/500 plan. Hopefully in a couple years Shaw is here. Lots of new developments.
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All my family there is on Bell MTS and I don't think they've had any major issues. I never bothered to get them on Shaw while I worked there because I didn't want to deal with the questions or complaints, and they have a bundle plan with their cell phones anyways. They're all on some variant of a 50Mbps plan or something which makes me go like, c'mon, you have FTTP, go nuts with it. I have no idea what the prices are like, although I can't imagine the cost:speed ratio is great with those lower-end plans. Coxswain Balls fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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I switched to Bell Fibe FFTH and to be frank it's been a pleasure. I think I've had maybe one service interruption and that's when a tree trimmer donked a cable this summer so that isn't even fair. Of course my prior experience was Cogeco cable and while it was FAIRLY stable over the twenty year period I was with them, at the end there we had a number of outages and I was ready to bail when the option presented itself. The most annoying thing about Bell is that I can't just put their stupid modem into bridge mode because the Fibe TV is IPTV and relies on their networking sorcery. Yes I know I *can*, but I'm so incredibly uninterested in trying to mirror VLANs with my own equipment, and after the initial confusion of setting up with my own router behind theirs everything has worked splendidly.
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Martytoof posted:I switched to Bell Fibe FFTH and to be frank it's been a pleasure. I think I've had maybe one service interruption and that's when a tree trimmer donked a cable this summer so that isn't even fair. Of course my prior experience was Cogeco cable and while it was FAIRLY stable over the twenty year period I was with them, at the end there we had a number of outages and I was ready to bail when the option presented itself. What I did with my modem is leave it be, let the tv working, but told my gateway to authenticate itself to bell and get a routable IP. Basically bypassing it completely. Of course I am not using its WiFi or anything. My network is mine and their tv and stuff is on theirs. No conflict, I haven't setup any vlans, nothing. It just works.
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Oh now that I look at it I think that's exactly what I did too; Looks like I'm talking nonsense here. Thanks!
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Volguus posted:What I did with my modem is leave it be, let the tv working, but told my gateway to authenticate itself to bell and get a routable IP. Basically bypassing it completely. Of course I am not using its WiFi or anything. Martytoof posted:Oh now that I look at it I think that's exactly what I did too; Looks like I'm talking nonsense here. Thanks! This works, but just FYI it isn't officially supported by Bell, and they have broken it with firmware updates to the HH3000 in the past. Some VPN software and certain types of IPv6 tunnels also make the HH3000 crash when this 'mode' is used.
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You know, I like to poo poo on Telus as much as the next guy, but I have to admit their FTTH is pretty rock solid. Did a test for the first time in months and my 750/750 plan is giving me this. e: 780 up
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I’m paying $110/month (with tax) for the privilege, but their gigabit fibre is also very good.
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gently caress all of you i want fibre gdi
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 My router is a bit of a bottleneck. It costs way too much, but it's worth it for the upload.
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It's taken me a while to get my head around my internet connection being as fast as my Ethernet and when I'm out of the house I can still use the resources there like I do Netflix/YouTube etc
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It's pretty wild having clients who are also on Bell gigabit fibre and being able to do site-to-site transfers as if I'm on the LAN.
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mediaphage posted:gently caress all of you i want fibre gdi infernal machines posted:
 My promo ends at the end of this year, maybe I'll go gigabit then if the deal works out.  at 25/25 fibre
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I actually have the 1.5Gbit/940Mbit service because Bell wasn't doing 940/940 for residential for whatever reason. Their pricing here is lower than Telus' by about $30 for the gigabit+ services though. Of course the only way to actually get 1.5Gbit down is with one of a handful of EdgeMAX routers with a 2.5Gbit SFP port. Still, I am more hopeful than ever for Toronto's ConnectTO initiative to do municipal GPON service
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I'm on a 2 year contract for 750 @ $80/month which includes unlimited (they try to charge you +$15 otherwise). Basically the prices on the screenshot are the "list" prices, but call and bitch or threaten to move to Shaw who also services the area, and they'll cut you a deal. You just have to do it every 2 years.
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That's pretty good then. Bell is the only one offering GPON fibre in this neighbourhood and they know it. I had $90/mo. promotional pricing for the first year, and there's no contract, but it's like $120/mo. now. In theory Rogers is expanding FTTH in Toronto but there's no timeline and it's impossible to ask a rep about it as they have no idea what you're talking about and will insist that their FTTN is the same thing.
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slidebite posted:You know, I like to poo poo on Telus as much as the next guy, but I have to admit their FTTH is pretty rock solid. Did a test for the first time in months and my 750/750 plan is giving me this. Telus has the best network of anyone around, and so they should for the amount of money that people spend on it. Doesn’t mean you should use telus though.
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Bell is finally rolling out fibre in this area but I dunno if my town is gonna get it. I can't believe the first location to get it for this area is fuckin Grand Bank. The fools reselling Bell there have been billing ~5mbps DSL as "high speed" for years and now they are just calling the fibre "new high speed".
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in fairness i have very fast cable but i would like actual uploads and the latency of fibre. there is both bell fibre and a very small amount of start-owned fibre in town, but neither is bribing it into our established neighbourhood.
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codo27 posted:Bell is finally rolling out fibre in this area but I dunno if my town is gonna get it. I can't believe the first location to get it for this area is fuckin Grand Bank. The fools reselling Bell there have been billing ~5mbps DSL as "high speed" for years and now they are just calling the fibre "new high speed".
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I've got gigabit FTTH and I can't even saturate it since all my devices are WiFi. I'm living a life of excess.
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I am pretty sure the majority of mainstream customers that sign up for gigabit because it's faster are also on wireless.
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I get 50% of my Rogers Internet and I'd still switch to Bell Fibre in a heart beat. Whenever it becomes available that is 
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Good luck. The Home Hub 3000 is such a piece of poo poo router I'm waiting until its dead and buried before I even look at Bell again.
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It is pretty awful but thankfully I haven't had to touch it since I got Fibe installed. Seems pretty easy to bypass it if your alternate router supports PPPoE
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shadow puppet of a posted:Good luck. The Home Hub 3000 is such a piece of poo poo router I'm waiting until its dead and buried before I even look at Bell again. You can just pull the SFP+ based ONT out of it and stick it in your own router if you don’t want to deal with the HH3000. Requires a bit of extra fiddling if you want TV to work as well, but otherwise simple steps.
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Hmm, I haven't had problems with mine yet, but then again I live alone and I only have a PC, a phone and a nvidia shield connected to it.
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The only thing worse than the Home Hub 3000 is the Home Hub 2000, which they still provide to businesses with any of the Fibe branded services. Holy poo poo those things are terrible the minute you have more than three or four devices connected. It's easy enough to replace them with a decent router since the ONT is just a separate box with an ethernet jack, but Bell has a habit of changing the PPPoE password if you contact support for any reason.
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What kind of pings do you guys get with your FTTH vs your old connections?
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To where? Google.ca is 14ms for me right now
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infernal machines posted:To where? Yah I was wondering more from a comparative thing, like what you used to get and what you get now, lets say, when playing your favourite game, etc.
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On average, probably about 10ms lower to off network stuff than when I was on Rogers' gigabit cable. Anything on Bell's network is sub 10ms total though, which is handy because a bunch of my clients are on it too. I haven't done online gaming in years, so I don't have a basis for comparison there.
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It's kind of a dumb question. Your latency isn't comparable unless you tell what your current technology is. To your first hop with fibre your latency should be 1ms.
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infernal machines posted:On average, probably about 10ms lower to off network stuff than when I was on Rogers' gigabit cable. Anything on Bell's network is sub 10ms total though, which is handy because a bunch of my clients are on it too. Thanks this is what I was curious about.
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Did you guys have to pay install fees for fibre with Bell/Telus? There's a fibre provider out in Western Manitoba but the install is about $600(lower if you have a bunch of neighbours with it too) and it's only 100/100 for $139.95/month.
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