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slidebite posted:Hey longshot question: If she's still with Telus, I assume you can just ask them for a replacement. If not, you can use a set of calipers to determine the barrel and pin size. The Source (by Circuit City!, aka Radio Shack's ambling corpse) has an adapter with a shitton of tips that can find the right one, but the build quality of those, speaking from experience, is e-waste level.
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Yeah she's 6 hours from me so no I can't really measure it and she'd be lost trying to herself. I assume she's still with Telus so that's not a crazy idea but barring that if anyone knows the size I'd appreciate it
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So in my area outside Winnipeg all we can really get is Bell MTS Fibre - which has been fine I guess - 500/500 and "good" tv. $150 w/ taxes. It's coming to an end soon so I call up - "best we can do is you pay $16 more"  Promo online now for my same plan but $10 less and the "better" tv package.We don't got Shaw out here despite them being one of the providers in the town 5 minutes away. But Valley Fibre services here so going to confirm if they can come out - they have 250/250 and way more channels for $120 + taxes. gently caress Bell is all I really wanted to say - saw one of their cars trying to merge back into the lane on the way to work this morning - gently caress letting them in. (and yes I know this car person in the bell branded vehicle doesn't set prices or policy before you lecture)
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Vintersorg posted:So in my area outside Winnipeg all we can really get is Bell MTS Fibre - which has been fine I guess - 500/500 and "good" tv. $150 w/ taxes. Huh. They just put fiber into my neighbourhood near the west perimeter in Wpg and I was considering switching because gigabit fiber is really appealing, but if they're gonna gently caress around with renewal prices like that I'll just take a shaw renewal offer.
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Valley Fibre will be here soon but they are waiting for ground thaw to get the lines in - they have a ton of flags littering the street so it's just a matter of time. I am going to try going in person on Thursday and see if they can give me something good at Bell. If not, I'll just go to internet only and my brother has a hookup for IPTV - I buy the box off Amazon and the guy charges $150 / year for access. I was trying to figure it out on my own but all services look paid anyways. We only really need TV when watching Wheel and Jeopardy. Stingray music videos and channels are nice for cooking and some parties (or I just put on YouTube). Sports stuff is cool for play offs (lol @ Canucks ever getting back in) and random games. But everything else is trash - I just download anything worth a poo poo.
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My French is rusty but I'm pretty sure this graph says "paying for internet in BC loving suuuucks, bro" https://twitter.com/perreaux/status/1640398885179867147?s=20
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What happened in 2010, did Harper go and deregulate something?
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I can understand the "gently caress Bell" sentiment, and kind of MTS by extension. We still have 6.7 down/0.7 up DSL from Bell MTS where we are, which is the same speed we had when we lived in Winnipeg 20 years ago, and Bell seems to have no desire to invest in the infrastructure here. RFNow was supposed to install fiber last year but then pushed it back until the ground froze, and a rep from Valley Fiber dropped off ads in our neighbourhood last week with better prices than RFNow is offering. Hopefully we can actually get something decent out here once things thaw.
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Grog posted:I can understand the "gently caress Bell" sentiment, and kind of MTS by extension. We still have 6.7 down/0.7 up DSL from Bell MTS where we are, which is the same speed we had when we lived in Winnipeg 20 years ago, and Bell seems to have no desire to invest in the infrastructure here. RFNow was supposed to install fiber last year but then pushed it back until the ground froze, and a rep from Valley Fiber dropped off ads in our neighbourhood last week with better prices than RFNow is offering. Hopefully we can actually get something decent out here once things thaw. Have you looked into Starlink?
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mewse posted:Have you looked into Starlink? A friend of mine in Halifax got Starlink and said he ended up not being able to use it for work. It was too unstable for him to maintain a proper vpn or video conference for remote work. Not sure if it was his particular setup or something with starlink in particular causing the issues
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Squibbles posted:A friend of mine in Halifax got Starlink and said he ended up not being able to use it for work. It was too unstable for him to maintain a proper vpn or video conference for remote work. Not sure if it was his particular setup or something with starlink in particular causing the issues Interesting. I've heard nothing but raves from coworkers/colleagues in rural manitoba.
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Ensign Expendable posted:What happened in 2010, did Harper go and deregulate something? They ruled that ISPs were free to bill whatever the gently caress they wanted for overages on arbitrary data transfer caps.
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mewse posted:Have you looked into Starlink? Valley Fiber at least seems to be installing in our neighbourhood now, so we're looking into that.
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mewse posted:Interesting. I've heard nothing but raves from coworkers/colleagues in rural manitoba.
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Squibbles posted:A friend of mine in Halifax got Starlink and said he ended up not being able to use it for work. It was too unstable for him to maintain a proper vpn or video conference for remote work. Not sure if it was his particular setup or something with starlink in particular causing the issues We've deployed Starlink in Nunavut and far enough north that even Starlink is like "you're at the edge of our service area" and we're able to have a solid VPN connection with only occasional outages (2-3x day) of a few minutes at a time because there's not enough satellites deployed that far north currently. Been amazing in comparison to microwave links. Your friend probably screwed up his dish placement.
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unknown posted:We've deployed Starlink in Nunavut and far enough north that even Starlink is like "you're at the edge of our service area" and we're able to have a solid VPN connection with only occasional outages (2-3x day) of a few minutes at a time because there's not enough satellites deployed that far north currently. Been amazing in comparison to microwave links. Your friend probably screwed up his dish placement. This is so location dependant that a blanket statement of “your dish placement is bad” doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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Ok, true on location dependence (downlink issues from what I gather mostly?), but dish/antenna placement can be something - the guys up north wanted to place it "out of the way" which entailed putting it beside the building losing half the sky.
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unknown posted:We've deployed Starlink in Nunavut and far enough north that even Starlink is like "you're at the edge of our service area" and we're able to have a solid VPN connection with only occasional outages (2-3x day) of a few minutes at a time because there's not enough satellites deployed that far north currently. Been amazing in comparison to microwave links. Your friend probably screwed up his dish placement. Unfortunately I don't really have any more details from him. I know he lives not too far outside of Halifax. Close enough that he can get 1g+ fibre from bell anyway. I'm not sure what his tolerance was for dropouts or speed so I can't say just how badly it worked for him. His house has a nice clear view of the sky and his dish was up on top of the 2nd story roof. But who knows, maybe it got mis-aligned in a storm or something.
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I guess Telus bought some TPIAs that operate in Manitoba because they came to my door yesterday and offered "300 internet on shaw lines" for 85 bucks a month along with a bunch of smart home security rental poo poo for an extra 20.
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got the email from rogers saying they own my shaw internet service now. great.. t-thanks?
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I'm really not looking forward to becoming a Bell customer, but after seeing how Videotron handled Fizz I have zero confidence in Freedom's pricing and service staying at acceptable levels. Their web security is already dubious so maybe that will improve.
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Shumagorath posted:I'm really not looking forward to becoming a Bell customer, but after seeing how Videotron handled Fizz I have zero confidence in Freedom's pricing and service staying at acceptable levels. Their web security is already dubious so maybe that will improve. Yeah I'm not holding my breath on freedom. Luckily my new job will pay my cell now so at least I won't be the one out of pocket.
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mewse posted:got the email from rogers saying they own my shaw internet service now. great.. t-thanks? Yeah same I want to bail on stupid rogers asap Not that shaw was or telus is much better
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What are Rogers policies like for traffic shaping and acquiescing to copyright trolls? I've been with Shaw forever and the only "shaping" I ever saw while working for them was when a node was saturated and needed to be split. Some friends from the East are saying that stuff like torrents or running stuff from home servers are going to be heavily traffic shaped, but he's prone to exaggeration. Do they also actually enforce those copyright troll emails that the ISP is legally required to send out? Whenever a customer called in about those we told them what they were and that we as the ISP don't care. I just want to prepare for what's to come and see what my options are. We had Videon TV for as long as I remember and got broadband as soon as it became available, using one of those tank LANCity modems. Then they got bought out by Shaw, then worked for them for a while so it'd be nice if I could get away with not changing anything. Still knowing people on the inside definitely has its perks. This thing was a battleship. 
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Don't upload on public torrents?
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Coxswain Balls posted:Do they also actually enforce those copyright troll emails that the ISP is legally required to send out? Whenever a customer called in about those we told them what they were and that we as the ISP don't care. The only time I got one of those emails was because the only no-cd patch I could find for a game that I owned the physical media for was in a torrent. Not my fault the game wanted to "dial home" for verifying the cd-key to a server that was no longer running, I just wanted to play my semi-obscure RTS, drat it.
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 Use a VPN for torrents. Christ.
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pofcorn posted:
What're they gonna do, no-knock raid my home if I don't?
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pofcorn posted:
This was a decade ago before VPNs were really a thing, in my defense.
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priznat posted:Yeah same I want to bail on stupid rogers asap Same, I would switch ISP but there aren't any better options in my area. The only internet Telus offers here is 15 mb/s for $100/month (or $50 on a 2 year contract).
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Squatch Ambassador posted:Same, I would switch ISP but there aren't any better options in my area. The only internet Telus offers here is 15 mb/s for $100/month (or $50 on a 2 year contract). My area telus has been going hard wiring up for their fibre, so can get some pretty bangin rates Speaking of does anyone know, does the Telus fibre modem or pon or whatever it’s called have a 2.5GbE plug or 10g SFP? Looking at upgrading my router setup.
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pofcorn posted:
I do, I wireguard in to my work PC. wait what?
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odiv posted:I do, I wireguard in to my work PC. A guy at a place I worked at got caught torrenting a bunch of harry potter movies on his workstation and when asked said that he already had several C&Ds to his home account. Lol not helping your case there guy He was not fired tho
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A couple jobs ago we got a C&D because someone on the office network was downloading vampire-themed porn. When I checked logs unfortunately it went cold at something like "android-32732". I assume some weirdo just forgot they had a torrent client running on their phone.
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I caught an employee downloading hundreds of porn torrent on a work computer while he was teaching a class. I passed it up the chain but nothing happened because the guy generated over a million a year in revenue. I only bothered to investigate because other people were complaining about slow internet.
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My old head of operations once joked that “we know it gets lonely when you’re on the road but please don’t use the company VPN for non-work stuff”. Pretty sure nobody was fired or disciplined for it, but i imagine if they didn’t stop it might have become a more serious issue.
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lol talk about overkill, it looks like Bell has 8/8Gbps Fibe in my area.
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I do multiple TB/month on Rogers. Lots of torrents (nothing public though) and have never been throttled. Pretty sure they stopped that some time ago.Chris Knight posted:lol talk about overkill, it looks like Bell has 8/8Gbps Fibe in my area. I hate you. Stanley Pain fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Chris Knight posted:lol talk about overkill, it looks like Bell has 8/8Gbps Fibe in my area. For a couple months now. I was looking at the costs for all the other gear I'd need to get and I couldn't justify it, given that I can barely ever saturate my 1Gbps connection now.
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