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Is TekSavvy cable in Montreal at all comparable to Toronto? I might end up moving there in the not-too-distant future and I guess it's either them or that awesome ADSL2+ provider mentioned a few pages back.
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DistribuTel is putting fliers in the mail for unlimited internet these days. I have no idea if they're any good but at least the word is getting out from resellers to people who otherwise don't care.
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Mar 17, 2011 03:25
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So with the election almost certain, are the CRTC going to be able to pass rules at the behest of their puppetmasters uncontested? I guess the election will be over before any actual regulation goes through, but now would be an excellent time to make this a voting issue. Lord knows the Liberals will be stuggling for traction.
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Mar 24, 2011 03:58
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teethgrinder posted:I've been using http://www.usvideo.org to proxy US Netflix ever since someone mentioned it in the Toronto thread. It's been two months now and it's working great. I've got a US VPN, so I could probably do this on my PS3 by switching to Tomato OpenVPN and using Entropay. I don't need the MLPPP firmware anymore, but OpenVPN is also more expensive than SSTP from my provider. The thing is I have $20/mo unlimited Usenet and scarcely use that VPN since my torrents are unfiltered, soooo-oooo....
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Apr 10, 2011 20:20
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The standalone 25Mbps service looks reasonable. 100Mbps packages are sorta silly if you need a TV bundle unless you absolutely can't wait for Usenet to finish on 25Mbps.
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May 26, 2011 03:08
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To be perfectly honest, if I consume 250GB of content it's been a bad month. I can definitely see why people would want it but that's enough Steam to fill my entire SSD or enough Netflix to deprive me of either sleep or a pay cheque.
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May 26, 2011 03:11
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I'm renting in Concord Cityplace next month, so while Teksavvy will stay at my parent's house and cottage I think I might have to give Telus' fibre a shot. The 100/5 Mbps plan is 300GB and $100/mo, but the 25/5Mbps plan is 200GB and only $50/mo or so. On my absolute worst month ever I pulled 120+ GB out of a 4M/500k DSL connection, but 300GB is my current free HDD space and there's no way I'd be home enough to watch that much Netflix. I think the mid-range plan is a better bet. The apartment is also wired with a "private" LAN but I am putting a router infront of everything regardless.
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Jun 20, 2011 23:43
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I'm sitting here at Cityplace tethered through my Blackberry because Telus' office is closed for Canada Day. My account info was never sent to me and regular Telus tech support think I'm a witch because I'm trying to reach the internet without a modem. If I don't get this setup in the next 24hrs I'm cancelling. No speed is worth business-hour tech support.
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Jul 1, 2011 22:17
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Thanks for the tip! I managed to raise someone today who said they saw and obvious problem on provisioning, but if I need to contact someone later I'll give Solutions a try.
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Jul 2, 2011 17:41
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Yeah, I cancelled Rogers years prior to getting Teksavvy's cable service and when I plugged my modem back in I actually got a Rogers page. You won't need a contractor; just tell them to port you and you're good. That's a good line out of customer retention. I had the guys below them tell me to quit if I was unhappy with throttling, but at least CR was trying to be nice about the fact there was nothing they could do. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Aug 21, 2011 |
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Aug 21, 2011 16:31
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Sprawl posted:I was able to with a Canadian only netflix account play all the us videos without a separate subscription using usvideo.org. Its just a normal netflix.ca account using paypal to month to month subscribe.
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Sep 11, 2011 05:59
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The Gunslinger posted:You definitely have to start with an American account. Setup unblock-us first (test it detects you properly on their site) then signup for Netflix using a US address and specify USA as your country. If you don't then it will let you see US content with unblock-us but your account will be flagged with the CDN interface. I tried a dozen different ways to get around it and ultimately had to just cancel my old account and start over with a new one.
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VERTiG0 posted:gently caress every single one of these bloodsucking monsters but Teksavvy. Every time I pop into this thread I just get pissed off.
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Jan 24, 2013 02:08
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Bell has loving 50/50? What the gently caress is Telus Cityplace doing offering 100/5/$100?
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Apr 4, 2013 02:27
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Supposedly Bell did away with shaping but I refuse to believe a word they say. They were too stupid to prevent MLPPP from getting around it so an SSTP VPN / OpenVPN will look like the signal from Contact to them.
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Who's everyone using for their US exit provider these days? I'm considering ditching StrongVPN as the amount of ESL writing creeping onto their site is starting to worry me. I like having one-click security that I can use for my laptop on public WiFi so I've been using SSTP, but with SSL 3.0 being broken as gently caress I'm thinking OpenVPN might be better. Like I said, all I want to do is tunnel anything that's going to hit airwaves and get Netflix/Pandora.
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Oct 18, 2013 02:57
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With how much Bell is trying to ram CraveTV down everyone's throats it's amazing that they're not offering it as a cable replacement. What kind of market share and coverage does Bell have in TV anyway? They've had CP24 anchors reading ads for it as news items but most of the people watching it couldn't pay for it if they tried. Meanwhile they have all the HBO programming locked up so HBO can't make money off me for Go. What an awful company.
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37th Chamber posted:I want whatever drugs they are on, where they think ~$60/mo for Crave access is remotely competitive to Netflix's $9/mo I haven't set up my latest VPN service since leaving StrongVPN, but is US Netflix even that much better anymore? I remember it had a different movie selection but definitely not a superset. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 21:30
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They have a better chance of reattaching social stigma to marijuana. I'm only sort of kidding when I say Bell is probably going to try subliminal messaging on CP24 to get people to stop circumventing their attempts at total vertical integration. A wise man once said: "gently caress Rogers, but gently caress Bell."
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Jun 5, 2015 04:52
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I've watched more Canadian content on Netflix in the past year than I have on any of CTV's channels. That constitutes a single episode of that francophone Montreal cop drama, but whatever.
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Jun 5, 2015 16:00
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Rogers has decent plans for landline internet but they do shady things like traffic injection (and lied to me three times before I quit back in 2007). Their cell service is still preferable to Wind where it's usually "works at your house or office but never both". Bell's bad reputation started with their truly awful outsourced customer service and then really crashed and burned with the UBB fiasco. Even their jobs website is awful; it's the only time I decided I would rather not have the posted job than spend the required effort to complete the application.
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Jun 5, 2015 17:11
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Who do you have those plans with? Are the prices the result of bundling? Voice usage dropping isn't even a pricing thing either. I might just be getting old but phone calls have managed to gain some incredibly privileged status where people act like it's a huge inconvenience to actually talk to someone who isn't their closest friend or a family member.
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Jun 7, 2015 00:24
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Showcase has some decent original programming since Shaw bought them and killed all the obscure European soft porn.
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Bell has 950/100/unlimited service to my new building. Why do I get the feeling it's powered by the souls of the damned?
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Aug 26, 2015 04:04
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Migishu posted:Cost: Your soul
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Thanks to you both. I'm almost surely not going to get TV since some combination of OTA/Netflix/XBox/BD/ will be more than I have time to watch already.edit: kinda strange that the technician can only show up after dark and has to sacrifice a goat Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Aug 27, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 21:30
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Kachunkachunk posted:It's simple enough to just stick their router on the end in bridged mode - remove the PPPoE settings (put in dummy info) and enter that into your own router instead. Turn off wireless on the bridged device while you're at it, though. I typically connect the router into a switch anyway so that rebooting it doesn't kill the LAN. Does that offload any work to give it more time for routing vs. switching? Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 02:15
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Yeah after reviewing SNB it looks like I'm going to stick with Netgear for another generation (R7000 in particular). I've already got an older N router in the basement of a house and it gets to the top floor if I have my laptop at the right 90º angle. My phone radio is a write-off though and I ended up putting two TVs on Powerline so the Netflix quality would be more consistent. Edit: Wait, the R7000 doesn't appear to have VLAN...? SNB's chart might just be wrong. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 16:01
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What the gently caress? That site rated it as the highest WAN to LAN throughput they'd ever seen.
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Deathreaper posted:any ideas what kind of routing speed you can expect on a Linksys WRT-1900AC? Oddly higher outbound than inbound?
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I think what everyone is wondering about is how DD-WRT's wiki can claim WAN-LAN throughput on the stock R7000 that's half what SNB tested.
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My Bell Fibe is maxing out at around 400Mbps downstream despite me paying for 950. I tested it with just the homehub after the initial setup using a laptop with a Surface USB 3.0-to-Ethernet connection, and that's remained my maximum with a Netgear R7000 switched and VLAN'd to take over routing and wireless to a PC with motherboard ethernet. Even Usenet struggles to crack 20MB/s. Should I just downgrade to 350Mbps and save myself $50/mo or is there a way to really push this pipe? Could the problem be that I have Cat 5e in the wall / patch panel instead of Cat 6? Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Sep 12, 2015 21:38
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The USB adapter is Surface so I doubt it's too cheap to handle it but who knows. The gigabit switch I've got between the WAN ports is a $50 TP-Link but the page I found (http://blog.ngpixel.com/post/104449747538/how-to-bypass-bell-fibe-hub-and-use-your-own-router) said virtually any switch would do. Getting into my patch panel to put the desktop straight into the homehub will be a pain in the rear end but I'll perhaps try swapping it out with the $80 Linksys I was going to use further down the LAN. Usenet was jumping between 10 and 20MB/s so I have to think it's a case of something not being able to keep up. I made sure the download was going to the SSD. Edit: With both switches I averaged 15MB/s which is slower than Speedtest.net by a factor of ~4 using the TELUS server. loving Astraweb. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Sep 13, 2015 |
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Yeah I have an ONT that previously went into the homehub and now goes into the switch as pictured. I saw the Bell tech hook everything up in the building fibre closet so it's true FTTP. Edit: Bell's own speed test maxes out at 500/120 so it might be rates on their end. Now to pretend to unplug my entire LAN... Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Sep 13, 2015 |
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It looks like DD-WRT's reported PPPoE numbers for the R7000's stock firmware were correct. When I plug my desktop into the HomeHub I get the advertised speed of 950/100. Even Astraweb is hitting a solid 50MB/sec. I really don't want to give Bell visibility of my home LAN so I might just live with the slower speed until there's a firmware fix. Here's hoping the speed improves when I reconnect it  (Edited above to reduce confusion re: stock vs. DD-WRT) Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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I am using vendor firmware - I had to upgrade it off a USB stick just to get VLAN tagging working. I'm back to 500/120 after putting the switch and R7000 back in line (and finding out that Bell reset my PPPoE password during troubleshooting). Right now it's a choice between having a ~48% speed reduction and a network I can fully trust won't be vulnerable to a flaw in Bell's remote management interface, or 100% of the speed I'm paying for and a $300 R7000 acting as a basic wireless AP so I can get my 5GHz. I think I'll take the former.
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Rukus posted:The Edgerouter Lite has had PPPoE offloading since last year (v. 1.5.0 firmware), maybe check that out? It should get you close to wire-speed if the offloading is properly configured. I don't intend to get Fibe TV, so is there any way to make the Homehub do PPPoE and have the R7000 do everything else without double-NATing? Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Since I don't have or care about Fibe TV I think I'll just set the Homehub to do PPPoE then make my R7000 the DMZ on its WAN port. brb tearing my closet apart again
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37th Chamber posted:I am not sure why you don't just run the HH until you get new hardware, the ONLY remote capabilities they have is ACS for firmware. They aren't spying on your local network, and they can already see everything you're doing on the internet if they are so inclined to. I'll try a torrent to make sure UPnP still works but other than that I'm calling this a win. Worst case I can turn the R7000 into a bridge without having to change any wires as it has far better wireless than the HH1000 and local traffic wouldn't leave its switch. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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37th Chamber posted:The client would trigger UPnP on the R7000, and remain un-forwarded on the HH, and thus not out to the real world.
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