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Old 01-16-2011 at 03:50 PM   #1
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Good ISP's in Hamilton
I'm trying to do some research on ISP's but some are crap and some i probably dont know about. the only good one i found was cogeco. Any other good ones that are NOT ROGERS OR BELL BASED
Old 01-16-2011 at 03:58 PM   #2
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I heard about Tekk Savvy being decent. But I have never tried it.
I have Cogeco. They are way overpriced and the package you get isn't even the best.
Old 01-16-2011 at 03:59 PM   #3
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i know tekk savvy is resell of bell servers, so im trying to push that aside for now
Old 01-16-2011 at 04:00 PM   #4
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Than I guess you are left with Cogeco. But again they are overpriced for the packages they offer and they will charge you for basically anything
Old 01-16-2011 at 04:05 PM   #5
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I think Shaw and Acanac might be separate from Rogers/Bell as well, but I'm not 100% sure. And I'm not sure if Acanac services Hamilton (or maybe just partially? Really not sure)... Shaw does at least.
Old 01-16-2011 at 04:10 PM   #6
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Acanac is a reseller of Bell.
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Old 01-16-2011 at 04:11 PM   #7
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does cogeco throttle i heard they did.

and dam doesnt look like any more isps do unlim bandwidth
Old 01-16-2011 at 04:12 PM   #8
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I've had Sympatico for like... 8 years. Nothing but good things from these guys.

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Old 01-16-2011 at 04:13 PM   #9
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Yeah all ISP's throttle, but there are ways around it
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Old 01-16-2011 at 04:14 PM   #10
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cogeco!

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Old 01-16-2011 at 04:35 PM   #11
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All dsl will be a re sell of bell.

Not 100% sure about cable though but good chance all cable isp will be a resell of something else as well
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Old 01-16-2011 at 04:39 PM   #12
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minus the fact that bell is throttling, im surprised bell is liked by the people i tlak to. from my experience, overpriced, slow and terrible customer serv
Old 01-16-2011 at 05:28 PM   #13
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I have had no issues with bell internet and I have had it for quite a while. I notice with cogeco that about once a month the internet is disconnected for a few minutes, not a big deal just annoying really.
Old 01-16-2011 at 06:19 PM   #14
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lol at "good" ISP's in Hamilton or Canada for that matter. Cogeco would probably be your best bet right now judging from your first post. I live near Ivor Wynn and its the only ISP out of the few in my area that is reasonably good. I've never had a single tech. problem with them over the years. My only gripe is the bandwidth caps which are so ridiculous I don't know how they get away with it. I mean look at their Ultimate 50 package which is 50Mbps down and has a 150GB cap while on the other hand looking at TSI their lowest package is 200GB cap...wtf??Anyways I've been looking at switching ISPs myself and I'm eyeing TSI Cable only thing stopping me is it's unavailablity in my area. :'(

Good place to go for ISP info is http://www.dslreports.com/
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Old 01-16-2011 at 06:21 PM   #15
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As soon as TSI cable is available in hamilton most students will switch for sure
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