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Does anyone have any suggestions for an internet service provider for a house with 7 people??
I understand that teksavvy seems to have a lot of fans but Im unsure if the speed will be enough for a larger house. Would cogeco be a good option? And Bell has offered me 16mbps 195 gb for 75 dollars too?? I would appreciate any advice  |
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07-27-2010 at 10:34 PM
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Does anyone have any suggestions for an internet service provider for a house with 7 people??
I understand that teksavvy seems to have a lot of fans but Im unsure if the speed will be enough for a larger house. Would cogeco be a good option? And Bell has offered me 16mbps 195 gb for 75 dollars too?? I would appreciate any advice |
Teksavvy is as fast in my 6 person house as bell sympatico is in my 4 person house. We aren't hardcore downloaders/streamers though.
Most of my downloading happens at school anyways, it's so much faster on whatever the school is using. I assume they have a T1 connection but it could actually be even faster.
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07-27-2010 at 10:41 PM
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The other day, I was in mills... and the internet was just unbelievably fast. So I decided to check it out at testmy.net
and my results told me that my download speed was...
2 MB/S
I kid you not.
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07-27-2010 at 11:09 PM
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Does anyone have any suggestions for an internet service provider for a house with 7 people??
I understand that teksavvy seems to have a lot of fans but Im unsure if the speed will be enough for a larger house. Would cogeco be a good option? And Bell has offered me 16mbps 195 gb for 75 dollars too?? I would appreciate any advice |
With 7 people in the house all using internet, you won't survive with Cogeco as an ISP. The bandwidth caps they offer are redonkulous. However, this may change in the near future. The newly offered cable internet service by Teksavvy will provide some competition hopefully and also the announcement of Netflix coming to Canada in the fall may help boost our caps a little. For now though my vote goes to Teksavvy.
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The other day, I was in mills... and the internet was just unbelievably fast. So I decided to check it out at testmy.net
and my results told me that my download speed was...
2 MB/S
I kid you not.
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Bear in mind that this is during the summer when there's less people around. Try it again when it's exam crunch time. It'll fluctuate like mad from managable to painful.
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Originally Posted by djRAIN
The other day, I was in mills... and the internet was just unbelievably fast. So I decided to check it out at testmy.net
and my results told me that my download speed was...
2 MB/S
I kid you not.
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Damn son! I'm just gonna go over there because I'm constantly maxing out my GB.
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07-28-2010 at 12:53 AM
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Wait for TSI cable, should be out in august sometime.
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Wait for TSI cable, should be out in august sometime.
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This. TekSavvy cable is the same speed as Cogeco's cable, but with a 200 GB cap (which they hardly reinforce).
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07-28-2010 at 04:29 AM
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Living in England I've realized what a shitty internet deal Canadians get. For approx the same price as a Bell pack which gives you a 25 megs connection and 75 gig bandwidth limit you can get a 50 meg connection with unlimited bandwidth with Virgin Media. Unlimited, and double the speed, same price. :|
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07-28-2010 at 05:22 AM
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For some reason, Canadian internet does suck compared to other contries. A friend of mine went to Korea and his mind was completely blown at how fast it was there, and I've heard similar things about countries in Europe and Asia. Not sure about the states, but I'm positive it's better.
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07-28-2010 at 09:26 AM
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Teksavvy isnt putting cable in hamilton for awhile (maybe late october - service rep) but they mentioned pretty much getting two dryloops i guess.. mllp??? Which would bring it up from 5M to 10M at an intial set of 400 though (100/month after first)
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07-28-2010 at 09:43 AM
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According to the CEO of teksavvy, it should be out in august.
Englands internet is better, but their copyright laws suck.
Korea has the fastest internet in the world... need I say more?
US has fios.. 25/25 or 50/50 lines are common
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august?? the rep said that cogeco was being funny and thats why they expect a slow down
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07-28-2010 at 10:11 AM
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august?? the rep said that cogeco was being funny and thats why they expect a slow down
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Yeah, but hopefully it works out, they got another month 
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Ive been with AOL for years now (laugh all you want). They have DSL connection @ approx 4-8mbps (depends on location) for $40/month for UNLIMITED upload and download...and they dont throttle torrents. Maybe the best part of all tho is that there is access to HULU, fox.com etc (without proxies) because the connection originates from the states.
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