I used TekSavvy for my 2011-2012 school year. The internet 'stalled' only twice, which required a hard reset to be done but other then those minor bumps it was a great experience. You may have to wait a bit to talk to their CSR but they're really good at what they do and their really polite.

Originally Posted by Snowman

If 1 byte = 8 bits, i thought you just divide whatever the advertised speed by 8 to get download speed...

Yes that is true since it is powers of 2 but it is easier to just move the decimal

Originally Posted by j0sh

Were you on their 6 Mbps plan or the 12 Mbps one? and how were the speeds?

I believe we are on 6mbps, thats the cheaper one right? The speeds are good when not all of us are on it, like it said. We all torrent, but we have to make its not set to download in the background all the time, because that slows things, so shut off your torrent when you can.
And we have to reset our router all the time, and our modem sometimes. I think its the routers fault tho, I bought it for like $20.
Im usually able to stream and download at regular speeds, unless the router cuts out then I have to start streaming again.

I just dont like that their price was a promo for one year, that wasn't clear to me when I signed up, so now its our second year and we're paying more. Costs less to pay for 12 months than for 1 month at a time. They charge your credit card in one lump sum though.

Oh man a house where all of you torrent... I'm already having trouble dealing with ONE person in a house of ten doing that >_>
(personal thought, wonder why direct downloads don't lag everyone else but torrenting does.. must be the uploading or the p2p...)

Originally Posted by Leeoku

Oh man a house where all of you torrent... I'm already having trouble dealing with ONE person in a house of ten doing that >_>
(personal thought, wonder why direct downloads don't lag everyone else but torrenting does.. must be the uploading or the p2p...)

You could always tell them to limit the uploading but whenever I limited the uploading speeds, my downloading speeds always decreased. :(

Uploading always sucks up more than downloading. No worries, in a house of ten if one person lags the net we all just complain to them. I put a memo at their door and now lag free ^_^

Note: for Cogeco users be wary of using public torrents. Our landlord got a notice of copyright infringement. Then again most ISPs do track public torrenting and book you for it.

Originally Posted by qwerty91

There are two options:
Cogeco: wicked fast

Nice try Cogeco sales guy.

my girlfriend has cogeco, I had teksavvy. We paid almost the exact same per month. I would have 10 times the speed on teksavvy and it would never crap out for a minute every so often like hers does.

But I guess if you are paying for 100 mbps that is pretty amazing although super expensive and probably overkill.

Originally Posted by julianface

Nice try Cogeco sales guy.

my girlfriend has cogeco, I had teksavvy. We paid almost the exact same per month. I would have 10 times the speed on teksavvy and it would never crap out for a minute every so often like hers does.

But I guess if you are paying for 100 mbps that is pretty amazing although super expensive and probably overkill.

lmao not a cogeco sales person. We have an unlimited business line with 100mbit/s download speed and we are not throttled etc. A 50 min episode on putlocker or gorrillavid will often load in 1 minute (ie buffer 100% the entire show). Its fairly expensive but worth it in my opinion. We used to have Bell 16mb/s plan and it was terrible. Average speeds were 4-5 mb/s and we had massive long slowdowns at about 0.5-1mb/s (we are at the end of the street though)

In general cable is far superior in terms of speed and often downtime. Your friend must have had cogecos minimum plan. We didnt like the Caps on the consumer line go we got a business account.

Originally Posted by qwerty91

lmao not a cogeco sales person. We have an unlimited business line with 100mbit/s download speed and we are not throttled etc. A 50 min episode on putlocker or gorrillavid will often load in 1 minute (ie buffer 100% the entire show). Its fairly expensive but worth it in my opinion. We used to have Bell 16mb/s plan and it was terrible. Average speeds were 4-5 mb/s and we had massive long slowdowns at about 0.5-1mb/s (we are at the end of the street though)

In general cable is far superior in terms of speed and often downtime. Your friend must have had cogecos minimum plan. We didnt like the Caps on the consumer line go we got a business account.

That sounds pretty awesome. My girlfriend has the 30 I think? Not sure but torrents are throttled it seems and stops intermittently

Whats the fastest you've gotten on TekSavvy? Mine was 2.1 MB/s i think on Cogeco from a Rapidleech server