yah im gonna call teksavvy right now, hopefully ur right about them being good!

Don't bother with TekSavvy here until they get cable. Bell is being noticably shittier this year than in previous years I've noticed, and TekSavvy unfortunately has to go over there shitty unreliable throttled lines.

so will teksavvy still be slow even if i get high speed

Originally Posted by ReDorkulateD

so will teksavvy still be slow even if i get high speed

TekSavvy has just one speed right now (5 Mb/s) which by modern standards is pretty slow.

You get Bell's throttling on top of that, which equals the slowest thing possibly ever.

Wait till they get cable service here.

bah really got my hopes up, but wow ACANAC IS TAKING SO LONG...guess i'll switch to cogeco

teksavvy has always been fast enough for us, we have a house of five people and there have been no issues.

it's not as fast as some other services, but our speeds are usually up around the 4-5 mark, where if you pay for 5 with bell you might get 2. plus for a little less speed you get the best download limits around.

were you also able to set it up in a day?

teksavvy does have cable. they got in in april. Secondly teksavy gives 5mb down on dsl which for most homes is the maximum limit on the lines. I get 4.5mb down. That is high speed. Teksavvy isn't throttled. And no teksavvy does not have a 5mb limit the cable i believe is 12mb down.

On a second note it took 5 days for me to switch. 3 days until acanac released my subscription so that teksavvy could use the lines, and 2 days to activate. No dsl can activate same day on a dry-loop, if you already have a phone i believe you can activate on same day.

hm i hope i don't have to cancel my ananac subscription before letting them install it...since the internet doesn't even work

Originally Posted by thedog123123

teksavvy does have cable. they got in in april.

Not in Hamilton. Cogeco is giving them shit, and it keeps getting delayed.

Secondly teksavy gives 5mb down on dsl which for most homes is the maximum limit on the lines.

I don't think so. Plenty of people have a >5 Mb/s profile.

I get 4.5mb down. That is high speed. Teksavvy isn't throttled.

Maybe highspeed for 2003. And you're probably just lucky enough to live in an area where Bell doesn't do throttling. They used to move it around (1 month I'd be throttled, next I wouldn't), but they appear to have pretty much locked it in as of the past few months. That, or you don't use P2P programs or torrents.

Originally Posted by thedog123123

acanac sucks so much words can't explain it. teksavvy is the best ISP by far. The customer service was like staying inside a 5 -star hotel presidents suite.

Sitting on hold for >30 minutes trying to get through to a TekSavvy rep wasn't enjoyable and definitely added conviction to my going with Cogeco.

Originally Posted by eullwm

Sitting on hold for >30 minutes trying to get through to a TekSavvy rep wasn't enjoyable and definitely added conviction to my going with Cogeco.

Yeah thats not cool. But one of the things I've heard is that although you wait a while (small company so its understandable in a sense), once you talk with a rep and have a really technical problem they are able to help you. They know their stuff. Whereas with Cogeco you got some person reading a script or something and get forwarded to different departments etc. Anyways thats what I've read (dslreports.com) and heard.

when a tech support guy starts talking to you about 4chan, you know you're in good hands. i got that with teksavvy.

I'm really interested to hear the politics/goings on with how Cogeco is giving teksavvy shit, or else just why teksavvy is being delayed for so long :( They were supposed to be here by the end of the summer. Now, on the phone, they've told me they're having troubles with the legal stuff, so it might be another couple of months.

To Cogeco: Get ready to FALL HARD. I'm sorry, but you can't survive in an area while charging twice as much. There is nothing REMOTELY comparable to 10Mbps, 200GB cap, at $42/mth

most older neighbours/small town have a 5mb limit in them. It is not a software thing it is a hardware thing.