TekSavvy for SKYMTL. Need Input

[miggs78]

SKY I'll get home in the evening, I'll look for it and PM you as soon as possible, also unfortunately I migth have the box, but I have lots of boxes lol, I'll send it to ya, really, i'm serious.. :P

[GregH]

I'm with Teksavvy and am using the speedtouch 516 - works great for me.

I referred one of our guys at work to TS as well and he bought his 516 from DirectCanada last week for $50 or so

[Skyllz]

Teksavvy here in Aylmer Qc for a year now and it'S been fine. Running a 516 + WRT54GS with TOMATO for MLPPP and bypassing that dumbass throttling.

[klaiboi]

Hey SKY I would like to know what speed you get as well.

I called up Teksavvy while curious about their service and the lady on the phone said that I could use any of the models used by them (they don't use a custom firmware) and I could buy it else where (NCIX) for about half the price.

Also from what I have heard it is generally a bad idea to mix the modem and router into one unit. your better off buying a modem and a router separately.


And again let me know the speeds...I would definatley switch if I got some good solid numbers from them for the Montreal area

[SKYMTL]

Actually, the best way I have found to avoid throttling is to download from 1AM to 10AM Sunday mornings. I know, really odd but I get full speed only between those times.

[JD]

I'm on Teksavvy and so far I've had zero issues. Went with the 200GB cap since that's all I really pull in a month, plus apparently its 400GB averaged out over 2 months and there's rarely 2 months where I exceed 200GB. Plus it has better routing apparently so lower ping times.

I grabbed my Speedtouch 516 from Infonec as it was cheaper than TSI. Works great and I've had no issues so far. I use it in bridge mode so it really isn't doing much like DHCP/Firewall/etc. My router can handle all that.

I hope you know about DSL Reports: TekSavvy forum - dslreports.com broadband community
Great place to ask any questions you may have.

[Inik]

@Skyllz : How do you manage to bypass the throttling?

[Cheator]

Originally Posted by Inikurmoma

@Skyllz : How do you manage to bypass the throttling?

Using MLPPP you can bypass bell's throttling for now.

[Skyllz]

Originally Posted by Cheator

Using MLPPP you can bypass bell's throttling for now.

A WRT54GS linksys router with TOMATO and MLPPP enabled, lots of infos on the DSL reports forums on how to do it.

[yamawho]

Originally Posted by GregH

I referred one of our guys at work to TS as well and he bought his 516 from DirectCanada last week for $50 or so

DC has a few in stock but the shipping 20$, might be less hassle to get it from TS for 100$ ... I wonder if TS charge for delivery ?

Oops just checked and they are out of stock at the moment.
THOMSON SPEEDTOUCH 516 ADSL2+ EXT ETHERNET MODEM/ROUTER 1PORT - DirectCanada

Let me know if you find a deal somewhere, I'm in the same boat since I am in the process of switching to TS in November.