TekSavvy for SKYMTL. Need Input

[NyteOwl]

I sure wish TekSavvy would come to Nova Scotia :(

[encorp]

I'm |___| <this close to changing from rogers, just because the only reason I have it now is that it's what my little sister uses for cable so I just got everything there, but I'm getting rid of the cable tv soon so thinking about doing teksavvy, never gone DSL though ever, I've been on cable since the day it came out oh so many years ago ahaha

Edit: My only problem is that this is what I get from rogers:

It fluxuates but I've never recorded below 10kbps, /shrug.. I'm just unsure how much of a difference it'd make if I went to TS's 5.

[kingnubian]

Originally Posted by encorp

I'm |___| <this close to changing from rogers, just because the only reason I have it now is that it's what my little sister uses for cable so I just got everything there, but I'm getting rid of the cable tv soon so thinking about doing teksavvy, never gone DSL though ever, I've been on cable since the day it came out oh so many years ago ahaha

Edit: My only problem is that this is what I get from rogers:

It fluxuates but I've never recorded below 10kbps, /shrug.. I'm just unsure how much of a difference it'd make if I went to TS's 5.

You would definitely see a speed drop if switching to Teksavvy compared to what you have now.

Other issues though have swayed lots of people including myself to make the switch. It all depends on what's important to you.

Adsl2+ with Teksavvy would be amazing though.

[encorp]

Yeah don't want to get off topic. I just would rather avoid paying money to the big man (even though with teksavvy it eventually gets to bell lol).

[S_G]

Yeah, unless you bond two lines with MLPPP, you won't get 12Mbps from TekSavvy. For that though, you need two TekSavvy subscriptions and two modems (and two phone lines, or run one/both on dry loop).

@Sky
Pretty much any ADSL modem will work with TekSavvy, as long as you can configure its VPI/VCI settings to Bell Canada. Any modem you buy from a store should let you do this. The 2wire modem is popular, but it's hard to come by nowadays unless you eBay. I'm trying to remember the name of another ISP that sells modems separately (you don't need to be a subscriber to buy from them). Edit: Found it Hardware - Caneris

[encorp]

I saw their options, what exactly is dry loop?

[Cheator]

Originally Posted by encorp

I saw their options, what exactly is dry loop?

A teksavvy dryloop (which is a Bell GAS dryloop) is a phone line just for ADSL. It has dialtone and you can dial 911 and 310 numbers but thats it.

[lcdguy]

i have been using teksavvy for over a eyar now. And let me say that i would probably not switch for anything. Their customer service is really good. Also if you are not going voip for your phone line you can get a land line phone service through teksavvy as well. As for my setup I am using a 516+linksys GL w/ tomato from fixppp.org (it has the multilink options the regular version doesn't) I am also considering getting another dry dsl line and bonding the connections together. As for pricing they are extremely competitive as they are one of the few ISP's that i have seen left that are still offering unlimited packages. If you do sign up with them please refer me i get a discount on my bill :) But you will need my real name. Which is Duh Duh Duh........ Michael Maher. Also i would head over to the dslreports forums and post your questions there as tsi members routinely peruse the forum.

[S_G]

The only company I would switch for is ColbaNet, because they offer 24Mbps ADSL2 (although that quickly diminishes with distance, so in reality it'd only be ~10-15Mbps). But their ADSL2 service is only available in a limited region of Montreal. Then again, the upload with Colba would still only be 1Mbps, whereas I could get 12Mbps down/1.2Mbps up from Tek for the price of two lines.

[kingnubian]

The potential of Teksavvy offering ADSL2+ service in the not to distant future is one of the major reasons I moved to them among others.
Colbanet offers this service but it is limited in availability at best in particularly coming from an ISP with less than perfect reviews as per Broadband Reports & others.

A few months ago we received notice from Bell that the area I live in had been been completely converted to fiber & found that both 7 & 16meg DSL service was available from Bell. While the 7meg service actually ending costing less than the 5meg plan we were on I still left Bell for various other reasons one of whis was the high price for Bell's 16meg offering.

So far TekSavvy has been a joy to use but more speed is always always welcome.