Review by elecnix 
Posted: 350 days ago
member for 350 days, 1 visits, last login: 342 days ago
 Montreal,QC
 $38 per month (12 month contract)
 about 15 days
 "fast, unthrottled, no filtered ports"
 "difficult to get an exact price for a dry line"
 "Go! Leave Bell or that throttled reseller, and double your download speed!"
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Few months ago, I realized Bell applied throttling to my ISP (a Bell reseller). I had been looking for an unthrottled alternative for months until I found ColbaNet. I got my service activated two weeks ago and have been able to download Ubuntu Linux at one full megabyte per second! This is the ADSL2+ service.
I host servers, so I pay 10$ a month to get a static IP address. This is more than twice the price I was paying at ElectronicBox, but I thought it was still worth it.
I pay 29.95$ per month and have a one-year service agreement, which means there were no activation fees. However, I asked for a dry loop installation, which costs 18.91$ to install, and 7.63$/month (I'm in Zone B, near metro St-Michel).
I got the modem quickly, for which I paid 60$ plus shipping. It's an OvisLink, which came with a filter.
The Bell tech was first scheduled to come while I was out of the country, so I asked to change the appointment date just few days later. The change was confirmed the next day.
After the technician left, I plugged the modem and the ADSL light went on, but I could not contact a PPPoE server. I called ColbaNet and a guy handled the activation in only two minutes. That was it, I haven't had any issues since then.
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