Review by dbsanfte 
UPDATED: 237 days ago
member for 4.6 years, 583 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Montreal,QC
 $49 per month
 about 14 days
 "ADSL2+ up to 24meg, Annex M if you want it, no throttling, no caps"
 "need to be near a CO. dry line pricing wasn't on the website"
 "this isn't the company it was 2 years ago. HUGE improvement"
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With throttling and now UBB coming down the pipe from Bell, I decided it was time to try out the alternatives, ie, an ISP that wasn't just wholesaling DSL through Bell. Colba has its own equipment in the COs in the Montreal area, and is thus immune to throttling and Bell's UBB policies if you're hooked up through their equipment.
I emailed the sales address on the Colba website, and had my order handled personally by an Ellen Chalyuk, account manager for Colbanet. Colba can tell you whether you're within service area of one of their COs or not, and what speeds others in your area are getting through their service (ie, what you can expect).
I had my dry DSL line hooked up to Colba's equipment on the day of my cancellation with Teksavvy, actually a day earlier than my official activation date. No technician visit was required, but Colba needed directions to give to the Bell tech in case they needed to visit the demarc in my building (the contact # for my landlady was sufficient).
I was told the other customer in my building was syncing at 10megs down, and on the activation date I achieved a sync rate of 11megs down. Hooked up to the NDG CO, which gives me 39dB attenuation from the corner of Sherbrooke W and Elmhurst Ave.
Speed tests match the sync rate (accounting DSL overhead), in offtime as well as primetime (if they've oversold their backhaul from the CO, I can't tell). Pings to my game servers are 12ms higher versus 5meg DSL fastpath on account of interleaving, but I was expecting that.
There's a monthly plan, or you can prepay for a year for a discount. They also offer an Annex M service for a higher price, if you want a better upload speed.
That's about it! ADSL2+ in Montreal, no caps, no throttling! Lovin' it.
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