Review by outreach417 
UPDATED: 172 days ago
member for 1.5 years, 27 visits, last login: 6 days ago
 Toronto,ON
 $45 per month (month by month)
 about 1 days
 "Installed and set-up very quickly, easy to follow instructions"
 "The connection reliability is increasingly worse. There must be congestion and throttling"
 "Should work much better than it does for the price"
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I tried DSL from Bell and they were unable to provide clean service, problems with the line filters that need to be plugged into every jack (if you can find them all). Had cable, but I relocate seasonally for my job, so thought portable would be easier, just pick it up and go - and that is the easiest part, I've used it several locations in the GTA from downtown to the burbs. When it works the connection is the 1.5mbps as advertised, but this has deteriorated over the last several months regardless of location - on average it is half to one third that. (I've used it for almost 3 years). Daily, the wireless modem must be reset several times to re-establish the connection. Opted out of Rogers DNS so not much tech support, so the DSLReports tweaking assistance and forums have been indispensable. For example - the default Windows MTU of 1500 is too large, see a lot of packet fragmentation - even the 1400 "default" suggested by Rogers is too big, so tested and tweaked it back down - when I hit the right MTU size, speed jumped considerably. There is still a lot of latency variation - when it's good it's sub-100 ms, but ranges as high as 1500 ms before dropping entirely. Using DrTCP to tweak RWIN seems to have helped this slightly. If I was gonna stay in one place for more than a couple months, I'd switch back to cable or DSL.
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