 Review by BliZZardX 
UPDATED: 119 days ago
member for 5.9 years, 2678 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Toronto,ON
 $44 per month
 about 2 days
 Bell Canada
 "Fairly reliable, stable/low latency (if non-interleaved)"
 "Distance dependant, restrictive policies, routing"
 "Be cautious"
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March 27, 2008
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4 years later...
The only (potentially) useful addition was »/forum/sympatdirect
Other than that, they've turned to misleading advertising (no count for overhead loss), outsourced support--no integrity, little respect for customers and our labour market in this regard. Then come problems with Sympatico's bandwidth supplier which still refuse local peering and prefer intrusive traffic management over capacity appendment. I disagree with their deep packet inspection experiments. I also disagree with their use of the new ADSL2 platform; Expected migration. Optimax should not be a separate service. See entry below.
Overall, poor business practices. Canceled in September '07. These issues remain unresolved and affect everyone. Only fair to update.
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February 2nd, 2004
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Bell recently teamed up with Lucent Technologies (Newark, NJ) to provide a better service to its customers. "Bell Canada plans to invest up to $170 million to add 200,000 connections over a three-year period."
Related URL: »www.newswire.ca/en/releases/arch···122.html
Also, Bell has increased HSE from 1.5 to 3mbps and Ultra from 3 to 4mbps
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March 21st, 2003
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Update: The profile trial I'm on will soon be applied to all customers. Customers on the old Nortel platform will have their hardware swapped out with newer, DSLAM compatible equipment.
Related URL: »www.globetechnology.com/servlet/···/GTStory
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February 16th, 2003
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Got a new modem this Tuesday (EN SS5200). Fun to play with. Unfortunately Bells firmware locks every useful feature. I'm trailing a new speed profile--getting equivalent speeds of a Bellnet customer (1728/384kbps (about 1450/328kbps after overhead))
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October 29th, 2002
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Rogers customer here; decided to move on. I signed a promo of 3 months for $25.
Received my modem (EN SpeedStream 5360) via Xpresspost two days after order. Sympatico trumps Rogers in every aspect. Fast and rock solid connection since activation date.
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