 Review by matradley 
UPDATED: 135 days ago
member for 5.1 years, 2147 visits, last login: 2 days ago
 Ontario
 $34 per month (12 month contract)
 about 12 days
 Bell Canada
 "Always online"
 "Throttling of P2P Applications (BT et al.)"
 "Reasonable - consider going elsewhere"
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Speed: 3000/640
Price: 34.95 (on contract)
Install: self
I no longer consider Bell Sympatico to be a great service. Due to the outsourcing of customer service, Traffic Management (shaping), and unreasonable and non-competitive rates - as soon as my contract is complete, I will be searching for another DSL provider. Traffic Shaping of BT (BitTorrent) and P2P application is showing that they have a power complex. The re-implementation of data caps, though is does not directly effect me, was an interesting idea to say the least - I do not think they learned their lesson from the last time they did it. In addition, the 200 GB/month unlimited cap is reasonable but unexpected leaving those who are unlimited guessing upon the threshold.
On the technical side, however, the service uptime is very good - I have only been down during power-outages. That is simply because I do not have a battery backup on my modem!
My opinion - consider another DSL provider until Bell Sympatico comes to their senses.
Contract Info:
Modem fee waived (2.00)
Additional fee waived (8.00)
MRadley
A+, Network+, Security+, i-Net+, MCP, CNST, CST, CWS, SME
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