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$47 per month avg ($25 to $83)

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Review by Adam20 See Profile
UPDATED: 1.6 years ago
member for 2.3 years, 845 visits, last login: a few hours ago


Sarnia,ON
$49 per month (36 month contract)
about 3 days
Bell Canada
"Always Slow, Not Fast"
"Tech Support , or lack of"
"Extremely Poor"
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    ***Update****

    Where to start,

    Throttling has killed my connection, I never experienced any downtime, slowdowns or issues until this wonderful bandwidth management, aka to cheap to upgrade your pathetic equipment.

    Bell is running out of chances...

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
    I am overall pleased with my sympatico service, I got a great deal on the Laptop Fusion for employees and have yet to have a service issue in over a year.

    Tech support has been lackluster, thankfully I know how to fix most of my own issues.


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    travisc

    join:2001-11-09
    Port Perry, ON

    Well....

    Do non-employees typically know how to avoid tier 1 support?
    permalink · 2007-08-09 15:42:49 · Reply to this

    Adam20
    Premium
    join:2007-07-19
    Sarnia, ON

    Re: Well....

    Unfortunately... not most of them
    permalink · 2007-08-13 16:24:07 · Reply to this

    adisor19

    join:2004-10-11

    What about the P2P throttling and the newly imposed caps ?

    It should be mentioned in every review if one expects it to be fair.

    Adi
    permalink · 2007-12-10 21:20:20 · Reply to this

    Adam20
    Premium
    join:2007-07-19
    Sarnia, ON

    Re: What about the P2P throttling and the newly imposed caps ?

    P2P throttling does not effect me, I have NEVER been throttled so far. As well as bandwidth cap? I am not on one.
    permalink · 2007-12-11 01:14:18 · Reply to this

    travisc

    join:2001-11-09
    Port Perry, ON

    Re: What about the P2P throttling and the newly imposed caps ?

    I believe adampak20 is a Bell employee, adisor, so there's not much point in humping his review to make it more negative.
    permalink · 2007-12-11 12:20:37 · Reply to this

    Deadpool
    Go Sens Go
    Premium,VIP
    join:2001-03-29
    Canada
    ·Bell Sympatico

    What kind of impact?

    What problems are you having that are leading you to believe traffic management is the root cause? Many have blamed TM in the past only to be proven wrong and that some other condition existed or created the problem.

    On the other hand, the issues that were brought forth in regards to TM were investigated and resolved. So if you have a new problem that needs to be addressed, please let me know.
    --
    Series tied 3-3 vs Leafs...GO SENS GO
    permalink · 2008-03-23 13:22:15 · Print · Reply to this

    Adam20
    Premium
    join:2007-07-19
    Sarnia, ON
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    Re: What kind of impact?

    I don't use Bit Torrent, I find it to be more hassle then Its worth, I usually just download music, files, and programs through Bear Share. Download speed is pathetic, no matter how many people or peers i'm downloading from.

    I am not sure why but web pages are only snappy for shortly after connecting, I have to renew my ip address and flush dns and re register it for pages to load properly.

    This is the first time ive ever had to do it.

    If you have any suggestions let me know, because this is a little beyond my capabilities.
    permalink · 2008-03-23 13:56:59 · Print · Reply to this

    Adam20
    Premium
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    Sarnia, ON
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    Re: What kind of impact?

    Here is my latest speed test on a 5056/800 fastpath profile



    Here also are my line stats
    DSL Status

    5056/800 fastpath
    speedstream 6520
    SNR Atten.
    23.5 9.0.

    No errors for last 24 hours
    permalink · 2008-03-23 14:24:38 · Reply to this

    Deadpool
    Go Sens Go
    Premium,VIP
    join:2001-03-29
    Canada
    ·Bell Sympatico

    Re: What kind of impact?

    Not great.

    Can you PM me your TN? I can test it out.
    --
    Series tied 3-3 vs Leafs...GO SENS GO
    permalink · 2008-03-23 14:25:46 · Reply to this

    Adam20
    Premium
    join:2007-07-19
    Sarnia, ON

    Re: What kind of impact?

    PM Sent
    permalink · 2008-03-23 14:41:02 · Reply to this
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