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 Review by insomx 
UPDATED: 278 days ago
member for 6.8 years, 2818 visits, last login: 5 days ago
 Canada
 $45 per month
 about 2 days
 "Customer service is english speaking, unlimited download, no throttling"
 "Great Company"
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Feb 15 09
I now have Aliant in Fredericton. I'm rather far from the CO so it took them a couple weeks to provide me with a stable connection. It's been steady since, but we do see large speed flucations at which the modem sycs at. Sometimes it's 3mbps, sometimes its' 6mbps. Either way we still like it a lot more than anything Rogers can provideo as there aren't any limits or restrictions of any kind.
So overall Aliant is one of the few ISPs left that don't trottle, and that alone is enough to rate them highly.
April 17 08
They seem to have stopped throttling! It may have been some time ago but I don't get to go home much. They are not blocking any ports or throttling anything at all. Makes you wonder why such a small ISP can handle their network w/o thorrtling while Bell and Rogers can't.
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Dec. 24 '07:
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Why do good things never last? Our one year contact ended a couple months ago and I was planning on staying off contract so I wouldn't be locked in. Guess what they did? They automatically signed me up for another one year contract for 10 dollars more a month for only 1.5mbps. I called them up and asked why this happened. They said they automatically renew contracts and you have to call and tell them if you don't want this to happen. Their rates also have gone up A LOT over the past year and the new contract did not make that much better.
So now long story short, I got out of the contact they auto-renewed me for (after tons of pain), but I'm at 1.5mbps for a whooping 45 bucks a month!!
It looks like they have also started to throttle lightly...what a tick off...
I heard rumours that TekSavvy will be coming to NB in the spring, I sure hope this is true...ditch this crappy ISP...even though Rogers isn't any better.
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Oct. 27 '06:
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Great service! It's an unbeatable price of $35 for a one year contract. Rogers is $52 for the same speed, but crappier service.
I still can't get over the no-throttling on Bit-Torrent. I can download at full speeds 24/7. I could only attain around 3-10kB/s with Rogers.
There aren't any download caps, nor any hidden caps. Completely unlimited and it is advertised as unlimited also.
Only thing I don't like is the modem/router they give out. It's unreliable for heavy downloading, but that is only when using it in Router mode. I let my own router control my internet and use their modem just as a bridge. This way works fine. Keep in mind I am a VERY HEAVY internet user with 2 computers and a server running.
Excellent service!
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Sept. 29 '06:
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I love Bell Aliant DSL. It is really fast, no bit torrent throttling, no download caps and really reliable. For $35 a month, it can't be beat! To compare to their competitor, for $52 a month you get the same speed, a 100GB download/upload cap a month, massive throttling on bit torrent so it becomes dial up and terrible realiabilty. All this for 17 a month more!
I've had no complaint yet of my downloading, and it's been overall great.
It is a PPPoE service with dynamic IPs. I just let the router perform the login stuff so I don't need to worry about it.
My profile is 7.2mbps down, but I'm on interleave so I get 20ms pings on my first hop and about 60-70ms to google.ca. When I first signed up I was on a 1mbps profile, I called and 2 days later I was bumped up to 7.
Followup comments:  
Matt_s
@aliant.net | Bittorrent throttling has started at Aliant Please note the statements about Aliant not throttling bittorrent traffic are no longer true as of December 2007 (and probably a month or two before that). | |
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insomx
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Canada | Re: Bittorrent throttling has started at Aliant I'm at university at the moment, so I cannot test this, but this really sucks if that's true. | |
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join:2006-02-04
Tignish, PE | It's not true... Aliant does not throttle at all. | |
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insomx
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Canada | Re: It's not true... Which I mentioned in my latest review | |
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