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 Review by TpAquette 
UPDATED: 181 days ago
member for 3.5 years, 485 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Mont-Saint-Hilaire,QC
 $41 per month (12 month contract)
 about 365 days
 "Reliable connection !"
 "The downloads limits are ridiculous for the download speed they are giving..."
 "Maybe get a good price if you take the combo deal !"
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Ok, well Videotron is most reliable than Bell in my area so I was not having the choice. I can get full speed at anytime of the day (7.5 mbits). Why do I need to have cable tv to get a 10 $ rebate ? You cannot get a good price if you don't take the one year contract with cable tv. I've been using IHV since now 6 years and I cannot say that the service is too bad. One negative point is that Vidéotron is always increasing the price without any upgrade of downloads / uploads limits. I'm not an heavy user of the Internet but 30 gig per month is not realist for the Internet of today.
I have nothing to say about home phone. Reliable and works perfectly.
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Review by DrAkO
Posted: 189 days ago
member for 4.1 years, 1690 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Laval, Qc
$41 per month (12 month contract)
about 3 days
"Vitesse très stable, rapide, ne plante pas."
"Limite de téléchargement absolument ridicule"
"Dommage que VL n'est pas à l'écoute de sa clientèle..."
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La connexion Haute Vitesse de Vidéotron est maintenant rendu à 7,5 Mbits. En pratique, ma vitesse est toujours autour de 7,1 ce qui est excellent.
Le service est plus que fiable, la vitesse est très stable, rien à dire sur la qualité du service.
Par contre, rapport qualité/prix au niveau des capacités de téléchargement, la c'est le ridicule total. Avec 30 Go combinés, les limites n'ont pas changées depuis maintenant 5 ans alors que l'Internet s'est développé à un rythme fou.
Vidéotron devrait être beaucoup plus à l'écoute de sa clientèle vu le prix qu'on paie pour son service Internet (maintenant 41,95$ par mois).
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Review by olic
Posted: 197 days ago
member for 3.4 years, 1366 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Laval,QC
 Business customer
$120 per month (12 month contract)
about 21 days
"Vitesse de D/L."
"Prix des adresses IP supplémentaires"
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J'ai le service extrême affaire. 120$/mois, avec deux ip fixes.
Le service à la clientèle est bon, tant qu'on ne demande rien de spécial, comme des adresses ip supplémentaires. Le tech qui est venu faire l'installation à fait un très bon travail, très "propre".
Par contre, entre le moment où j'ai demandé le service et le moment où celui-ci est devenu fonctionnel, il s'est écoulé trois semaines, un peu long.
J'ai le service depuis un peu plus d'un mois et je n'ai pas eu le moindre problème, donc, pour le moment, très stable.
La vitesse de D/L est bonne. Celle d'U/L laisse à désirer. Le prix de l'accès de base, pour un service affaire est bon, par contre, le prix pour l'adresse supplémentaire, 20$/mois, ext exorbitant comparé à la concurrence.
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Review by shabdizi
UPDATED: 213 days ago
member for 267 days, 24 visits, last login: 79 days ago
Beaconsfield,QC
$60 per month (month by month)
"Fast & reliable."
"Expensive.Very low download limits."
"Competition(eg acanac.com) is far better value for money"
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I have high speed internet package on a monthly basis with videotron ISP.I have been on this package since August of 1999.The download limits have not changed as far as I can remember(20GB download,10GB upload and now 30GB combined+$8/GB if over the limit to $50 max/month) even though the internet has changed since 1999!The price has not come down either.I am paying about the same as 1999 + a few dollars.
I think I am going to switch to acanac ISP(acanac.com).For about $240 per year(all taxes included) for a one year contract + $50 for a DSL modem(download speed 5mbps,upload speed 800kbps)and UNLIMITED download and upload limit.Available in my area(Montreal).Acanac automatically renews your contract after the first year and at a higher rate of about $35/month unless you give them one month notice to not renew and not charge your credit card.It is all in the user agreement.
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join:2001-07-02
Quebec, QC
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| My experience with Acanac 
Let me tell you my experience with ACANAC -
This Feb23th i gave my notice of non-renewal to Videotron so I could shop around for a better deal -- this after 14 years with Videotron on the Extreme Tier !
I did go to all the trouble of getting a Dry Line and a DSL Modem in order to hook up ACANAC DSL. Paid my $227.40 + $96 for the dry line = $323.40 + 54.72 for a modem.
I was connected on Mar 15th and started to use it just like I was using it Videotron. Didn't change my habits , just my routinely surfing , streaming,a bit of gaming and the odd P2P download.
First shock was the unstable speed both in Download and Upload -- Tests were varying by as much as a few 1000's slower -- then the "**good" DSL speed of 6000/615 . It would create havoc with downloads ! **I am one of the lucky one, located less then 1.2Km from Bell Remote; if you stretch this to a few kilometers , you will rarely achieve more then 3500/500 speeds.
Streaming videos or music became a pain... stuttering , breakups...! Useless 50% of the time. Gaming was of the same caliber...!
Then at 4pm sharp till 2am, each day --- the P2P downloads were jammed at 30Kb/s --- That is the throttling on all DSL connections imposed by Bell Canada . Nothing you can do less you use a Tunnelier , and even then you will get frequent disconnects : you'll have to sit in front of that PC to re-login each time it disconnects !
After 10 days of this nighmarish situation , I figured that i would rather pay an extra $25 a month and have something I could live with ! I renewed my Videotron Account .... and got a Refund from ACANAC. Never again on "cheap" DSL , I'll wait for the 2012 version !
Acanac is a good company , they try their best and I must say they do live up to their Refund Policy within the first 30 days. There was no hardship in getting it.
You may be satisfied with DSL , so do as you wish , but :-
Dont forget ... ""The grass may look greener on the other side of the fence but maybe it ai'nt GRASS ""
Cheers !
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join:2009-03-22
Beaconsfield, QC
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| Re: My experience with Acanac Thank you for sharing your experience with acanac.com.
Difficult to find that sort of info anywhere and very useful to know.The acanac.com one month refund policy is reassuring,in case because of geographical or technical reasons the connection is no good. | |
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join:2009-03-22
Beaconsfield, QC
·Videotron
| Re: My experience with Acanac On Thursday before the Easter weekend of 2009 I applied on line and paid for a one yearcontract of acanac dsl service for $18.50 per month INCLUDING TAX and UNLIMITED Download and upload plus $50 for their modem.I received the modem by Fedex on Monday and by Tuesday could connect to the internet and within a week had reached my current speeds of average 3.5 Mbps download and 0.6Mbps upload.Customer service response was very fast,friendly and helpful and has been up to now.
For ten years I had Videotron high speed internet with 30 Gb download+upload per month with gigabytes over the monthly limit charged at $8/G with a max of $50 extra per month.I paid after the $10 discount for Tv subscribers about $60/month including tax.
Today it is about one and half months that I have acanac dsl and so far have been very satisfied and very happy not to have to pay Videotron for their overpriced and over complicated packages for internet.My speeds are roughly half of what they were with Videotron but I pay about A THIRD of what I used to pay.
That is why I strongly recommend switching from videotron to Acanac! | |
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join:2001-07-02
Quebec, QC
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| Re: My experience with Acanac You forgot to mention a few things !!
Service with Acanac is during business hours ONLY -- none on weekends -- and it's done via email. Let's hope your connection does not go sour on a friday -- you'll have to wait till Monday, my friend.
Acanac is a reseller of bandwidth -- you must deal with BELL yourself if the connection is at fault. Acanac cannot do anything for you but pass the buck to BELL.
Your download speed becomes less then 30kb/s from 4pm. till 2am every day due to Bell throttling. If you use BitVise Tunnelier , or any other program to get around the throttling , you may get a hefty penalty from Bell Canada.
Presently Bell Canada is in front of the CRTC to cap all resellers to 60GB - you may get a shock on your unlimited downloads comes this June.
Second year servive with ACANAC is $404.70 in advance debited to your credit card. - And make sure you send them a notification 30 days in advance if you want to cancel -- cause they wont remind you your contract is near the end.
One big flaw --- seeing you are on VIDEOTRON's Forum --- Videotron is a Québec company , where FRENCH is the official language , ACANAC does not offer ANY FRENCH speaking personnel -- they operate from Toronto. So unless you are perfectly bilingual, you are gonna hit a wall with ACANAC.
Good luck with your gaming , your video streaming (Youtube), your P2P downloading ect....ect... comes 4PM -- unless you are a night person and you feel like waiting till 2AM. --
Perhaps ACANAC is not so hot after all for people in Quebec , maybe you should make your recommendation on a Toronto ISP Forum -- it would be much more relevant.
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Mississauga, ON
4 edits | Re: My experience with Acanac " Service with acanac is during business hours ONLY"
Not true. We offer email support 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Phone support is offered from 9AM to 12AM Monday through Friday.
"-- none on weekends -- and it's done via email. Let's hope your connection does not go sour on a friday -- you'll have to wait till Monday, my friend."
Email support is offered on the weekends.
"acanac is a reseller of bandwidth -- you must deal with BELL yourself if the connection is at fault. acanac cannot do anything for you but pass the buck to BELL."
Although we do depend on Bell for the last mile of service we have our own bandwidth carries. We do not reseller Bell's bandwidth.
"Your download speed becomes less then 30kb/s from 4pm. till 2am every day due to Bell throttling. If you use BitVise Tunnelier , or any other program to get around the throttling , you may get a hefty penalty from Bell Canada."
What penalty are you referring too? Never heard of such a thing and this service has been offered for nearly 1 year. Remember your not a Bell client your an Acanac client.
"Presently Bell Canada is in front of the CRTC to cap all resellers to 60GB - you may get a shock on your unlimited downloads comes this June."
No decision will be made at least until July. In either case we will do our best to protect current and future clients.
"Second year servive with acanac is $404.70 in advance debited to your credit card. - And make sure you send them a notification 30 days in advance if you want to cancel -- cause they wont remind you your contract is near the end."
Clients can also pay on 1, 3, 6 and 12 month terms. The higher the term the lower the rate.
"One big flaw --- seeing you are on VIDEOTRON's Forum --- Videotron is a Québec company , where FRENCH is the official language , acanac does not offer ANY FRENCH speaking personnel -- they operate from Toronto. So unless you are perfectly bilingual, you are gonna hit a wall with acanac."
Not true. We do have a few French speaking representatives. More will be added over time.
"Good luck with your gaming , your video streaming (Youtube), your P2P downloading ect....ect... comes 4PM -- unless you are a night person and you feel like waiting till 2AM. --"
Come 4PM you should not notice and difference as long as you use our workarounds. You also have a 30 day money back period to try out the service for yourself. I am not asking for any blind faith. Try it for your self and if we can not meet your needs please just request a full refund within the first 30 days. | |
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join:2009-03-22
Beaconsfield, QC
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| Re: My experience with Acanac Thanks for the two reply posts.Since my subscription to Acanac from the 9th of April 2009,and having had one month of getting a full refund,I can report that I am essentially satisfied with their service so far.If I encounter problems in the future I will try to mention them here.
I have not so far experienced the most serious potential problem mentioned,that of 30kbps in prime time evenings and throttling etc.As I wrote in my first post my download and upload speeds have been stable.
As for the caps being reduced in the future,I believe that the one year contract of unlimited caps has to be honoured till the end of the term by Acanac and that they can not in the middle of the term suddenly change to limited caps.
Thinking about Videotron and Acanac I am reminded of staying at hotels with different star ratings.If Videotron is a five star then Acanac is a three or two star but you get a descent,clean room and can sleep the night for a third of the price and should not expect the little luxuries(such as telephone support in the middle of the night or 7mbp/s downloads or mints on your bed before retiring.) | |
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 Review by jsmaster
UPDATED: 214 days ago
member for 1.7 years, 44 visits, last login: 214 days ago
Montreal,QC
$106 per month (24 month contract)
about 4 days
"7.5 Mbit dans le tapis classe affaire, Service à la clientèle et support technique compétents"
"Prix un peu élevé, ligne téléphonique avec 5 services étoiles un peu chère aussi"
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Aujourd'hui je me suis fait brancher mon service affaire de Vidéotron pour ma compagnie de photographie.
Mon rendez-Vous était prévu entre 13:00 et 17:00 et le technicien est arrivé à 13:25. Hyper courtois, gentil et surtout professionnel.
Le branchement a duré 25 minutes. Les prises étaient existantes dans ma maison déjà car le service résidentiel y avait déjà élu domicile (!)
Après les mesures des signaux, tests de navigations et téléphonie. Tout fonctionne à merveille.
Ma vitesse est constante à 7 Mbits. Aucun ralentissement et je regarde ma connexion pour le reste de la soirée pour détecter d'éventuels problèmes
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Review by e94mli
Posted: 222 days ago
member for 250 days, 33 visits, last login: 62 days ago
Montreal,QC
$61 per month (12 month contract)
about 20 days
"Network fairly stable"
"Customer service and contracts"
"Stay away"
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I started out with a package 10-1Mb/s including unlimited usage. This package was 75$ if I remember correctly and had a 12 month contract. During the contract period Videotron changed from unlimited usage to a 100GB monthly cap and 1.5$ per extra gigabyte with no limit on the additional charges. They did not offer me to change my contract even though they changed the terms. At the end of the 12 month period I changed to the 7.5Mb/s service, which has cap of 30GByte per month but also has a cap on the additional charges of 50$. I also signed up for a 12 month extension for this contract, which gives a 10$ discount.
This year I decided to try something else since I find the Videotron a bit too expensive so I called to cancelled the service. They told me that it would be a 30 day waiting period and 120$ charge for cancelling since they had automatically renewed my contract for another 12 months. This was apparently something they had changed during the year and I would have to cancel a month before my 12 month period expires to avoid the extension. I accepted this after some complaining and cancelled. 2 months later I see on my credit card that they are still charging my for the service, even though they charged me the cancellation fee. Calling to complain they tell me it is because I haven't returned my modem and that I will be refunded when I do. Fine even though I wasn't told to return it before it makes sense and return it and expect to see my money but of course they will not refund me the money, it is just that they will stop charging me from the point the modem is returned. Calling to complain and asking to talk to a manager they just hang up on me. I have given up on Videtron completely and I warn everybody to stay away if they can.
Another example of their lousy customer service is when they came to install my service and didn’t bring the cable tv box I had order. Instead of installing the Internet and tv and sending me the correct box I had to refuse the installation and reorder everything which made it take a week extra and I had to stay home from work a day extra to wait for them.
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Review by jeanc1
UPDATED: 222 days ago
member for 8.4 years, 1354 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Quebec,QC
$70 per month (12 month contract)
about 1 days
"Extremely Reliable"
"Little swaying in Speed - around busy hours."
"Great Provider - worth the extra cost compared to some."
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Been with Videotron for over 10 years - last February , was tempted to look for a better deal; so gave notice of non-renewal - during those 30 days , I sampled ACANAC DSL ; 7000/700 with unlimited downloading for $18.95 a month over a 1 year contract. Actual speed , I got were 6700/680.
The experience was disastrous -- constant ups and down in speed -- frequent disconnects -- poor service support -- buck-passing between Bell, Acanac. - not to forget the throttling imposed to 30 Kb/s between 4pm til 2am each day .
After 15 days, finally gave up on DSL and re-signed with Videotron for another 12 months.
I have HD TV + Internet Extreme + Telephone in one package for a cost of $160 per month +Taxes. The services are excellent.
To my knowledge , there are no other ISP that can compete with Videotron. - they are the BEST available in the eastern part of Canada. (Québec).
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Review by mikeypas5
Posted: 240 days ago
member for 4.6 years, 164 visits, last login: 48 days ago
Westmount,QC
$120 per month (12 month contract)
"It just works! Reliable speeds, great customer service"
"TV coverage could be a bit better. not so many pay per view and HD"
"So happy i made the swtich from bell"
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Been having so many issues with Bell due to bad external wiring (which bell would not fix) and distance from CO, that I never got reliable speeds over 3mb, and always got disconnected.
Considered other DSL providers, but since they all rely on this bad wiring, it wouldn't have helped. So I switched to cable.
Did a lot of research, found a great student promotion, spoke many times with the CSR, received friendly and courteous information, even got called back many times. (NO INDIA TECH SUPPORT LIKE BELL).
Got the High speed (7mb) internet, never get disconnected, and I get 7mb speed always (700up). The promotion was 29.95/month includes modem, 12mnth contract, renewable.
I also got the telephony, with 5 options.
I also got HDPVR and digital cable with 30 custom channels and HD option. I got them to reduce the price of the HDPVR by $200.
All of this combined and its still cheaper than with Bell.
(With Bell, I had their basic television expressvu, was paying more than what I get now and it wasn't HD). Plus I would lose signal each time it rained!
I called bell before switching to try to get a better deal. They said that if I would to combine my services to get the savings, I would lose the price i'm paying now, so it would be more expensive.
Videotron is a good company, friendly people, responsive.
Could use a little bit more HD channels, and pay per view and Video on Demand though.. Bell I believe has about 15 pay per view in english, videotron has 5 (and only 1 is HD)
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Review by CaptCom
UPDATED: 241 days ago
member for 364 days, 19 visits, last login: 218 days ago
Montreal,QC
$100 per month (12 month contract)
"Hard to say, there's no other cable ISP available"
"Connection is unstable, many days with very bad connectivity ( upload most of the time )/per month"
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Its too bad there's no other cable companies that are offering a similar service. The main problem is that they are the only one. So you have to deal by yourself with problems like a bad connection during around 5 or 6 days per month. For example ( this is for Extreme High Speed - 10MB download - 1MB upload ):
Dn:8652 Kbps Up:165 Kbps testvitesse.videotron.ca
Dn:8831 Kbps Up:348 Kbps TekSavvy Solutions Inc (Toronto ON)
Dn:9333 Kbps Up:194 Kbps testvitesse.videotron.ca
Dn:9333 Kbps Up:330 Kbps testvitesse.videotron.ca
Dn:7610 Kbps Up:338 Kbps TekSavvy Solutions Inc (Toronto ON)
Dn:8865 Kbps Up:181 Kbps testvitesse.videotron.ca
See all the spped differences for each off those days? This is what I mean when I said it got a very bad connectivity. Have you ever tried to upload a 30MB file to your FTP with that speed? It is uploading at ± 6KB... it takes hours....
About the service, all they will answer you is that they will send a technician, for 75$ to check the wires and the modem. But the problem is on their side!!! Why I say that? Because the rest of the month everything is ok. Like:
Dn:9210 Kbps Up:824 Kbps testvitesse.videotron.ca
This issue always happen around the 10th of each month. The rest of the month I have nothing to say. Connectivity is ok.
Overall rate: 5/10
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@videotron.ca
| interesting Wow poor you.
Is it for sure 75$ just to get a tech out to find a problem?
Or is it 75$ if the problem is your end?
As far as I'm concerned the cabling outside the house and upto the modem is their problem.
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Montreal, QC
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| Re: interesting Hi,
I don't think wires or anything here are involved in the problems.
If I make a tracert to videotron, it shows servers high pinging in the route. So the problem is on their side, servers in the route that don't make the job. Anyway the problem appears like for 4 - 5 days around the 10th to the 15th of each month, each month. I really doubt the wires or even the modem decide to go bad only during this period.
About bitching them its not really my "style"  No matter what you'll say to them, they are the only ones providing cable connection. So we really have no choices with them.
Thanks for your comment, really appreciated. | |
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good point
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| Re: interesting said by CaptCom :About bitching them its not really my "style" No matter what you'll say to them, they are the only ones providing cable connection. So we really have no choices with them. True. When you're a monopoly they can pretty much tell you, and everyone you love, where to go  | |
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Review by pwhtfld
Posted: 247 days ago
member for 322 days, 26 visits, last login: 6 days ago
Saint-Laurent,QC
$99 per month (36 month contract)
about 10 days
"Solid, stable"
"By far, the best of three different providers I've had experience with"
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Install tech was discourteous, did not explain things, left no documentation....
Installation was the only bad experience - product is good
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il ya eu un probleme lors de mon payment moi qui fais toujours sa par internet mais la le payment ses pas rendue donc il ont couper ma ligne et la ils sont sont lensser la balle du service a la clientele au soutient technique jusqua la perception . ensuite apres quatre jours de combat pour ravoire ma ligne internet il me lon reactiver mais a la plus basse vitesse presque un 56k, contrairement a mon 11mbs qui etais de la bombe. la il faut que je patiente 4 autre jours pour quil envoie un tech a la maison pis que lui vas me dire que ses un probleme a la central bref videotron est un excellent service mais le service client est remplie d innocent plus les un que les autrte. bref il traite leur client comme de la marde.