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Review by mmzkiller 
Posted: 5.7 years ago
member for 5.7 years, 22 visits, last login: 5.4 years ago
 Canada
 $29 per month
 about 5 days
 Bell Canada
 "Low Cost, Simple"
 "Not Unlimited Cap"
 "Better cost and service than others ISP"
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I ordered the High-Speed (1.7Mbps - 3.0Mbps) for $29.95 CAN no contract (monthly). The ISP told me it will be 5 days activation and it's really true, then we got some information by phone for setup or by email. I bought my own equipement (D-Link 300G Generation 2), which is compatible with the ISP. PPPoE connection.
My connection is pretty bad because the ISP told me that I'm too far from the CO, I'm over 4.5KM from the CO. My distance line it's 4.8KM so my connection quality it poor.
I wish the ISP could do something to improve the area coverage by installing another new CO. I wonder why they can't increase the speed? If it does the people close to the CO will get crazy speed?... I don't know. I lived near the border of the city and that the reason, I'm too far.
Thank you!
Kev
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 Review by Superstar613
Posted: 6 years ago
member for 6.2 years, 834 visits, last login: 2.9 years ago
Ottawa
$29 per month
about 5 days
"Cheap, nice pings, good upload"
"Terrible Terrible costumer relations"
"Cheap but sympaticos better"
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Update Dec 16th.
I am going to take the modem to a local ISP and see if there was a problem with it. I am also going to have Bell check my line quality.
I probably should have written one of these a long time ago, but I just haven't been able, actually mad enough, to write one. They just pushed me over the edge.
So I call them, their account/billing dept. or whatever, to inquire about cancelling my account because I'm switching to Bell  due to the unlimited bandwidth, and they get totally pissed. I swear the guy thought I had some kind of vandetta against the company and was so rude I almost swore at him. The first thing was that because I am not my mother (i'm the son), whom the account is under, I cannot not switch or touch any characteristic of the account....Mmm seems to me they did not have a problem with me upgrading to the 3meg service, nor downgrading for that matter. I was the one who created the account, managed the account, and damnit should be able to terminate the account. Secondly, the thing that really pushed me over the edge was his ruse to ask me why I'm cancelling. The bottom line is, I don't need a damn reason. I could cancel for any reason I want to....and there's numerous my friends. So after I calmed down I hung up the phone right there and decided to send their headquarters a nice little email saying how nice and considerate I thought their CS was...not. Sorry I'm ranting but this from almost 2 years of frustration of getting screwed around even though they claim to be more understanding and caring then the large conglomerates. Arrgggh. For 2 years now I have been losing sync I swear very 2 mins, I'm not exagarating. Try playing Xbox live or even simply surfing the net when every 2 secs, bang, you're disconnect. And not re-connected unless you wait 5 mins or reboot the modem. This was my biggest issue by far...up until the incident today. Now people might speculate that ohh you don't your filters installed or your network settings configured properly or your modems faulty...Bullshoot!! I'm currently in Computer Science right now so I would think I would be able to handle something as easy as this. Honestly though, try playing an online game and right in the middle BOOM, lag city or even disconnect. I am thrown many a xbox controllers due to the damn sync loss. But no more my friends!! For I am off to Bell, where I can download/upload endlessly and talk to nice people on the phone and not have to reboot modems repeatedly! If someone would like to comment on this review or write their own I encourage you because I would enjoy hearing some feedback or some other stories on how good or bad this ISP really is. Thanks.
sorry I thought I'd add some extras
my speed: 1300/250 (not too good)
activity time: 5 days (about the norm)
my pings: 30-60 (decent)
termination time: a month (absolutely insane)
Tom
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Review by GirgleMirt
Posted: 6.1 years ago
member for 7 years, 718 visits, last login: 291 days ago
Saint-Laurent,QC
$35 per month (month by month)
about 7 days
Bell Canada
"Great pings, reliability, tech support, etc.."
"Not unlimited"
"Great ISP. Highly recommended. Best ISP I've ever had!"
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Argh.. Thought I had reviewed before :P
Ok so basically, I've tried Bell Sympatico, AEI Internet, VIF and am presently with b2b2c. I'm in Montreal, Quebec.
Out of the 4 I've tried, b2b2c was clearly the fastest. Pings are the lowest I've seen, downloads and uploads are always working full speeds. For gamers, this ISP is absolutely fantastic. I used to be a big online player (still play from time to time), and the pings, stability I have surpass Sympatico & Videotron users, on almost every server, local, Canada, USA, dosen't matter, b2b2c is generally faster and when its not, its on par. VIF & AEI were in a different league below in this reguard.
The connection has be working flawlessly since day one. The only downpoint as mentionned in the previous review, are the download limits.. 34.95$ buys you 25 gigs combined (downloads and uploads). 30$ buys you 10 gigs... Which might be enough for those who don't download much... But 25 gigs is enough IMHO. You can't go crazy and upload/download like a maniac 24h/24h, but hey, 25 gigs is about 35 cd's... thats about 400+ cd's sent/received per year... Thats A LOT!
The problem with the unlimited ISP's I've tried is that you don't get the reliability and speed of b2b2c. Personnaly I was fed up with ISP problems, and b2b2c was the cure to my ailments
I've rated Mail,DNS,News 4 because I don't really use newsgroups and can't really comment on them: Can't really say that its the best... Mail and dns's are flawless though.
Basically, if you're looking for an awesome ISP which will offer the best connection and can live with 25gigs downloads/uploads per month, you can't go wrong with b2b2c.
25 gigs limits vs connection & ISP problems, time loss, headaches, etc.. I'd take the 25 gigs in a sec.
Oh, friendly service and good tech support, but you very rarely need to call them since the connection works flawlessly!
Highly recommended.
Tracing route to dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 9 ms 10 ms 10 ms dsl2.b2b2c.ca [xxxxxxx]
3 9 ms 10 ms 10 ms gw.b2b2c.ca [66.158.128.1]
4 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms metrooptic-gw.peer1.net [216.187.90.137]
5 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms Gig1-0.mtl-core-a.peer1.net [216.187.90.5]
6 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms OC48POS0-0.nyc-gsr-b.peer1.net [216.187.123.234]
7 22 ms 23 ms 24 ms GIG4-0.nyc-gsr-a.peer1.net [216.187.123.241]
8 24 ms 26 ms 31 ms nyiix.ge-2-2-0.gbr1.nyc.nac.net [198.32.160.20]
9 26 ms 27 ms 36 ms 1187.at-0-1-0.gbr1.oct.nac.net [209.123.11.150]
10 25 ms 27 ms 26 ms 95.gi-1-1.msfc1.oct.nac.net [64.21.102.2]
11 28 ms 26 ms 26 ms www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
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25 gigs = 5 dvd's so now thats dosn't seem quite that much  ) Starting to get a little tight!
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 Review by IKARI
Posted: 6.4 years ago
member for 7 years, 1124 visits, last login: 141 days ago
Jonquiere,QC
$30 per month
about 5 days
Bell Canada
"First month free, no yearly contract and no activation fee"
"10Gb cap but you can get 25Gb for 5$ more"
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It's my first month with them, maybe I will complete this review later..
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