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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:20:29 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Why does Broadband in Canada suck so much?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23294306</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have friends who had Tekksavvy and not 100% pleased, only 5mbit max kinda slow. Acanac I have it now and I'm so happy with their customer service/support/etc. My friend got screwed by them, he got billed for a full year even tho he canceled their service in advanced. I am starting to feel that Cable Rogers was good, but expensive.
What you guys think?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-05 00:22:30</pubDate>
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<title>Velcom was down for two hours</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's just recovered 5 minutes ago. This is the longest down time I experienced in nearly one year with Velcom.

It's down at about 7:30pm. ADSL light at modem was on but router kept connecting. I called them several times but all were busy and even their message box was full and I couldn't leave a message! 

Anybody had the same problem tonight? Anybody knows what happened in the last two hours? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 21:34:50</pubDate>
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<title>New Ottawa ISP - Anyone Know About This One?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi all.  Just got a flyer at the door about a new ISP that serves a limited area in Ottawa South.  They are called Ottawa South Highspeed and their website is www.oshwcn.ca

They offer a wireless service with very high speeds of up to 25Mbps.  Between the stuff on the flyer and their website they answer most of the questions I'd have of what I'm looking for if I were to switch ISP's.

Anyone heard of these guys?  I'm *content* with my current service but the things these guys claim to provide is way crazy better than I get now.  Of all the things I look for in an ISP reliability and uptime are of the utmost importance hence why I would hesitate to switch.  One good thing is they don't ask for a contract so I may try them out for a couple months to see how things go.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-15 08:33:50</pubDate>
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<title>Ottawa South Highspeed - WOW!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My parents just got us hooked up with a new ISP called Ottawa South Highspeed. 

its absolutely insane! im getting like 16mb/s download AND upload!  our other two companies (rogers and bell) were absolutely terrible, then my dad found one of the pamphlets and gave it a shot.  best thing we ever did internet wise...Ive never had such consistent and fast internet in my LIFE, if you use msn or facebook or torrents or youtube and live in this area you would be crazy not to try OSH.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 23:05:40</pubDate>
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<title>ISP In Ottawa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hey guys,

I'm looking at potential ISP's in the ottawa area to which I'm moving to soon. I need some suggestions.

A good connection matters to me. Hearing that bell's 16mbps only delivering an actual 4 or something is a bit disheartening. Is it common opinion that cable is just.. better?

This is the area I'm going to be in: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Dovercourt+Ave,+Ottawa,+ON,+Canada&ie=UTF8&geocode=FTl5tAId-A18-w&split=0

Much thanks to everyone willing to help an avid gamer in need. ;)]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 01:17:59</pubDate>
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<title>Canada Computers slow website</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm sure there are some here that frequently visit http://www.canadacomputers.com for their computer parts needs.

During the last 6-12 months their website has been so bloody slow its almost unusuable. I have sent them a few feedback complaints with zero response...

I'd just like some verification it's not just me. 

Can you guys do a "ping canadacomputers.com -t" for 10 minutes or so, and paste the output? Make sure to do it when not saturating your connection...

My result is as follows, a whopping 22% packetloss, which would be consistant with the terrible website performance.

Ping statistics for 209.29.203.69:
    Packets: Sent = 766, Received = 594, Lost = 172 (22% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 586ms, Average = 114ms
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1-for-October (1-7-4)
2-for-November (2-3-1)
And now, back to your regularly scheduled losing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-16 15:24:50</pubDate>
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<title>Another &#x22;stay away from primus&#x22; topic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes I'll be among those around here yelling at you all to not make the grave mistake of going with primus!

I've been with them for over a year the service started out okay, but very soon I started noticing really bad speeds and at times no connectivity. For the last 2 months my modem has only been syncing at 896 / 2.400 kbps. I called them, had to wait for 43 minutes to talk to a rep. They made me do all those ping tests and netstat stuff and email them the results also made me do a speedtest from speedtest.primus.ca. They were not able to figure out a problem and told me that they are opening a ticket and something will happen in 2 business days, they are not even going to call me to tell me they have fixed it or not, all they told me is that if anything is fixed I will see a difference in speed. They expect me to keep calling them to follow up (not a good customer retention plan). When I ordered primus over a year ago it was a 5mbit plan. Over the summer(May/June) I was getting 7mbit. Then suddenly when August came my modem started only syncing at 896 / 2.400 kbps. My latency is always over 500 throughout the day! 

A few months back I also remember they had changed my account settings to only 2000 kbps download speed and I had to call them to get it fixed. When it happened in August I thought maybe thats what they did again, but now they tell me they don't know what could be wrong, I still think though that they have fixed it to sync at 2,400 kbps by themselves like last time.

If a primus rep is reading this, I really hope Primus start working on improving its service. You shouldn't be offering internet in places that you can't provide a good service.

I'm in Brampton, Ontario and I'm a little over 2 miles from a Rogers building, the one on 8200 Dixie Road, if that matters at all.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-18 20:35:24</pubDate>
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<title>DSL test login</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hey I am with bell and I was looking to try DSL logins from different compagnies!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 22:56:19</pubDate>
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<title>SPAIN gets 1 megabit regulated guarantee in law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSLH61554320091117

"Spanish citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband internet of at least one megabyte per second at a regulated price wherever they live, the country's industry minister said on Tuesday.

The telecoms operator holding the so-called "universal service" contract would have to guarantee it could offer "reasonably" priced broadband throughout Spain, said Miguel Sebastian in a statement sent to media.

Former state monopoly Telefonica (TEF.MC) has always held the universal contract aimed at protecting consumers in poorly populated areas from being cut off in cases where operators would otherwise consider providing the service unprofitable.

The service also subsidises telecoms to disabled users."

THE bold was added by me and indicates the pricing will be affordable, too bad it never will happen in Canada....]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 15:09:16</pubDate>
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<title>Business Internet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, 

I am just helping my supervisor with one of his assignments, we are looking for a High Speed Internet in the Markham area for business.
We are looking for something with 2mb + upload speed.

Any suggestions as to which company we can call for pricing and good upload speeds. 

Thanks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-19 13:15:12</pubDate>
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