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join:2002-11-21
Lawrencetown., NS
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Anav
Sarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
Premium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
|  Re: oops
Eastlink rocks most of the time....... damn bunch of outages so far this winter though, seemed to start with that vicious storm in November.. If you live in Sackville/Bedford its like which street is out today while they do upgrades that seem to be taking forever (mind you who wants to work in -30 windchill!!!)
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estlnk
@142.176.x.x | DONT GO WITH EASTLINK! their tech support is terrible! Go with another company, other companies are catching up to Eastlinks speeds not to mention the support staff at eastlink are terrible! | |
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sswilson
join:2002-09-26
Shearwater, NS
| Re: DONT GO WITH EASTLINK! I agree that Eastlink support is less than stellar, but I'm wondering who you suggest is even coming close to eastlink speeds?
I'm aware of only a handful of companies who are offering broadband in NS let alone any that even make an attempt at providing the same speeds....
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eastlinksucks2
@eastlink.ca | Re: DONT GO WITH EASTLINK! ya i agree their are more companies now to choose from | |
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join:2003-01-23
Charlottetown, PE | Re: DONT GO WITH EASTLINK! I just switched from Aliant to Eastlink & am more than happy with the service I'm getting here in Charlottetown. Aliant's broadband can hardly even be called broadband in comparison. | |
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sswilson
join:2002-09-26
Shearwater, NS
| Re: DONT GO WITH EASTLINK! Agreed.....
Aside from tech support issues (I noticed this weekend that Eastlink is looking for a new tech support manager), the service is decent, & as far as I can tell, there isn't anybody who comes even close to the 3000+ / 800+ I'm getting.
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thisisgaye
join:2003-02-03
| Need ISP for Gaming I just moved to Sydney, NS and I am looking at my options for an ISP. It's either MPowered or East Link up there and I'm looking for input on which ISP is the best gaming ISP. Latency is more important then speed at the moment for me. The game I play is UT and hopefully soon UT2k3. In Fredericton, NB I used to get a ping anywhere from 60-120, probably 90% of the time and I'm looking to hopefully see the same here in Sydney. Send any info/replies to thisisgaye@hotmail.com. Thanks | |
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TeQNiCaL
@eastlink.ca | Re: Need ISP for Gaming I agree Eastlink has had quite a few bumps in their "always on" service, but out here in the sticks anything faster than 56k (usual connection 28.8 at isp) is welcome with open arms er i mean hardrives. | |
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sonician
@142.227.x.x | bandwidth usage cap! Was anyone else aware that they implemented a usage cap three months ago? 30GB transfer per month, after which they automatically drop your speed way down. | |
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| voltrez
VIP
join:2003-03-10
Dallas, TX | Re: bandwidth usage cap! that is correct and if you violate that bandwidth limit they will also upgrade you to a business package. | |
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| voltrez
VIP
join:2003-03-10
Dallas, TX | And your "High speed internet" will drop to a 9k a second cap. And when you call in to complain all they say is then disconnect your service if you dont like it. And that is the literal words! | |
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LeRoger
@eastlink.ca
| Lee Bailey I have been a customer of Eastlink service for over a year now and as it is the only high speed service in the part of the Annapolis vally that i live in i have nothing to say about the differance between DSL and cable but i can say that i am very happy with the service and the speed that i am getting here, using numion.com speed check i am getting speeds of 600 to 700 Kbps to other Candian sites and 500 to 600 Kbps to other world sites.
I must aggree that at time it is hard to get hold of there tech service people but when i have talked with them it has been a good experince.
Over all i am very happy with Eastlink service. | |
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| voltrez
VIP
join:2003-03-10
Dallas, TX | Re: Lee Bailey Well your lucky. I gave up on Eastlink because of their horrible tech support. And now they are capping peoples speeds at 9k a second, AT&T's Dialup is faster then that!, just adds more reason to stay away from them.
John
www.PEIinfo.com | |
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| | Azzkicka
join:2002-11-21
Lawrencetown., NS
| Re: Lee Bailey Don't go with Eastlink. I got capped and my speeds are just horrible now, the Internet is almost unusable now. I didnt know they automatically upgrade you to the business package if you go over 30 GB, does that come with a up in price? I didint even know there was a 30GB cap untill i got capped, and i can say for sure i wouldn't of got capped if they would of just told me. As it stands Eastlink is one of the worst highspeed isps i have ever had. Stay away from them! | |
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join:2002-12-19
Dartmouth, NS
| Re: Lee Bailey
The first is $89.95/month, same speeds as residential service, static ip, and rate limited to 40 gigs per month.
(these eastlink tech tards are stupid for thinking people will more that double the cost of thier service for 10 more gigs of downloads, makes more sense here to buy 2 resdiential lines)
The next busniess package is $400/month, 20 static ip's and unlimited down and uploads.
I dissagree with the capping, but I must say...the least these fools could do if offer some kind of intermediate package for home users. | |
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nemish
join:2003-04-06
Charlottetown, PE
|  Eastlink Petition
I, like many others, are signing a petition to remove the 30gig limit.
Please see this link: www.fourside.com/petition | |
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eastlinksux
@eastlink.ca
| Re: Eastlink Petition final word: Eastlink is a foodstamp isp, with less then foodstamp Techsupport (do you fellaz have your GED's?), owned privately by a guy who doesn't give a shit about his customers. Their speeds are awesome, but whats the point if you can't use the connection beyond 30 gigz.., Atleast other ISP's would notify their customers, provide a method for us to log in and check out used b/w... but no.. who gives a shit about the customers... dont even get me started on eastlink's billing process... and no, I didn't sign any acceptable use policy neither pplz.. makes you wonder about possible legal repercussions due to false ad's, unlimited always on connection my a$$. No notification, no method to monitor... hrm.. I think I'll email some of them work for winning retard lawyers...
Peace. | |
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| voltrez
VIP
join:2003-03-10
Dallas, TX | cancel, that will straighten them out. | |
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| marfanated
join:2002-12-19
Dartmouth, NS | Nice petition, backed up by real and truthfull stats.
I Hope everyone gets on board of this and lets eastlink know how they feel. Eastlink sucks right now with the new rate limiting. | |
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| voltrez
VIP
join:2003-03-10
Dallas, TX | do the SMART thing, CANCEL!
John
PEIinfo.com
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| marfanated
join:2002-12-19
Dartmouth, NS
| Easy to say "cancel", but basically we have 2 isp's in this area. Easlink 5mbit down, 1 mbit up(1mbit claimed but i've never seen it)rate limited to 30 gigs transfer / month
Then we have aliant, 1.6 mbit down, 40 k upload, unlimited.
Truth is, eastlink really stung thier customers on this. But, people will have to decide if the rate limits are too much for them. In my opinion, it's pretty easy to chew up 30 gigs in 1 month. After this, you'll be capped to near dial up speeds which really stinks! If this is important to you, yes, cancel and get aliant. Aliant is slower...but slow and steady wins the race!
As far as eastlink goes, ya, it's faster, but whats the point of going 500 mph if you can't even finish the quater mile??? | |
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| | Azzkicka
join:2002-11-21
Lawrencetown., NS
| Re: Eastlink Petition "As far as eastlink goes, ya, it's faster, but whats the point of going 500 mph if you can't even finish the quater mile???"
This is exactly what i think, and i would switch to Aliant DSL right now if they had service in my area. Unfortunatly Eastlink has the highspeed monopoly here  | |
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| | | marfanated
join:2002-12-19
Dartmouth, NS
| Re: Eastlink Petition
Eastlink (I know you are reading this), WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE. It's insane the way you have this implemented. Rendering a great speedy line to just 12.8k/sec after limit reached??? C'mon...we can hardly download a large jpeg like this!!!! I would also like to comment in the way you respond to customers who complain about the cap. You are quick to remind us that we, the people who get capped are the top %1 of your bandwidth users and that bandwidth is expensive. Does it not make sense then, that %99 of your customers are costing you very little in bandwidth. According to your very own arguements, you are gaining nicely from customers who download very little.
Several months ago, local newspapers did a story on Aliant changing thier speeds and the like. I have called these papers and explained that I don't think Eastlink should be immune from such stories. I explained to the Business Editor of the Halifax Herald Newspaper, what has been happening to me as a eastlink customer, and how I feel i've been shafted. I was told this was unlimited, and very fast, and that the service was designed for downloading large files (which eastlink still advertises to this day). As an example, home video dvdr's are 4.3 gigs each. You can crap out your eastlink connection in 2-3 days sharing your home videos with family members. I expect The Halifax herald to be doing a article in the near future. A place for all Nova Scotia residents to read at how this companies advertising and new policies can be "misleading". The current policies of rate limiting absolutely stink and being cut to 12k/sec is very very extreme. By the way..where's my 1mbit upload bandwidth you advertise?...i've never seen it! I've uploaded to some very fast places, and have seen a max of 45k/sec in the 4 months of being connected. Less than 1/2 of what you claim.
Oh well...I could go on forever, but I truely fell like i'm flogging a dead horse. While files get larger, and easlink gets worse, try'n to squeeze the people for every penny they can, I guess i'm left with no choice but to cancel my eastlink line. It's nowhere near what it says it is.
Last but not least eastlink, remember this in your meetings:
When people recieve a good product/service for a value price , they tell thier friends.
When people don't recieve what they originally paid for, they tell even more. The petitions circulating right now are far more widespread then the numbers you likely dicuss.
What does it take for you to realize you've made a mistake,
anti eastlink websites?
Good by, good riddance to a isp that is content to compare itself to other Canadian isp's and drop it's service so it can be at par, rather than excel, and be able to brag that they are the best. | |
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join:2003-05-21
Kentville, NS
| Re: Eastlink Petition Hey dude, im sure eastlink is upset that your pirating ass is gone from their service, however mpowered is no different, they where going to implement a 15 gig cap a while ago, instead they opted for a 1.5 mbit cap. The badwidth cap is coming soon. Most isps only offer around a 15 gig limit on download, 30 gig for up and 30 gig for down is more then resonble. Also not to mention any idiot with half a brain can remove the cap from their line. The motorola surfboards are not transparent and the cap is done on their end. You can uncap them using a simple downloadable program. Might i suggest using google and doing some research before you start complaining about eastlink cutting your bandwidth hogging ass, I for one cannot blame them, and im sure if you read the terms and agreement, you would see they are well within their rights to do this. | |
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join:2002-01-06
East Bay, NS
| Re: Eastlink Petition I agree with you fully, 30 GIG is a lot. I myself download a lot some times but not every single day... The only way that you can really get capped at 30 gig is go Download non stop Day and night. I have downloaded family video that has been converted to dvd, and downloaded Beta software, freeware, and even music, and to this day have never had a problem with the service. I have only lost connectivity 3 times since i had the service. 2 times were for Scheduled maintance which i have received an e-mail, and once an Amp went on the line, and needed repair. I have nothing but praise for the service, and when you think about it, it is the fastest provider in North America. most other companies you are lucky for you can get 2mbit down... so yes Eastlink is fast and it may be the choice for leechers, but even with all the DL'in i do i still have never had any kind of cap on my line, and i average 500-800KBytes (5mbit = something around 625KBytes) down from most sites (Also I am the only one on the NODE)... The people that are complaining about the CAP no matter what they say are the ones running FTP, IRC, KAZAA, WINMX, ETC Servers (Which i use occasionally). and the computers are on 24/7/365.... constantly DLin and ULin.. And you can not say that you are not.. And they have an extensive Collection Of SVCD's... I download my share of stuff on the net, but all i can say is you are lucky to still have an account.. As in the Eastlink contract, running a server of any kind is forbidden and is ground for account suspension or termination. So before you jump down their throat about their choices, read the full members agreement and other doccumation... Oh and before you flame me for someone who works for eastlink and that is why i am supporting them, i don't, i work for MSN Tech Support.. I am a firm believer that every computer owner should have a COMPUTER LICENSE, no different then a CAR, you are not legially allowed to drive a car without a LICENSE it should be the same with computers. If i woke up tomorrow and there was no internet, i would go do something else. it would come back on eventually.. And trust me working for tech support yah there is a lot of dumb people doing the support, and that is no different for any company... If you think the support sucks for any provider then go to google and find out how to fix it yourself or even eastlink.ca has walkthroughs for all their crap, and tech support does not always get any kind of notification if the lines are down and when it comes to cable there is only 4 things that a tech support agent can do with a can't connect.. (POWERCYCLE, PUSH CONNECTION, REBUILD CIRCUIT (Takes 15-30mins sometimes unless they are very familiar with doing it), OR ROLL A TRUCK). There is nothing else that can be done with cable unless the modem is fried... Tech support is only there for the 10% of the people who either have no clue and should not own a computer or for someone to call in and Bitch at (Hay ever hear of a POWERCYCLE?). Not for the actual tech support. 90% of call center training is customer service and how to operate their software to track the calls, not actual hardware training. | |
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join:2003-07-20
canada
| Their excuse was "we are doing this so that we can make sure everyone gets the same speed" ya well if everyone gets 12k the is for sure the same speed. 30 gigs is bullshit because in a house with 3 people who use the net a lot we get about a week of full speed. If they would have told me about it when i signed up instead of feeding me bullshit like unlimited high speed internet, well it certainly isn't unlimited. The main reason they are doing it if to be cheap bastards because they are greedy fukers and to make sure that p2p users are capped. If you have been reading up anything on the news it will probably be soon be less of a crime to walk into a cd store and steal 40 cds than download 1 song. | |
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| | | marfanated
join:2002-12-19
Dartmouth, NS
| One note I wanted posted in this fourm also that may be of interest to anyone try'n to decide if they wanted to go with eastlink or aliant.
Since I've been connected with eastlink i've had my connection cut to 12.8k/sec every month except for the very first month I bought the line, pretty much rendering my line useless untill the beginning of the new month.
I don't have 1 single solitary public file sharing program installed on my computer. No Napster, Morpheus, Kazzaa, Win Mx, ...nothing. If you plan on using any of these programs when you get connected, I would seriously consider what will happen to your connection. The limits imposed can easilly be chewed up quickly. Last month, on the 14th of the month,I tried to download a single .mp3, it was scheduled for 53 min download. I canceled the transfer.
Alot of isp's focus on your upload bandwidth when considering rate limits and capping.Eastlink looks both ways.
They should change thier advertising to look something like this:
EASTLINK HIGH SPEED, PERFECT FOR DOWNLOADING LARGE FILES, EXTREMELY FAST AND RELIABLE (for the first 7 days of each month).
Also, eastlink is very quick to point the finger at illegal files when talking about bandwidth abusers and people who download alot. Keep in mind, there are plenty of perfectly legal files, beta programs, music, freeware,shareware, paid for programs, updates, home video and dvd movies etc...
Eastlink seems to want to beat up the whole neighborhood because a few crooks live in it. | |
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join:2001-07-20
Halifax, NS
| well i just got off the phone with Eastlink discussing the bandwidth cap....
I was informed that the 30gig combined cap is in fact 30gig down & 30 gig up....
when your reach 30 gigs up or down then the cap is implemented....
say if you dl 29gigs then you can still upload up to 30 gigs as long as you don't go over the 30 gigs either way...
right now my dumeter is showing 25.32dl / 7.68 up... 33gig combined..im still going with full bandwidth.....no cap & no warning e-mail
at first when i called eastlink last month they told me that the cap was 30gig combined...
the person i was talking to today said the tech was mistaken and that it is 30gig down / 30gig up......
as soon as you go over 30 either way its capped...
just thought i would let you guyz know about the talk i had with them today...
BTW..I still think the cap stinks regardless..
[text was edited by author 2003-04-28 20:59:53] | |
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Azzkicka
join:2002-11-21
Lawrencetown., NS | Cap I have been over the download limit now since Saturday, but no cap. I dont know if my DUMeter is wrong or whether its been raised. Right now i am at 34.43GB Download, 11.87GB upload. maybe its 60GB combinded now? | |
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| jonner3
join:2003-04-03 | Re: Cap just dont complain. they have been doing it randolmy. i have been over my bandwidth every month. just waiting for my cap tho. | |
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xtr3m0
join:2003-06-05
| Huge latency since Aug 3 Now, for 2 straight days, I've been pinging at least 600ms to the first machine in the Eastlink network -- my download and upload speeds have both dropped to 10kB/s. I don't its a case of capping since its only beginning of the month.
Anyone else?.. | |
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| xtr3m0
join:2003-06-05 | Re: Huge latency since Aug 3 Phew, it's over now -- had something to do with my modem so I just replaced it.
By the way -- Eastlink's support has been GREAT. | |
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marfanated
join:2002-12-19
Dartmouth, NS
| Eastlink Eastlink made a mistake when they capped thier lines to 30 gigs down. They have since removed the cap and are truely un-limited as they advertise. I have been an eastlink customer for several years. I complained avidily when they capped. Now that they have removed the cap, I feel it's my duty to return and say some good things about them.
2005-02-09 21:31:09 EST: 4512 / 912
Your download speed : 4620298 bps, or 4512 kbps.
A 564 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 934361 bps, or 912 kbps.
For a home service cable provider, these speeds are quite nice. Eastlink, keep up the good work. I'm sure aliants customers will be jumping aboard in droves. | |
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anakin66
@eastlink.ca
| Price too high and torrent throttling unacceptable. Eastlink is priced far too high due to lack of competition and regulation. $55/month for standalone internet, and $96/month (both prices not including tax) for high speed bundled with regular full-tier cable. Upload speed is pathetically low for a 15 Mbit service (667 kbits), and the hateful practice of torrent throttling reduces speeds to dial-up or worse as at least 90% of all files are now shared through torrents.
I sometimes have trouble getting torrents to upload at 1 kB per second, while other times it jumps to 20 or 25 kB per second. Downloads are also severely limited unless you are visiting a site they have an agreement with. If there were more competition (any competition besides Aliant), Eastlink would not be getting my money. | |
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@eastlink.ca
| Re: Price too high and torrent throttling unacceptable. You couldn't be more wrong. Getting slow speeds on torrents is the end-users' fault for not properly setting up their home network. I constantly get high-speeds through Eastlink, and have for years, even when they capped users for downloading too much (which has since been abolished).
I think there is something seriously incorrect with your setup, as it reflects the complete opposite of the speeds I am able to attain. | |
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db1
@shawcable.net
| Just enable "transport encryption" in your torrent program and speeds will be back up to normal. (If your BT program doesn't have encryption, try Azureus.) Encrypted P2P traffic cannot be detected/throttled. So unless ALL internet traffic is throttled by your ISP*, encrypted torrents will work fine.
I've had both Rogers and Shaw high speed service, and neither can throttle encrypted torrents.
(*Of course, doing that would be corporate suicide!) | |
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gone
@eastlink.ca
| 
This is the fastest connection I have ever seen as far as downloading at least.
And for uploading, it's to be expected to be rather slow. | |
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| | shamrock_ns
join:2003-01-27
Dartmouth, NS
| Re: Price too high and torrent throttling unacceptable. I wish I had seen this thread before. I just got through posting about my irritation with Eastlink's throttling practices.
They don't even bother to hide it; just a little while ago a tech support rep told me right to my face (so to speak.) Encryption seems to help but I would love to have a way to defeat it altogether.
It's not a question of price vs. performance. It's a question of getting what you are paying for. Furthermore, I see no use in wasting money purchasing higher speed service from them than the 5Mbps I have now. As someone said in an earlier thread, who needs 15Mbps to listen to streaming audio? | |
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Cmck
@eastlink.ca | Speeds There is to much of a gap between the 5x faster and the 5 mb 's per second. should be at least a 2 mb per second system, at a moderate price. Eastlink Hi speed is very good , but so expensive | |
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hunterjb
join:2001-11-18
B3J2E1
 ·Eastlink Cable
1 edit | Speed Test When I do a speed test, my IP address won't resolve to the Eastlink domain. This seems to prevent me from recording my tests in with the over all Eastlink speed tests.
I was wondering if anything can be done about this, or if there is a way to work around this? | |
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horsemouth
Please Clarify My CSP
Premium
join:2002-03-13
canada | New work in the south end Halifax They seem to be spending Big $ | |
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willy37
@eastlink.ca | download speeds Constant inconsistancy. Everyday download speeds can run between ~3500 up to a very satifactory ~16000. Sackville NB WHY? | |
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zebra3
YOU CAN"T OUTRUN US.
Premium
join:2002-08-31
Truro, NS
·Eastlink Cable
| Re: download speeds said by willy37 :
Constant inconsistency. Everyday download speeds can run between ~3500 up to a very satisfactory ~16000. Sackville NB WHY?
I can feel for you...I am in Truro and I have been told by the tech support guys at Eastlink that I should expect 6 to 9 megs at the prime times of day and 12 to 15 at off hours. So basically I have a great connection if I am a night owl and a mediocre one at all other times!! BTW...Eastlink is coming out with a 20 meg service in the spring...just firming things up with Comcast stateside right now. It sounds like maybe an improvement may be in the works but I'm sure at a price. Maybe we will have 15 meg service by then...lol. Also my modem speed is down from Friday so maybe there is a small network problem with my area. | |
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@eastlink.ca | Thanks, Zebra3. I see your (their) point. But this is the Maritimes--not Toronto or New York. Is everybody downloading movies and music? Not in my neighbourhood, believe me. Willy37 | |
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zebra3
YOU CAN"T OUTRUN US.
Premium
join:2002-08-31
Truro, NS
·Eastlink Cable
| said by willy37 :
Constant inconsistency. Everyday download speeds can run between ~3500 up to a very satisfactory ~16000. Sackville NB WHY?
Well....supposedly the torrent users are throttled back to a near dial-up connections as soon as the system relealizes what they are doing so as to not use up all the bandwidth that is available on that node. If this is true then we should never see dramatic fluctuations in signal strength. Upon reading my modem this morning I see I am back 9.5db so all is well again...lol....for now! | |
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mattiegus
@direcway.com | chesley ontario east-link has taken over persona in Chelsey Ontario. does anyone have it and what are the speeds | |
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zebra3
YOU CAN"T OUTRUN US.
Premium
join:2002-08-31
Truro, NS
·Eastlink Cable
| Re: chesley ontario speeds »www.eastlink.ca/central/internet···ndex.asp
From what I see on their website they are offering you guys the same 15 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up under their Extreme Internet package as we get but at a slightly cheaper cost.
Not sure what your true speeds will be but I can say here in N.S. we get what is advertised.
Good luck | |
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mattiegus
@direcway.com | Re: chesley ontario speeds thanks for the response, i see the trucks around, guess i will just ask one of the guys, they will know the area and speeds | |
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Darmac23
@eastlink.ca
| Well I have to disagree with the above poster. We are supposed to get the high speed 15 at best we get 7Mps download and less then 1Mps upload. All we do is read the paper and play on a free gaming site called pogo. It is horrible, almost to the point of dial-up during peak times. | |
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hyped
@eastlink.ca
| Faster Speeds?! Hey Guy's im on Eastlink's 15/1 (Down/up) and its okay i guess.
But im wondering when Eastlink will provide more Speeds or even Fiber? Vios is getting 50 down and like 25 up.
Its just somthing that i would rather have, a faster internet connection. | |
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| rosscraig
join:2007-10-29
Trenton, ON | Re: Faster Speeds?! And what would you do with this service? Is there a site that is giving back at 50 MBps? | |
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| | acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada
| Re: Faster Speeds?! said by rosscraig  :And what would you do with this service? Is there a site that is giving back at 50 MBps? I could easily answer that! More upload speed is definitely a must, I am an amateur photographer and panoramas that are 20MB suck the life out of a 15/1 connection. I also process photos for others and sometimes just one panorama can comprise over 400MB.
As for the point the other person made, FiOS might be something appealing to want to happen up here. Unfortunately it's not such a rosy picture with FiOS. If you're living in a nonprofitable area you can find yourself dumped by Verizon and suddenly question what will happen to your service tomorrow. | |
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Corman
@eastlink.ca | There are all kinds of services that you can utilize faster speeds for. One thing in particular is news groups.
Eastlink is falling behind, and failing at improving its services. | |
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acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada
1 edit | Eastlink is now DNS Hijacking! A couple of days ago I noticed that mistyped urls were no longer bringing up blank pages but were coming up with not found eastlink branded pages.
With a little digging I found out an opt out option to which I chose to do. Fast forward a couple of days....I noticed I could no longer remote desktop from my laptop to my desktop and computer names were resolving through to search.eastlink.ca.
Eastlink, bless their hearts, has decided to dabble in DNS hijacking. I've now opted out twice from this, it's nice that they haven't informed any of their customers to what they are doing.
So if you're wondering why your computer names no longer resolve properly, you know now!
Google thread: »groups.google.com/group/hfx.gene···ot&pli=1
To opt out: »searchmanager.eastlink.ca/optout···ink&lang | |
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EastlinkCust
@eastlink.ca
| Re: Eastlink is now DNS Hijacking! Your completely wrong on the whole "DNS hijacking" Sorry but you need to use wiki or something before you say stuff like this. Let me explain:
This is not DNS hijacking, all it simply is "supposed" to be instead of getting pages saying "this site/server could not be found" Or other pages (microsoft bing seems to be the most common) when you mistakenly type in the wrong name like: www.outube.com it will give you a list of most popular sites which youtube will definitely be one of them.
Why don't you also make a post about Google and Microsoft bing hijacking you pc with software add-ons? All Eastlink is doing is controlling it right from their server/network, and that is nothing near hijacking. | |
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join:2004-07-14
Canada
| Re: Eastlink is now DNS Hijacking! This is not software hijacking, trojans or anything of the sort.
Earlier in the week I noticed they had taken over mistyped urls and saw the eastlink logo at the top. I looked for the option to opt out and I did. I thought nothing more about it until I noticed that I could no longer access my desktop via remote desktop and VPN stopped working. Bringing up a command prompt window and pinging those machines got me replies through search.eastlink.ca and not the usual 192.168.X.X reply.
It is a form of hijacking when internal network name queries no longer function correctly. When I opted out for a second time, I could then ping my desktop correctly and get a reply from something other than 199.101.28.10. Must I post a screenshot of how bad of an implementation Eastlink did of this? | |
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EastlinkCust
@eastlink.ca | Well to be honest I do know good and bad stories of it. It is something new and trust me they are trying to work out the bugs, they recently just came out with this new idea only a few weeks ago, like anything new, bugs will need to be worked out. | |
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| | acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada | Re: Eastlink is now DNS Hijacking! Hopefully that includes not breaking internal networking
Just rebooting the modem resets your opt out, I hope they tie the opt out to mac-id's so it's a one time thing. | |
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justmehere
@eastlink.ca
| Keep losing internet I'm in Halifax, and my internet keeps disconnecting literally ever 5 - 10 minutes on all 3 computers in my house. All of the lights are on, but can't connect to anything. I'm constantly having to unplug the modem and plug it back in to get my internet back. Tech support says the problem has to be on my end, and to try going wireless. One of the computers is wireless though, with the same thing happening at the same time, and I get the generic 'shut down computer, unplug everthing, wait 5 minutes and try again' speech. I've done that, it doesn't last long before it's out again, so I call back, get the same speech, tell them I've done it and they tell me to call the router company. Call them, they say call ISP. I can't win! | |
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On another side note, I havn't had a single hick-up in my line for...can't even remember the last time. Connection very very solid, always on...and super fast. I love it. Exellent ISP, I strongly reccommend. 