| reply to distgre123
Good/Cheap Montreal ISP for DSL Hi,
Di> Can anyone suggest a ISP that's cheap (29.99 a
Di> month) and has UNLIMITED bandwidth without
Di> packet filtering?
This can be tougher to answer than it sounds: the
typical ISP Web site feels like it's designed in a
way to keep us from moving on. Perhaps the intent
is that, once an eventual customer has monopolized
enough time and skills to gather information he is
really asking for, euh... the corresponding value
of that data could be amplified after he worked so
hard to get it. The next thing we know, customers
who fell for it might very well become emotionally
involved with the ISP they chose because a natural
tendency is to protect what we work for (who likes
to invest efforts in vain, after all?)... This is
a personal opinion only but it turns out one needs
to browse/phone for a whole day (and perhaps a lot
more) simply to investigate the ISPs listed below:
English
French
Now, if one wishes to get appreciations from other
customers i bet it's a matter of weeks! In my own
case, there's another variable to consider: there
must be no insistance from the ISP about having my
personal credit-card/banking information released,
while the mainstream tendency is exactly opposite.
I didn't find many i'll consider on a trial basis,
only a few can agree over payment done using bank-
certified counter-checks or postal money orders if
sent in advance for no more than three months in a
row. Representative reactions ranged from empathy
to being called a "paranoid" man, i suspect asking
for assistance in configuring a MoDem/Router would
get me close to zero candidatures so, euh... i'll
just have to drop such requirement. At the end of
the day, five ISPs seemed to be worth a follow-up:
C.A.M., one month money order
ExecuLink, two months money order
ISP Canada, two months money order
TekSavvy/1stAccess, three months money order
ZiD, call
If one will agree on paying from six months to one
year in advance, these ISP might also be worth it:
3web/CyberSurf (IStop), 1 year
Distributel, 6 months
Inter.Net, 1 year
Magma/Primus, call
I'm not positive about some of these but it's like
i must count them in the credit-card/pre-autorized
payment category (checking them all is tiresome!):
AEI
Altima
B2B2C/Arobas
Look
Oricom
RadioActif
Rocler
SecureNet
SogeTel*
Sympatico/Bell*
Telus/GlobeTrotter
I'm afraid some errors may have slipped thru but i
did verify that those with a star (*) besides only
accept credit-card/pre-autorized payment; i can't
pretend that i could check them all fully, though.
In any case, what i'm trying to illustrate here is
some questions sound simpler than they really are!
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