shabdizi
join:2009-03-22
Beaconsfield, QC
 ·Videotron
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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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jeanc1
join:2001-07-02
Quebec, QC
·Videotron
| 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.
Have a great day ! |
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Acanac Inc
Premium
join:2007-03-05
Mississauga, ON
4 edits | " 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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shabdizi
join:2009-03-22
Beaconsfield, QC
·Videotron
| 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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