speckledfrog
join:2009-11-04
 ·Bell Sympatico
|  Best Internet Service in Orangeville
I'm using Bell Sympatico and it sucks. I get incredible latancy issues randomly throughout the day/night and i was wondering what your experiences with different internet companies in Orangeville are like.
Cable, or DSL? Does switching companies even matter since they're all using Bells wiring anyways? I've heard good things about Teksavvy but am not sure about their service in Orangeville..please give me some insight into your service in the area! |
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GNca George
GorillaNET
Premium
join:2008-07-12
Minden, ON
| We are considering doing something in Orangeville.
If we do, it will be very fast, reasonably priced and with a free install, free trial period, 100% satisfaction guarantee and no contract.
Bracebridge,Port Perry, Uxbridge and Ballantrae are also high on the shortlist.
The first beta rollout is going to be Huntsville, starting in about 2 weeks. We are just finishing the fibre hookup today.
Moonlighting is an unusual twist. We are not planning on counting any throughput between Midnight and 6am towards your monthly allowance.
If we can figure out how to make it work properly, we may also provide a bandwidth upgrade during those hours as well. No point in letting the network sit quietly if you can use that capacity to make customers happy.
We will be putting more detail on the website, which will be up and running by the end of next week. The price points we are considering are attached, feedback is welcome.
George
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Chuck Carlso
@bell.ca | reply to speckledfrog
I know Orangeville is up north but my goodness Ottawa is like light-years north compared to Orangeville. Seems the farther north you go the more problems people have. |
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cpsycho
join:2008-06-03
Orangeville, ON
·Wightman Telecom
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
2 edits | reply to speckledfrog
Wightman Telecom is very nice and reasonably priced. You are still restricted to the distance from the CO, but you cant do much about that.
The customer support is amazing.
They also have DSLAMs in bells CO.
Edit:
There is no bandwidth cap as well. |
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notchy
join:2009-10-28
North York, ON | reply to GNca George
Will you be offering service in Innisfil Ontario? |
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GNca George
GorillaNET
Premium
join:2008-07-12
Minden, ON
| said by notchy  :Will you be offering service in Innisfil Ontario? Innisfil is certainly interesting. Its the right size, lots of newer areas with reasonable housing density and without too many trees. Need to find an existing (non Cellco) tower site or some high ground to make it work. I know there is quite a bit of existing fibre in the area for backhaul...
George
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Tough Broadband for a Tough Crowd!
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va3atc
join:2008-01-10
1 edit | reply to GNca George
George I pay the same rate for your 20mbps after overages for a fraction of the usage with Rogers. If you come to southeast London your guaranteed a customer if that's not DSL; too far from CO for anything decent.
Edit: I see it's wireless. Curios if you were to roll out in multiple areas would you consider supporting a form of roaming? |
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va3atc
join:2008-01-10
| reply to GNca George
I would predict your using specialized wireless equipment, therefore I'd like to be specific with my roaming idea. I'd like to have access to specific locations like a restaurant at dial-up or more speeds.
Offer existing customers near restaurants a wireless router with radius pre-configured. Ask them to connect it to their existing LAN and use neighbors around to spread out the signal with stand alone routers using WDS as repeaters. Those neighbors could be potential low-speed customers with their usage tracked through radius.
specialized wireless equipment > customers LAN > free router with pre-configured radius.
I spend approx $15/month at Coffee Culture in Tillsonburg every week just checking my e-mail and booking appointments. The roaming idea is so I could cut down on the coffees 
Steve |
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GNca George
GorillaNET
Premium
join:2008-07-12
Minden, ON
| reply to va3atc
said by va3atc :Curios if you were to roll out in multiple areas would you consider supporting a form of roaming? Yes. We are doing a bit today with Hotspots, and plan on growing that going forward. We use NetNearU currently, they do a pretty decent job and provide 24/7 support on a revenue split basis although we may bring that back in house.
It seems appropriate to give our fixed wireless customers a mobile login too. With a list of hotspots on a web page it should be fairly easy to pick one close by.
I'm a big fan of trading location for service as you described. We do that a LOT with our rural services today. Everybody wins and it keeps costs down.
George
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Tough Broadband for a Tough Crowd!
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