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[DSL] Teksavvy, make yourself more appealing to students!

BHELL likes to enslave you with contracts , then when those expire expect to be bent over and pay the full price $$ The ridiculous caps and overage charges can really add up . Then if you want to speak with a CSR you'll get someone in India on a pole reading off a script NO THANKS ... Just get the DSL 6 with the cap you require and enjoy NO contract and save $$ ! Note : you will need a dryloop if you have no landline , which will be extra

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Hmmm let's do some math.

Bell 25/10
$44.95/mo for the first 6 months and thereafter it's $59.95/mo and for that nice fee you only get 125GB of usage.

TekSavvy 15/1
$42.99/mo for 75GB of usage.
$45.99/mo for 300GB of usage.
$59.99/mo for unlimited usage.

TekSavvy 25/10
$52.99/mo for 300GB of usage.
$77.99/mo for unlimited usage.

All of TekSavvy's capped tiers offer an unlimited download window between 2AM - 8AM every day, so in reality you can get a capped plan with dry loop and still pay almost the same as with Bell and get a much larger cap.

Yes there is a $95 activation and the dry loop fee but for the higher caps it's worth it in the long run.

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You could also get a cable internet connection which only has a $65 activation fee and no activation fee.

But remember this marketing campaign is a direct response to their loss of customers due to third parties taking their customers, as well as basically back-to-school for students only - an 8 month discount.

The average student only needs internet for 8 months and then goes back home with their parents and uses their internet. So unfortunately for tek they can't compete unless they decide to perhaps drop/lower the install fees for students (who already pay a lot in school).
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Ya the promos targetting students but anyone who wants it can call in and get it,
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I think with all the extra money students have for Iphones,Mac Book Pros TSI should charge them more. If anything normal customers should get discounts before students.

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This is not meant to hijack, but I have some related questions about Teksavvy's 25/7 or 10 service.

I'm with TS with cable right now and been relatively happy since I've been with them. I now need better upload speeds for the work I'm doing, so I'm considering the 25/7 service for $53.

So the costs are $95 installation, $8/month modem rental and the $53/month service fee.

I've seen CellPipe 7130 modems for sale on Kijiji. I'm assuming these are people who chose not to return modems to Bell and are trying to make a quick buck at the expense of a sucker?

Can you buy a modem and use with Teksavvy, and avoid the $8/month rental fee?

That nasty $8 rental fee is Mandatory, whether or not you own the modem. See the CRTC Tariff's, its outlined therein. It sucks, but thats the way it is for DSL users. Cable subscribers aren't affected.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Does anyone know how long the install will take? There's a Bell landline in the house, so it won't be dry loop.

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what appealed to me with rogers when i was in college was at that time i was allowed to run my own services which for an IT student is exactly what one needs to learn more and faster .....

yea they went stupid and here's the story....
i was making custom firewall software and ran a simple almost unknown webserver called the viking webserver ( fits ona floppy so its handy and it had perl and cgi bin abilities) ( 1997ish)

well i went to work and im gathering forgot to turn off the pc, when i got home the modem had a red light and the only explanation i could get out of rogers was and this shocked me that cause they could not scan inside past my custom firewall they terminated the service.

WHAT? And you all wonder why i refuse to ever use rogers again.....
they suggested zone alarm that had a known exploit on a certain port....my guess is rogers is very very nosey and i hate to say this, but i want this known nothing illegal wasn't downloading nothing was just making my own software....you want people access to stuff like teksavvy allows you with less caps so they can experiment and it makes us teksavvy users a bit more knowledgeable. Teksavvy needs to push on that and the past indiscretions of others isps within reason ( so they dont get sued say)

like make a page with examples of all the cool stuff one can run from home and include links to sourceforge and other free software places....like apachefriends.org.

remember my father got me a commodore vic 20 in 1980.
what has your parents done for you?

Imagine your 12 year old making his own games and looking at costs of todays games that saves a parent a lot a doh, gives the kid some skills he might in this copyright crazy world a leg up .

This is all about marketing ....Teksavvy already is pallatable to students. ONLY thing that i'd wish is that we could run email servers normally so i can also teach people how to set them up and run them( without a modification to port use that is to bypass the restriction BELL and your govt pushes on you so they can spy on all communications and know whom you are talking too [only reason besides spam that restriction is there and spam is limited anyhow by bandwidth up speed])

now for a package like this the home servering use you could if bell wasn't so bad to you have tiers of upspeeds , regular 1 megabit, 2 4 5 and 7.

i ran 10 million unique ips on 2 megabit(1999) so that gives you a hint what you can do .....
900 websites
1 text based online game THAT no one on earth at time but us got working ( the original coder had made so many bugs it took me and 4 others 3 months to sort them all out and we just ended up redoing huge sections of code so that finished game.

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adlib im using my own net for this and testing stuff out , i have a gigabit server out there for production scale and the talk might be that as we go along we may push up to a 10 gigabit server for what we aim to do.