Sanek
join:2006-08-10
Kanata, ON | reply to HTCC
Re: CIK Telecom - 150M*/10M - Unlimited They have some nice plans, but the fact that I never really heard about them before and all the Chinese stuff is very worrying to me. My main concerns are:
1. There is barely any feedback as to the actual speeds being provided and their practices. Assuming they are on aggregated, wouldn't capacity concerns be up to Rogers? Throttling during the peak hours would be understandable, but I don't see them saying anything about that.
2. Support - it would really worry me if their support staff all spoke broken English. Again - not much feedback there.
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I agree it isn't a bad way to operate. It just explains why they can offer lower rates than some of the competition. People coming in and expecting to get the same quality of service 24/7 maybe are not going to be happy. |
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Well, $100 for Unlimited 150/10 is not bad at all, I will have to think about it. $40 for Unlimited $25/2 is also very nice when it does come online in GTA. |
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 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | reply to HTCC
I asked 4 days ago about throttling, still waiting on an answer. |
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 GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3
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| said by elwoodblues:I asked 4 days ago about throttling, still waiting on an answer. They probably don't have a throttling policy per se, rather they probably only purchase x capacity from Rogers, and when that capacity is reached everyone slows down. |
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DFW
join:2013-03-23
North York, ON Reviews:
 ·CIKTEL Telecom
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Signed up with them for 25/10 DSL as of Thursday. Been reading these forums a long time and decided to register to review this ISP since there's not a lot of info out there. I'll wait a week or so before posting a review but here are some early impressions:
1. Language - during signup process, I spoke with two or three people on the phone. All spoke well and I had no difficulty understanding them. I also spoke with a tech on the installation date and, again, no problem understanding him. I think this is an overrated non issue.
2. Performance/congestion/throttling - don't know yet. I have tried to do speed tests at various times of the day but every time I detect a slow down (so far, for about an hour in late morning and just less than an hour between 9 and 10 pm), I find that a family member has been streaming while another downloading despite my request for a pause for the test. I'll have a better idea in a week but I can say that it has never gotten so slow that anyone noticed while surfing.
So far, so good. But it's too soon to judge congestion/throttling issues. I'll post a review when I have more data. |
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GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3 | reply to HTCC
Does anyone have any experience with these guys on Cogeco's network? |
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Sanek
join:2006-08-10
Kanata, ON | reply to HTCC
Anyone give their 150/10 plan a try? |
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Satya
join:2011-09-11
Mississauga, ON | reply to HTCC
redflagdeals has a lot of bad reviews about them..not going to even try with them for a cheaper price i will watch from outside the boundary. |
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HTCC
join:2013-03-18
Innisfil, ON | reply to Sanek
I have been using the CIK Telecom - 150M*/10M - Unlimited and Loving it.
No Problems and Fast speed |
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GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3 Reviews:
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| said by HTCC:I have been using the CIK Telecom - 150M*/10M - Unlimited and Loving it.
No Problems and Fast speed You able to post a traceroute to Google, DSLR and a few other websites? I'm curious to see what their routing is like. |
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Does their availability checker tool actually work. I tried using it and all it does is take me to the order page without showing whether their highest tier plan is available or not. |
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DFW
join:2013-03-23
North York, ON Reviews:
·CIKTEL Telecom
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C:\>tracert www.google.ca
Tracing route to www.google.ca [74.125.226.87]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 tracert www.dslreports.com
Tracing route to www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 tracert www.yahoo.com
Tracing route to ds-any-fp3-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com [98.139.183.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms mynetwork.home [192.168.2.1]
2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 192.168.30.6
3 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms 10.10.10.1
4 5 ms 5 ms 13 ms 204.197.190.162
5 5 ms 12 ms 5 ms v604.core1.tor1.he.net [209.51.164.49]
6 26 ms 24 ms 24 ms 10gigabitethernet3-1.core1.nyc5.he.net [184.105.
213.193]
7 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms yahoo.tienyc.telxgroup.net [206.126.115.19]
8 31 ms 30 ms 27 ms ae-5.pat1.bfz.yahoo.com [216.115.96.65]
9 31 ms 28 ms 28 ms ae-3.msr2.bf1.yahoo.com [216.115.100.31]
10 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms xe-3-0-0.clr2-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.232.99
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11 42 ms 31 ms 28 ms UNKNOWN-98-139-128-X.yahoo.com [98.139.128.83]
12 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms po-11.bas2-7-prd.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.129.179]
13 61 ms 47 ms 58 ms ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.183.24]
Trace complete. |
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DFW
join:2013-03-23
North York, ON Reviews:
·CIKTEL Telecom
| That didn't seem to paste quite right. Here is the one for dslr:
C:\>tracert www.dslreports.com
Tracing route to www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms mynetwork.home [192.168.2.1]
2 6 ms 6 ms 5 ms 192.168.30.6
3 6 ms 6 ms 5 ms 10.10.10.1
4 13 ms 6 ms 5 ms 204.197.190.162
5 10 ms 5 ms 6 ms v604.core1.tor1.he.net [209.51.164.49]
6 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms gw-nac.torontointernetxchange.net [206.108.34.38
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7 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 0.e1-4.tbr1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.122]
8 17 ms 17 ms 18 ms vlan804.esd1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.2]
9 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
Trace complete. |
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So is anyone actually getting good speeds during peak time? |
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DFW
join:2013-03-23
North York, ON Reviews:
·CIKTEL Telecom
| Had the 25/10 for just under a couple of weeks now and have yet to see a speed test under full down and at least 95% up when other family members aren't distorting the test by downloading the internet! I keep looking for a congestion or slowdown period but have yet to find one, not that I am online 24/7. |
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 ·TekSavvy Cable
| said by DFW:Had the 25/10 for just under a couple of weeks now and have yet to see a speed test under full down and at least 95% up when other family members aren't distorting the test by downloading the internet! I keep looking for a congestion or slowdown period but have yet to find one, not that I am online 24/7.
That's DSL though, not cable. People are mainly interested in cable I believe.. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
join:2009-06-15
START&Cogeco
kudos:6 | reply to Gone
said by elwoodblues:I asked 4 days ago about throttling, still waiting on an answer.
It seems that their ANSWERS are throttled.  |
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·TekSavvy Cable
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·TekSavvy DSL
| I asked them for their Fair Usage policy and they provided me the snippet about harming networks not very useful information. or clear in anyway hence i chose not to deal with ciktel.
This is what i got as a response for a copy of their fair usage policy
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1.9 Unlimited downloading: CIK might provide unlimited internet upload/download with or without conditions which is based on residential customers normal usage, if abnormal usage or malicious activities detected which endangers CIK network, CIK might suspend customer’s service without notice. CIK unlimited internet downloading policy is also governed by CRTC rules and decision, government laws, and Rogers/Bell’s policy which if any change, CIK will notice customers by email 30 days in advance at least.
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EDIT: Distributel messed up, fuck their 30day cancellation shit, if it says 30 days it should be fucking 30 days not fucking 38 or so days |
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