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 ·TekSavvy Cable
| [Cable] VMedia is Cable Internet Crazy!! Oh God... 45/4/unlimited cable Internet packagefor $53/month... There must be a catch! Teksavvy is going to be charging $100 for the same service! Start is charging $60 with 300GB download usage cap. How can VMedia do this without taking either a severe loss, or run into financial difficulties in the future? All the major IISPs (Teksavvy, Acanac) are offering Internet packages nowhere close to that.
When I posted in the VMedia thread, I got confirmation that you don't need their IPTV service so... WOW. |
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 elitefx
join:2011-02-14
London, ON
kudos:1 | Yup. 25/2 unlimited $39 45/4 unlimited $52. Currently, VMedia is available in the Greater Toronto Area; south of Barrie to Downtown, Burlington to Oshawa - as well as Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Cornwall, Chatham and North Bay.
They expect to be expanding to all of Ontario by June, 2013 with a rollout to the rest of Canada to follow.
You just can't argue with great prices and unlimited bandwidth. Finally, an ISP that puts the value back into cable Internet pricing. |
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xdrag
join:2005-02-18
North York, ON | reply to geokilla
That is amazing, might wait for a few reviews and consider to jump ship.
Perhaps they make most of their $$$$ from IPTV. Hence they can afford to lose a bit on cable but make even more from their TV service. |
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| reply to geokilla
they said that cable internet is provided from CIK. |
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| They have alot of errors on website so I'm not settled on them being good.
HIGH SPEED FTTN 15
Up to 15 Mbps Down / 10 Mbps Up
they say:
Mandatory professional installation fee is $99.95
Customers have a choice of using their own ADSL2+ modem, purchasing a premium VMedia modem for $59.95 or renting it for $5.95/month.
15/10 is VDSL not ADSL. |
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·TekSavvy Cable
| reply to BTC Kevin
said by BTC Kevin:they said that cable internet is provided from CIK.
What? Where? I don't recall reading that on both RFD and DSLR. |
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TypeS
join:2012-12-17
London, ON Reviews:
·TekSavvy Cable
| said by geokilla:said by BTC Kevin:they said that cable internet is provided from CIK.
What? Where? I don't recall reading that on both RFD and DSLR. Right here: »VMedia Launches ... |
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| I confirmed with george though they are reselling CIKTEL, they are providing the support themselves.
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yyzlhr
join:2012-09-03
Scarborough, ON
kudos:1 | reply to geokilla
They are a reseller of CIK on the cable side. There are people on this forum complaining that CIK has not purchased enough capacity leading to severe slow-downs during peak hours. You get what you pay for. |
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| said by yyzlhr:They are a reseller of CIK on the cable side. There are people on this forum complaining that CIK has not purchased enough capacity leading to severe slow-downs during peak hours. You get what you pay for.
Apparently that's been resolved:
quote:
March 16th
Hello Valued Customer,
We are happy to inform you the slow speed issue caused by Rogers has been solved in the afternoon of March 14. CIK is the first ISP using 10GE fiber interconnecting with Rogers. Rogers had no such experience before. Rogers setup wrong values for some settings.
We have monitored network traffic two days and the rush hour issue does not appear.
We have noticed Rogers to connect the 2nd 10GE fiber. We will upgrade rest of Rogers areas within next 2-3 months.
CIK will keep upgrading our network to meet the customer requirements of fastest speed and unlimited downloading.
Thank you for using CIK Telecom,
Jordan Deng
Chief Executive Officer
www.ciktel.com
The price for 45/4 is the lowest I have been able to find aside from CIK Telecom's promotion which is $49.99 currently. |
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TypeS
join:2012-12-17
London, ON Reviews:
·TekSavvy Cable
| That honestly sounds like corporate FUD to me, they can't seriously be the first ones to use 10GE, not when there were other IISPs on Agg-POI before them.
Also the email implies they only have one 10GbE connection right now, correct me if I'm wrong here but other IISPs have a lot more bandwidth going on their backhauls (even on dis-agg POI) than that. |
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xdrag
join:2005-02-18
North York, ON | reply to geokilla
Not worth the adventure right now.
I'll wait for a few reviews before jumping ship if needed. The pricing is VERY good but $100 install fee is STEEP. I rather go to start for a quick change. Start has generally good reviews comparable to TSI |
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| to xdrag:
no, their installation fee is $65 (google vmedia).
They have "sister" company vianettv and they used to charge $100 but now it's $63.53.
I'm with local guys on DSL and shopping around to switch to cable (want to get rid of my bell phone).
Still undecided... |
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·TekSavvy Cable
| reply to yyzlhr
said by yyzlhr:They are a reseller of CIK on the cable side. There are people on this forum complaining that CIK has not purchased enough capacity leading to severe slow-downs during peak hours. You get what you pay for.
This would never happen with Teksavvy. Give me break the forum is filled with complains about slow speeds on TSI and over sold POI's. |
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| reply to xdrag
said by xdrag:Not worth the adventure right now.
I'll wait for a few reviews before jumping ship if needed. The pricing is VERY good but $100 install fee is STEEP. I rather go to start for a quick change. Start has generally good reviews comparable to TSI
quote:
Mandatory installation fee is $65.
»www.vmedia.ca/internet/cable-b.aspx |
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