| Great Link! - Find Canadian ISPs!! Hey Fellow Canadians,
Here is a fantastic link to site that links Canadian ISPs that offer Broadband connections. You can see there are still plenty of Broadband ISPs that offer great speeds and no transfer caps! Another great thing about this link, is that I didn't even realize that we had so many options!
AEI is looking sweet right about now to me!
DSL 1200/160 (kb/sec) $ 29.95
3500/800 (kb/sec) $ 49.95
However they do state that they impose a 20 gig/month transfer limit. Even still, I was doing some research and some have said that they don't impose that.
If you remember awhile back, I went to Telus aDSL...and they state a bandwidth cap on their website, however when I spoke to various customer service reps, they all said that they don't impose it. Go figure.
Anyhow....that 3500/800 ((crazy upstream!)) is looking very sweet to me. There are other ISPs on the site that I'm about to refer you too that equal this speed, mabye for $20 more .. and no caps. Search around as I haven't went too deep into the site myself yet.
I would love to hear all of your opinions on the various companies you have found there, and which ones you think would be a good choice - and why, and whether or not you're going to make the switcheroo as well!
»www.canadianisp.com
Click on your respective province in the top bar of the site and do a search for your city.
Cheers!
Heineken |
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 Bob CarrickPremium,ExMod 2002
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New York, NY | I just have to say thanks for talking so kindly about my new website. We are getting new ISPs signing up every week, building new tools every week, the site is only 16 days old so it's really young and we have so many plans coming for the site.
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| Hey Bob!! 
hehe..I saw you post the link, and I didn't even realize that it was your website. That's a wonderful thing you got going on for us in Canada, and I thank you very much! So far your site is very interactive, informative and has a great layout! I really like the fact where people can make reviews on their respective ISPs, as well as the rating scheme you have for people to enter in their opinions. It's hard sometimes finding sites, where you have to click each link, go directly to their site....scan until you finally find the pricing speed down/up....on your site it's all there, and I really like that!
Good luck on the site, I hope to see you around for a very long time. Regarding another Canadian ISP that I didn't see mentioned there is Telus aDSL..and they are expanding across Canada, recently making their move into Ontario.
Thanks again Bob
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 ExitPremium,ExMod 2002
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Heineken just so you know AEI has a download cap. They let you have 20/20GBytes so its not that bad and the speed rocks. I have been looking at them for a week or so to now and I like what I am seeing.
Steve
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I'm looking into AEI too, I just sent my availability check in. |
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Glad to hear that both of you are looking into AEI I'm seriously considering them now too. Hell for 3500/800 for generally the same cost I'm paying Rogers $49.95 ...this seems like a SWEET deal!
Again, my main concern about this would be latency issues compared to Rogers....
Quad....what if AEI does strictly enforce the 20/20gb max transfer limit per month....how many hours a day would you figure we'd have to play on Gamespy a month in order to surpass this limit? Also, do you figure when XBOX Live comes out, this limit won't even be an issue.
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Hey Crunch,
What made you decide to look into AEI over IGS (Information Gateway Services) Hear anything better about AEI or anything that makes you feel more secure going with them?
IGS offers 3000/800 at the same price as AEI without the transfer cap:
»www.canadianisp.com/cgi-bin/isps···Services
Finally ... 1 more question.
I'm assuming these services are DSL. Telus offers aDSL at 2500/600 ... even though Telus is slower in transfer speed, would latency be better due to the fact it's aDSL and not just regular DSL? I don't quite understand the difference. |
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X-Box Live will still run through your existing ISP, I don't know why it's so hard to introduce a service, many companies are already dominating the market.
20/20GB's, is ENOUGH You should download either DU Meter or Analog X Netstat, and measure yourself how much bandwidth you use...
The average person (and I know some people will disagree) spends about 2-3GB's a month, 20/20 is plenty, I can see clearly now the bitcap's higher..Heh, 20/20.
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| hind sight and all of that lol
Did you check out IGS? They're looking pretty nice about now. Just want to make sure their package offers 3000/800 for the $49.99 stated on the canadianisp.com website, and if they confirm it, and I'm closer to their CO than I am to AEI's .. I might just go with them. No transfer caps with them and servers are aloud. Just wondering what would make someone choose AEI or IGS so I don't make a mistake and choose the wrong one  |
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 dirtyjefferAnons on ignore, but not due to fear.Premium
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London, ON | reply to Heineken77
said by Heineken77:
I'm assuming these services are DSL. Telus offers aDSL at 2500/600 ... even though Telus is slower in transfer speed, would latency be better due to the fact it's aDSL and not just regular DSL? I don't quite understand the difference.
DSL stands for digital subscriber line..aDSl is asymetric DSL, which means the upload is a slower speed than the download speed, sDSL, or symetric DSL means the upload and download speeds are the same, there are also other forms of DSL, but aDSL is the most popular-their really isn't such a thing as regular DSL-there are just several different kinds of DSL technologies.
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dirtyjefferAnons on ignore, but not due to fear.Premium
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London, ON | reply to Heineken77
said by Heineken77:
...and if they confirm it, and I'm closer to their CO than I am to AEI's .. I might just go with them.
the CO is a fixed point where your telephone wires are connected to... therefore your distance to the CO, is always going to be the same regardless of who your ISP is.
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No IGS here, these are my only options.
[text was edited by author 2002-06-30 22:27:28] |
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| Yes it is there
IGS ... Information Gateway Services |
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Thank you for the clarification Jeffer....appreciated greatly |
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said by Heineken77:
Yes it is there
IGS ... Information Gateway Services
Oh yeah..lol
Excuse me, I'm a little slow today. =P
They both look very good, I'm gonna start to compare each one right now.
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I think IGS looks better, they offer Static IP's and servers are allowed, so they get a checkmark in my books. w00t!
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Yeah, okay I'm changing my ISP A.S.A.P. they're both available in my area. w00t! w00t!!!
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Hey Heineken, here is an ISP that cares.
»www.ott.igs.net/features.html
Quake3 Server??..GET OUTTA HERE!!! =] 
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LOL! Don't worry Quad bro, I'm slow most of the time...so for you being slow today...it just doesn't add up to me yet 
IGS looks sweet! Like you said w00t!! Servers aloud...Quake server! They're sounding real nice, and to top it off no transfer caps. I'm going to give them a call when their offices are open, going to call AEI as well, and I'm going to switch to one of the two very soon as both of them offer service to my area as well
Will keep you all informed, and would like to here info as you guys find out more, and would be interested in finding out what you finally decide!
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| ya know what... igs keeps changing their availability page. 2 days ago, i wasn't eligible for the 3000/800 service. then yesterday, i was. and now, i can't again. their availibilty results page looks different too. 2 days ago, it was a plain page. then yesterday, there was a legend and stuff. now today, it's regular again. what gives? |
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