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@bell.ca
| Rogers will Throttle 3Web silly Rogers has the green light to throttle the cable resellers thus bringing them to their *knees*. This is just what 3Web needs to give them the wake-up call of their life. Har, har, har it couldn't happen to a nicer company. How does 3ThrottledWeb sound? | |
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| | tonygets
join:2005-11-10
Scarborough, ON
| Re: Rogers will Throttle 3Web silly When will this happen? i just recently logged speeds of 1000KB/s on bit commet. downloaded 700meg under 15 mins.
Been with them ever since rogers started throttling in my area. All good things will one day come to an end.
DSL is no good in my area. top speed is maybe a 2MegaBit conection in my neighbourhood.
Can anyone recomend any substitues.
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Oinktastic
join:2005-08-24
Scarborough
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
 ·3 Web
1 edit | Re: Rogers will Throttle 3Web silly For the most part, I'm content with my 3web service as well and I've had it since 2005. As far as I know there are no other cable internet providers in my area (Scarborough Ontario) besides them and R*gers.
I still frequently receive very good download speeds of ~7Mbit which is where my connection is capped. I have not experienced any throttling and will let everyone here know the minute that I do notice anything like that. | |
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wanderingcat
| Thanks i am also considering to switch to 3web since Rogers is going to increase the price by ~10% !
but seems now 3web's cable internet is only availalbe in the west: »https://www2.cia.com/products/highspeed.html
I entered a Vancouver postcode V6C 3A6, then you have 2 choices, DSL or Cable. But when I entered my home post code (North York), the only choice is DSL. | |
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Oinktastic
join:2005-08-24
Scarborough
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·3 Web
| Re: Thanks It looks like they took down their site which used to show all of their services (www.get3web.com). At least I cannot access it right now. I guess this is part of the takeover by Cybersurf/CIA. They're putting everything under their own website - cia.com
3Web's phone number used to be 1-866-Get3web, but if that's no longer active, you should try 1-877-7-GET-CIA. They should be able to give you some answers and I THINK you would probably be dealing directly with CIA now since they're taking over. I'm not 100% on this one yet though, but that's what it looks like.
It's possible that they don't serve North York at this time. If that's the case, there are tons of great and inexpensive reseller DSL companies that you can try (if your phone lines are in good order). Wireless may be an option as well, depending on your latency needs.
I do not know of any other cable resellers in the GTA. If anyone does, let me know. If you'd like a list of ~30/month DSL providers, I know of quite a few and you can find them by searching dslreports.com or most are listed on canadianisp.ca. I find these smaller providers are often more client-friendly than the big guys in general. Unfortunately, they have to go through the big guys to get service to you. | |
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