Moving from Bell Fibe to TekSavvy fiber.
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@human3500 signal level: an invisible laser that will burn a hole in you.
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@human3500 @johnefrancis they are the phone companies, yes
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@dragonfrog @johnefrancis Videotron hasn't been evil in my experience. They actually are fantastic.
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@human3500 @dragonfrog I was with Videotron for a while, it was ok. I don't find the mobile companies as bad, more competitive market than fixed internet. Have also been with Bell, Rogers, Wind Mobile... every one except Telus
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@[email protected] been thinking about this too.
I felt dirty when I ditched Start for Bell, but the fiber trucks had done their job and the fiber wasn't dark anymore, so the thought of 1Gbps was compelling.
Now that TekSavvy can resell I'll likely switch, but Bell's promotional rate still beats TekSavvy's rate after their promo ends.
I'd pay a premium to use TSI, but not that big of one...
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@[email protected] For 1.5 Gbps, apples-to-apples
- Bell, $135 - $55 = $80 pre-tax
- TSI, $120 - $20 = $100 pre-tax
So purely out of principle I would pay $5-$10 more monthly for TekSavvy/Start, but a 25% jump... The Bell folks did their math on that one.
I don't actually know when the promo ends, though, I should check.
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@julian TS offers a static IP for $4. It's not normally available on a Bell residential service, was $36/month on a business service last I checked. No IPv6 on Bell residential.
As an existing Bell customer, I'd have to fight to get any promotional rates. Not worth it.
The principles matter to me.
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@[email protected] completely fair. It's obvious by what you said earlier that Bell has no intention of working to retain customers. Their focus is on poaching customers from resellers (aka me).
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@johnefrancis Can you do me a favour while you're still on Bell and try to go to TheGladstone.ca and see if you can get there? It's and a few other .ca sites don't work for me without a VPN.
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@johnefrancis @human3500 I got 1.5 for $55 a month from Bell and couldn't pass it up.
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@Nerdfest @johnefrancis Bell are too evil to use if there's a choice
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@human3500 @Nerdfest @johnefrancis so I can also sell this service... but the costing is outrageous for us to offer it broadly.
A sub-1.5Gbit line is $70/mo, and $80 for faster. Installation $250
But then the overhead on *one* of those lines is like $4500/mo. Plus all the datacentre, transit, colo, etc.
TSI is way bigger than @ServerNorth, that's why they can afford to do it.
Any wholesale ISP can do it, it's just after me, Storm, TSI, Execulink... there's not really many indies left.
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@Nerdfest works for me.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] working here as well.
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@human3500 @Nerdfest @johnefrancis Now if you're a business and paying for Fixed IP, I can definitely be competitive.
And I'm happy to sell the service to anyone, but you'd have to understand you'd be paying a _lot_ more for little more than my charming disposition. And catpix.
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@mWare @human3500 @Nerdfest I'm not needing a business SLA, so a commercial offering of $650/m won't work for me. If I had a bunch of employees or some managed services running in my basement....like 500 sq ft. of high density cat picture storage...then I'd give you a call...
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@mWare If I read this correctly, after removing all your marketing speak, you will offer me a symmetric 1.5 Gb/s Internet connection (no usage limit) at $54 a month with free installation. Do I have that right? If so, I am in! @Nerdfest @johnefrancis
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@johnefrancis @human3500 @Nerdfest I wasn't suggesting the Ethernet product
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@human3500 @Nerdfest @johnefrancis exactly! For the first month!
Second month we have to make some adjustments tho
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@mWare I am reconsidering. @Nerdfest @johnefrancis
