Saturday, June 30, 2018

Cheap internet in Ontario, Canada

So a few weeks ago I found a nice deal on a cable internet provider, and last week had it installed. I had been dissatisfied with my upload speeds on DSL, but really not all that interested in paying the premium of about $10/ month to switch from DSL25 to Cable75 at TekSavvy just to get off Bell's infrastructure and onto Rogers where I knew I could get at least the 4-5Mbit upstream I wanted reliably, so I had resigned to the idea that live streaming (broadcasting) video was just something I would not be doing at any decent quality any time soon.... then I saw they Carry Telecom deal on RedFlagDeals. Now I have Cable 75/10 for less than my TekSavy DSL 25/10 that wasn't getting 25/4 most of the time because of the old phone lines in this area. (yes, we had Bell techs out to troubleshoot, there was nothing they could do about it) Let me be clear, I LOVE Teksavvy and their support has always been outstanding for me, but money in my pocket is better than in theirs. $10 less per month for 3x the download speed and easily 2x the upload speed that I was actually getting is a big deal. and no download limit, not that I had ever gone over my Teksavvy 200GB limit (night time downloads are free at Teksavvy) To be totally honest, if I was a gamer I wouln't get Carry Tel cable. Carry Telecom's ping rates are double what Rogers has on the same infrastructure and that is almost double what Teksavvy has on DSL... I don't know what Bell DSL is like I haven't got one to test, but If you are a gamer you probably want DSL. Me, I just wanted more upload speed. Anyway, if you are looking at switching I'll drop 2 promo codes here. DSL promo: $10 off DSL modem purchase: MA44761 Cable promo: $10 one time discount: MA44762 (cabe modems, at least in Rogers territory are free rentals so no purchase) Check them out, see if they can save you some money too. https://www.carrytel.ca