I’m moving into an apartment in Toronto, and I still need get get an ISP so I can connect to the interwebs. I’m leaning towards rogers… but they just seem too evil for me to associate myself with. The transfer limits they introduced (60 GB for the Express plan) are just way too stupid. Why do you need 7 Mbps if you can only transfer 60 GB per month? Dicks!
I heard about this other ISP Teksavvy. They rent their lines from Bell who, like Rogers, does traffic shaping. However, Teksavvy seems to be a decent company, and they support Net Neutrality — they were on Parliment Hill protesting… where was Rogers and Bell? Oh wait, I don’t think they support Net Neutrality, just show them the $$$ and they’re happy! Also, Rogers actually breaks into your browsing sessions and rewrite the pages you view to warn you about going above the transfer limit.
Out of principal I want to go with Teksavvy. But for some reason I’m still leaning towards Rogers. I think it’ll be easier to just go with Rogers, and I’m not really sure what to expect from Teksavvy. Am I stupid? :P
PS. There is a forum where users discuss different ISP, and there is a section for Teksavvy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I loath Rogers and Bell. Their policy is to screw over as many customers as possible. We should burn their buildings (without people in it).
July 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Go with Teksavvy or one of the other DSL providers. Sure downloads aren’t quite as fast but Bittorent works much better.