After seven months after moving into our ‘new’ condo and stealing internet from one of the unencrypted WLAN’s (plenty of encrypted ones too)… So after having used Bell Sympatico for almost 10 years, I decided to change ISP’s, I really don’t think 60GB of bandwidth a month is enough; and since Rogers is offering a similar 60GB/month with their high speed cable connection they were also out of the question… So I was on a hunt for a new ISP, and since I prefer DSL over cable, it narrowed my choices down, and in the end I chose to get High Speed DSL service from TekSavvy. At $30/month for a 5M/800k connection with 200GB/month, it’s a pretty good deal! I ran a few speed tests at speedtest.net and got a pretty consistent result…
As it can be seen in the above example, the download speed it actually faster than what I’m supposed to be getting, but the upload speed is only half what it’s supposed to be, but I really can’t complain cause it’s already pretty good… Although I’ve read some review of people complaining that after a few months the connection speed drops by half, I’m not too worried about that cause I live really close to a CO, in fact if I’m not mistaken, it’s literally across the street from me (there’s a Bell office there, I really doubt there isn’t a CO there!) In anycase, I’d say that TekSavvy is a pretty good ISP, I ordered the DSL connection on a Sunday night and they called me within 5 minutes of me finalizing my order to confirm my information and to answer the questions I had. If anyone’s interested in getting DSL from TekSavvy, please include me as your referral: dannrabbittang at teksavvy dot com.