Eastlink vs Bell Aliant - who has the best bundle nowadays?
showrod...@gmail.com
This new Bell Aliant $95 deal is pretty nice, but I hear their
internet is not as fast?
Has anyone switched from Eastlink to Bell recently?
What is the good and bad on this?
I stand to save $40/month going over to Bell, but am worried that I
will have issues with it.
I could care less about digital cable, old fashioned cable works just
as well for me. I think Bell only has digital.
And the reason that I stand to save $40 is that I am can't get
Eastlink phone where I am, so I am forced to buy Eastlink surf and
watch, and then shell $38 for the Aliant phone. So, I am around $140
and get what Bell is offering for $95.
I would appreciate any opinions from those who have switched or are
thinking of it.
I am sure both Bell and Eastlink will tell me that they are faster and
better, so I want an independent opinion!
Thx
Steve
faster when its clear that eastlink has a much faster data transfer speed.
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"Donna Whitman" <NSBoo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:57:05 GMT, "Steve" <rapt...@accesswave.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>Not sure who's better service wise, but I can't see Bell saying they are
>>faster when its clear that eastlink has a much faster data transfer speed.
>
>
> when you ask them how they compare to Eastlink's Extreme 15, they say
> NO ONE is that fast. I have speed tests that say they do get that fast
> or very close to it.
>
> If I was only interested in what constitutes basic cable, I'd still
> stick with Eastlink even though Aliant's bundle may be somewhat
> cheaper. I just can't imagine dropping my speed that much to save a
> few dollars.
>
>a lot of the so called speed has to do with ones computer too ..........
i have aliant total package and my speeds are as fast as eastlink usuing
there speed test ...............
thparkth
> They DO say they're faster though as part of their sales pitch. Then
> when you ask them how they compare to Eastlink's Extreme 15, they say
> NO ONE is that fast. I have speed tests that say they do get that fast
> or very close to it.
In fact the majority of Eastlink Internet users get exactly the rated
speed of the connection (minus a few percent for packet overhead).
Whereas the majority of DSL customers (for any DSL ISP, anywhere on
the planet) get only a fraction of the rated speed. The reason is
simple - even a shoddily installed, age-degraded coax cable is a
pretty good, wideband, low-loss communications medium, whereas even a
perfectly installed, brand new copper telephone pair is pretty crap
for anything above a few Mbit/sec.
There are techniques which push the envelope on how much data you can
get over a copper pair, but the key thing to understand is that these
really are pushing the limits of what's possible. Some places (Korea
famously) offer gigabit-class service over DSL, but that requires high
population density and a DSLAM in every apartment block. Not happening
in Nova Scotia any time soon. Whereas even at 15 Mbit/sec, high speed
Internet is a tiny fraction of the available bandwidth of a coax
cable.
http://www.dslreports.com/archive/eastlink.ca
http://www.dslreports.com/archive/aliant.net
If you compare the results of the two ISPs on the dslreports site,
you'll see that Eastlink users are getting higher average speeds than
Aliant users. No surprise. In fact, if you look at the graphs, most
Eastlink users are getting results higher than 10MBit/sec, whereas no
Aliant user has got a result over 6.5 Mbit/sec.
(Remember Eastlink has customers on 10 and 15 Mbit/sec rated; Aliant
has customers on 1.5, 5 and 10 Mbit/sec rated. Remember also that
network issues between the ISP and the test servers can slow down
results, but not speed them up - so the most interesting results are
the highest ones. Very low results for either ISP should be
discounted.)
It's also worth noting that according to this page:
http://www.dslreports.com/archive
Eastlink is currently the number 4 fastest-rated ISP in North America,
compared to Aliant which is number 79.
In summary: Eastlink is faster. Their 15Mbit/sec is twice as fast as
Aliant 10Mbit/sec. Who needs maths? :)
Cheers,
Andrew
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> (Remember Eastlink has customers on 10 and 15 Mbit/sec rated;
Even better because Eastlink also offers a 5Mbit/sec service and one even
slower:
http://www.eastlink.ca/internet/highspeed/index.asp
http://www.eastlink.ca/internet/basic/index.asp
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