********* BELL HIGH SPEEDS SUCKS BIG TIME**********
R G Crook
Aside from an initial card defect at the Guelph CO, I can rate my service an
" A " !
Help Desk rates an " A- "
Newsgroups rate an " A+ "
Multimedia downloads rate an " A "
Oh, well, all folks cannot be pleased all of the time !
.../RGCrook,CNA
10-4
"baby_J" <su...@trythis.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry I have been a subscriber for high speed for just over a year and
> compared to cable. it SUCKS!!!
>
> My house is literally one block away from one of the offices and
> apparently should be fast, BULLSHIT =)
>
> It's crap, it's almost like dial-up, downloads for newsgroups suck
> any multimedia downloads suck...sometimes i click on a link and i can
> read the the entire Britannia Encylopedia before i get anywhere with it.
>
> it's NOT worth the $40, I'm switching to cable and only wish i wasn't
> such a procrastinator because i would have done it sooner...
>
> the rogers cable commercials are so true.
> download rig-a-mortus for sure...
>
> for all those who have high speed, and want to defend it, i'll only
> laugh and think
> "your so stupid"...
>
> cable all the way.
> BELL sucks, plain & simple.
>
>
Andrew Petrie
station. Doesnt mean the line goes directly to it from your house. The
line could travel4 km's around other streets and neighborhoods before it
actually connects to a switching station.
Other possibilities for your bad luck:
- Incorrect setup (I hope you also installed those line filters on _every_
outlet in the home)
- Faulty network card (I dont use the one Bell provides, I use a higher end
3Com).
- Bad wiring in your home.
Have you even called up Tech support?
Being a networker myself, I know the theoretical specs of cable sound
amazing. But it can't deliver in a city or any other well-populated area.
But, if your line conditions are poor, cable's the only option.
I can understand your frustration, but just because DSL doesn't work for
you, doesn't warrant slamming the entire service or those who use it. sucks
to be you, so deal with it.
ap
I laugh at the Rogers salesmen you see in malls, obviously not networkers or
have a clue as to what they talk about. brainwashed into saying and
believing what they are told to say.
"baby_J" <su...@trythis.com> wrote in message
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> my beef is i live ONE block away from the bell tower...
> go figure.
>
> Ace McGee wrote:
>
> > If you think Cable is better, good luck. I just came from cable to Bell
HS
> > and it is way better then the cable in my area. My cable couldn't stay
up
> > for 5 min and the speeds where shit. I get double the speed with HS
then I
> > did with cable. I guess it is where you live.
> >
> > Ace
GF
Switched over to Bell HSE about 10 days ago. So far so good. They have
been excellent in every respect TOTALLY UNLIKE Roger's.
"R G Crook" <rcr...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Hey ! Different strokes for different folks !
> Aside from an initial card defect at the Guelph CO, I can rate my service
an
> " A " !
> Help Desk rates an " A- "
> Newsgroups rate an " A+ "
> Multimedia downloads rate an " A "
> Oh, well, all folks cannot be pleased all of the time !
> .../RGCrook,CNA
> 10-4
>
ryan b
manager, uninstall it completely, install winpoet (ask me if you need to
find it), and see the speed difference. then think - why does bell makes
it's users use a solution that is not the best on the market?
ah yes...and try emailing their support department.
oh...and install zonealarm and see how many scans you get from within the
sympatico network as compared to outside. then email them and await a
response....forever.
i've been with them 3.5 years. only leaving now that there is a marketplace
for DSL. and after i tell others about my SHITE experience...
regards,
ryan
r at sympatico.ca
"GF" <gre...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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GF
Let me know where I can find it.
I monitor my system well with software and hardware firewalls so I've locked
out all the crap.
Roger's did the same port scanning antics. Dicks!! Wouldn't own up either.
"ryan b" <ch...@bottom.of.message> wrote in message
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Walter Dnes
> it's not DSL the sucks; it's bell. case in point:
Let me contribute my horror story here. After getting my modem, I
went through a whole week of following "tech support" instructions for
installing+uninstalling+reinstalling+uninstalling+reinstalling...
umpteen zillion times.
I tried to impress on the tech support that I knew what I was doing.
I tried to connect 3 different machines (linux, Win95 off the Sympatico
CD, and Win98 SE using tappatch and the updated AM) separately to
Sympatico. I've ftp'd data between all 3 machines, so I know that each
network card works.
The 2nd or 3rd level of "tech support" finally admitted on a Tuesday
evening that it just possibly *MIGHT* be a problem at their end. At
8:57 AM the following morning (Wednesday), i.e. approx 12 hours later,
they left a message on my answering machine saying that they'd fixed it.
When I got home, I logged on with Windows, just once, to confirm it.
Then I moved the modem to it's permanent home and plugged it into my
linux machine. After all the horror stories I'd heard, it was
anti-climatic. It worked first time. Thank you Roaring Penguin.
I've done a couple of big downloads (Star Office Suite for Linux), at
well over 52,000 cps (approx 420,000 bits/sec). This is without any
tweaking of my settings. I think that the MTU and txqueuelen could
stand improvement. I used conservative timing with a wristwatch, i.e. I
timed from the second I pressed shift-click. Netscape starts
downloading into memory rather than waiting for you to select a
destination for the download, so you can get some pretty ridiculous
numbers if you shift-click and then fumble around trying to get to the
right directory to download to. The file can be 90% downloaded (into
memory or swapfile) before you click onto the OK button.
--
Walter Dnes
<walt...@waltdnes.org>