<p>He is now on DSL with Acanac, not cable, in north west Waterloo so those plan you see on the site is not what he currently has. </p>
<p>He also has VoIP with them too for $600 a year paid in advance. He has a streaming box (similar to what Roku et al). When the box is streaming a movie, VoIP suffers.</p>
<p>What he is planning to do is getting cable with Acanac for $750 a year upfront so VoIP.</p>
<p>He is not tech enough to investigate/know QoS and what not.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 2, 2013 7:13 PM, "unsolicited" <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Wow, quite the savings at Acanac, $264/yr, if you pay the $527.40 up front (instead of $791.40).<br>
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Looks like Acanac only has 2 plans, so he must be on the lower (or wouldn't have been able to tell you of his plans to up it) - would be interested in knowing if your friend is happier with the up'ed plan.<br>
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- do you have any sense from what he said to you that his difficulty is a bandwidth, not a QoS issue? e.g. Would his router or any switches be QoS aware?<br>
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Joe - looks like the kwlug-disc archive is at <a href="http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/pipermail/<u></u>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/</a> - perhaps useful to you. Strange - I thought I remembered it having a search ability. I don't see one now. Seems googled, though, search terms of "cable site:<a href="http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug.org/pipermail/<u></u>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a>" may prove fruitful to you.<br>
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On 13-12-02 12:00 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
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I did some research a month or so ago, since I want to stay with<br>
cable internet, but change Rogers. I deferred the decision until my<br>
Rogers contract is up and the cancellation penalty expires.<br>
<br>
The plan I interested in is: 3 mbps upload / 35 download<br>
<br>
Here is what I found:<br>
<br>
1. Start.ca, no contract <a href="http://start.ca/services/highspeed" target="_blank">http://start.ca/services/<u></u>highspeed</a> 35/3<br>
unlimited $59.95 no contract<br>
<br>
They offer an upload boast to 35/10 with unlimited for $69.95 if you<br>
want that. They also waive the $50 installation fee if you have<br>
active cable with Rogers now.<br>
<br>
2. Acanac <a href="http://acanac.ca/cable.html" target="_blank">http://acanac.ca/cable.html</a> 30 mbps downlaod $65.95 month<br>
to month, with discounts for longer term.<br>
<br>
A friend uses them and their service is generally good, but he<br>
experiences VoIP issues when streaming video to his TV, so plans to<br>
upgrade to a higher bandwidth plan (not sure which plan he has now,<br>
but he pays $600 upfront for a year). They bundle VoIP for free on<br>
some plans.<br>
<br>
3. Teksavvy <a href="http://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/cable" target="_blank">http://teksavvy.com/en/<u></u>residential/internet/cable</a> 35/3<br>
300GB $49.95 35/3 unlimited $79.95<br>
<br>
4. Distributel, no contract 35/3 mbps unlimited $59.95<br>
<br>
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Joe Wennechuk<br>
<<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com" target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com" target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@<u></u>hotmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
Does anyone have a cheap cable modem for sale? I would like to<br>
purchase cable internet and keep my costs down as much as possible. I<br>
was looking at Acanac. I know this discussion has already transpired,<br>
but who out there is using Cable for Internet, which provider? Are<br>
they good? How is the Price? any recommendations.<br>
<br>
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