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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org> on behalf of Charles McColm <charlesm@theworkingcentre.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 October 2018 09:24<br>
<b>To:</b> KWLUG discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kwlug-disc] DSL ISP in KW</font>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Easy payment online, cancel any time.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Very responsive via online methods (They’re pretty quick to respond on Twitter, pretty good via email)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The 25/10 plan Ron mentioned is okay speed for the price. Incidentally when I first bought this package it was more costly, the month after they reduced the
cost of the package.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">We’ve actually had 3 price drops (not increases) since we started with TS years ago. (Mind you we upgraded later, so I suppose this could be counted as an
increase)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Relatively stable. We have had some instances of DSL being out for a long period (3-4 days) due to Bell not being able to get someone out when we could be
there.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The advocacy Ron mentioned</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Possibility of getting your own static IP and running servers (we did for awhile)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Things that are less positive about TS:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Like most places with phone support, you could be waiting awhile.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Called support for a non-English speaking family on a DSL plan and the tech I got at that particular time was not very helpful. This may have been a one-time
instance, but when the DSL you just signed up for doesn’t work you’d think they’d be more accommodating.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Cheers,</span></p>
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