Moving from Bell Fibe to TekSavvy fiber.
On hold as Bell tries to cook up some retention deal.
But it's too late. I've already ordered TS.
If Bell wanted to retain me, they should've applied their best price pro-actively, instead of gradually cancelling all my promotional rates.
TS also offers a static IPv4 for $4/m and also provides IPv6 service, which probably makes the static IPv4 unnecessary.
huh, after being on hold for 10m, I was surprised they didn't bother to make a retention attempt. Maybe that's gone out of style.
Other than the complex cancellation of promotions that caused the price to climb way above going market rates, the Bell Fibe internet service was great. I don't think it was ever down. Even after the derecho wiped out Barrhaven's power for 2 weeks.
TV: was OK. The box/app was pretty flaky.
Home Phone: never used. Thrown in for free...
@johnefrancis We can get TekSavvy fibre now? How much?
@human3500 eh, starts under $100 for 1.5gbps unlimited, although it rises after a while. It's not a great amount cheaper than Bell, depending on your lifecycle of promo rates. $4 for a static IP though, that's a great deal.
@johnefrancis @human3500 I got 1.5 for $55 a month from Bell and couldn't pass it up. :(
@Nerdfest @johnefrancis Bell are too evil to use if there's a choice
@Nerdfest I am coming back in here to point out that the most probably reason that you could get that good deal from Bell was because they had to open up their fibre network to resellers. Bell is offering you that killer deal to drive companies like TekSavvy out of business. Once they have killed them off, you should expect your price to skyrocket. This is why everyone should not use bell even if the deal is crazy good. If they didn't offer this deal before they were made to compete, the deal exists because they were forced to compete. @johnefrancis
@human3500 @Nerdfest @johnefrancis so I can also sell this service... but the costing is outrageous for us to offer it broadly.
A sub-1.5Gbit line is $70/mo, and $80 for faster. Installation $250
But then the overhead on *one* of those lines is like $4500/mo. Plus all the datacentre, transit, colo, etc.
TSI is way bigger than @ServerNorth, that's why they can afford to do it.
Any wholesale ISP can do it, it's just after me, Storm, TSI, Execulink... there's not really many indies left.
@human3500 @Nerdfest @johnefrancis Now if you're a business and paying for Fixed IP, I can definitely be competitive.
And I'm happy to sell the service to anyone, but you'd have to understand you'd be paying a _lot_ more for little more than my charming disposition. And catpix.
@mWare @human3500 @Nerdfest I'm not needing a business SLA, so a commercial offering of $650/m won't work for me. If I had a bunch of employees or some managed services running in my basement....like 500 sq ft. of high density cat picture storage...then I'd give you a call...
@johnefrancis @human3500 @Nerdfest I wasn't suggesting the Ethernet product :P
@mWare If I read this correctly, after removing all your marketing speak, you will offer me a symmetric 1.5 Gb/s Internet connection (no usage limit) at $54 a month with free installation. Do I have that right? If so, I am in! @Nerdfest @johnefrancis
@human3500 @Nerdfest @johnefrancis exactly! For the first month!
Second month we have to make some adjustments tho ;)
@mWare I am reconsidering. @Nerdfest @johnefrancis
@human3500 @mWare @Nerdfest @johnefrancis Well, as much as I don't like to mix the streams, we are his customer. He's given us very reliable good service for years. I love the fact he doesn't filter port 25 although many providers do.
@Dianora maybe @mWare is just too lazy to filter port 25. Er, I mean laid back. @Nerdfest @johnefrancis
@human3500 @Dianora @Nerdfest @johnefrancis I'd have to check if it's still going, but at various time we filter Postgres, MySQL, and SNMP & NTP ports. Latter due to UDP DDoS, and the former because you just shouldn't be.
Blocking 25 outbound makes more sense than blocking 25 inbound, but I'm aware of at least 4-5 customers running MXes on our access network. Could be more.
Need rDNS set? Set up the forward record and let me know!
@mWare @Dianora @Nerdfest @johnefrancis That's censorship! Where are my first amendment rights?
@human3500 @Dianora @Nerdfest @johnefrancis Naw, it's nanny-state who is tired of dealing with everyone's unpatched, unsecured BS ;)