Bell to Rogers Hi-Speed

[Nickelodeon]

I'm thinking about changing from Bell Sympatico to Rogers Hi-speed. I've got to believe that cable is just better and more stable than an old telephone line.

Anything I've got to watch out for? Can I keep my Sympatico address?

Thanks all.

 

[svajd]

I'm thinking about changing from Bell Sympatico to Rogers Hi-speed. I've got to believe that cable is just better and more stable than an old telephone line.

Anything I've got to watch out for? Can I keep my Sympatico address?

Thanks all.

One gotcha is that Bell requires notice of cancellation (I think it's something like 30 days). So cancel with Bell first, then wait the 30 days or whatever to sign up with Rogers. And make sure you send the modem back right away or they'll charge you for that, too.

 

[Gentle Ben]

as stated, you need to give Bell 30 days notice, send the modem back in the return kit they will send you. Wouldn't hurt to get an authorization number when you cancel, along with the clerks user ID.
No, you cannot keep the @ sympatico.ca email addy, unless you keep their service.

 

[The Bandit]

My brother switched from Bell to Rogers and he said the speed difference is like night and day.

 

[Nickelodeon]

as stated, you need to give Bell 30 days notice, send the modem back in the return kit they will send you. Wouldn't hurt to get an authorization number when you cancel, along with the clerks user ID.
No, you cannot keep the @ sympatico.ca email addy, unless you keep their service.

Thanks for the responses guys.

Re: the sympatico address, am I getting better service than those who sign up for gmail, etc? They're not tied into any agreements, but are they inferior quality, less storage space, less secure servers?

The @sympatico is the only email address I've ever had, and I would have to notify all of my contacts of any change. Does Rogers do the same thing? ie. if I get pissed with them, I lose my @rogers?

Does everyone else simply use gmail or yahoo mail so that they don't have to deal with these handcuffs if you want to change? What do you guys do?

As usual, the bastards make changing difficult.

 

[Tokyo Heights]

Red-Tape!

Thanks for the responses guys.

Re: the sympatico address, am I getting better service than those who sign up for gmail, etc? They're not tied into any agreements, but are they inferior quality, less storage space, less secure servers?

The @sympatico is the only email address I've ever had, and I would have to notify all of my contacts of any change. Does Rogers do the same thing? ie. if I get pissed with them, I lose my @rogers?

Does everyone else simply use gmail or yahoo mail so that they don't have to deal with these handcuffs if you want to change? What do you guys do?

As usual, the bastards make changing difficult.

These day's you will find lot of RED-TAPE going on at Rogers, Bell & even Telus, they are big time trouble makers for those who wants to have a change, they would put so many if's & but's that one cannot imagine, CRTC should form a complaint cell to look after such cases of harassement by server companies to their fed-up clients, to safe guard their intrest and peace of mind, these day's they act like vultures, & their client services are going down day by day.

 

[jwmorrice]

Thanks for the responses guys.

Re: the sympatico address, am I getting better service than those who sign up for gmail, etc? They're not tied into any agreements, but are they inferior quality, less storage space, less secure servers?

The @sympatico is the only email address I've ever had, and I would have to notify all of my contacts of any change. Does Rogers do the same thing? ie. if I get pissed with them, I lose my @rogers?

Does everyone else simply use gmail or yahoo mail so that they don't have to deal with these handcuffs if you want to change? What do you guys do?

As usual, the bastards make changing difficult.

Your problem is one reason I've never tied myself to much use of my provider's email service. It requires a sort of commitment that I'm allergic to. I've used gmail, hotmail, and yahoo and never had reason to complain or doubt the wisdom of doing so.

jwm

 

[WoodPeckr]

Your problem is one reason I've never tied myself to much use of my provider's email service. It requires a sort of commitment that I'm allergic to. I've used gmail, hotmail, and yahoo and never had reason to complain or doubt the wisdom of doing so.

jwm

Same here.
Have always done the same for the same reasons.

 

[svajd]

Re: the sympatico address, am I getting better service than those who sign up for gmail, etc? They're not tied into any agreements, but are they inferior quality, less storage space, less secure servers?

I'm not a big fan of Hotmail, but Yahoo and Gmail are both way better, IMO, than Sympatico. Yahoo gives you unlimited storage, but I like Gmail best because of the layout. When you send multiple emails back and forth with the same person, it shows as one thread, instead of a bunch of single emails clogging up your inbox. It makes it a lot easier to keep track of email conversations.

 

[Riley.Royal]

I'm thinking about changing from Bell Sympatico to Rogers Hi-speed. I've got to believe that cable is just better and more stable than an old telephone line.

Anything I've got to watch out for? Can I keep my Sympatico address?

Thanks all.

If you switch from Bell to Rogers you will lose your sympatico email your better off to use like gmail or ymail or some other free email service so no matter what ISP you have you always have.

I think from using both ISP services that bell and rogers high speed are matched.

 

[Cassini]

I'm not a big fan of Hotmail, but Yahoo and Gmail are both way better, IMO, than Sympatico.

Didn't Bell subcontract out its email services to MSN/Hotmail?

My old Bell account was one of the ones operating on the old grandfathered service. My neighbours simply received a Bell bundled hotmail acount.

 

[Don]

Bell seems to have better performance at a cheaper price. Why switch?

 

[Whosyodaddy]

As Monty said, cable can be much faster than an ASDL phone line... My experience with it ?? I'm on cable with Rogers.. At 3.30 P.M. , when every kid on the block is MSD'ing and downloading... It can be slower than Bell. The rest of the time, it screams along just fine.. With a wireless "N" router, my laptop exceeds 1 meg a second download speed if the site can spit it out that quick..

that being said.. Somewhere along the line, My " all you can eat " ultimate high speed turned into a 60 gig a month limit before encuring charges.. They warn you when you hit 45 gigs ( combination of downloaded and uploaded ),,, Maybe Rogers attempt to make you rent movies instead of downloading them... LOL..

You might want to try, before you switch, to see what your max download speed is. If a main site, like Windows update, shows that you are at a meg a second, but sites you usually use are slower, it may indicate that the "hold up" is with the internet itself, not your provider. If you can, try downloading from a particular site and note the speed, then ask a buddy who is on cable to do the same.. see if there is a difference..

I'm not that familiar with ASDL on bell, but on Rogers Cable, the speed is dependent on trhe package you buy.. Get light or ultra light and you won't get the same speed as the ultimate..

Hope that helped..

 

[Nickelodeon]

Thanks for all of the valuable feedback.

Bell sympatico seems to have an outage every month or two. Of course, when you're dependent on it, it seems to always go at a critical time.

Is cable more reliable than the old copper telephone line that ADSL is based upon?

 

[Goomer]

I don't have any issues with Bell DSL, although it is not as fast as cable. But I am in a building, so a shared cable pipe would not be a good thing in this environment.

Luckily, I am still grandfathered in on the original high speed "unlimited" plan. I download all of my TV content with torrents, so a monthly cap for me would be a bad thing! The phone guy tried to switch me to a faster speed "capped" account, and I told him that it was not worth it for me because of the monthly data cap. He assured me that the limit would be plenty high for me. He then went to check my account history, and quickly came back to tell me to stick to my grandfathered 5 meg plan.

The problem is that with faster speeds together with a monthly cap, it just means that you'll hit your cap even sooner! lol

If you do alot of downloading like I do, you might be better off to look into an independent DSL provider. Search the forums and you'll find some examples. They offer unlimited downloading with lower prices. I'll switch eventually, as I'm weaning my email off of sympatico to Gmail. I'll probably switch over in the next few months.

Cheers

Goomer

 

[dondada]

i prefer rogers to bell...i will try something different after this contract expires...but not bell..no repeat here ..cust serv mistakes are unbelievable...

never had a problem with rogers...just trying to cut down my costs...but eventually these companies try and succeed in screwing you with fees...for start up and cancellation...it really is a shame the crtc can allow such rampant contract "theft"

 

[hot_scorpio]

High speed

Guys,

If you have sympatico and are thinking of switching to another company...why not check out primus...I have primus for everything from phone line to internet...and I do find them fast and you can not beet there prices...

Check it out www.primus.ca

And there customer service is tops better then bell and rogers...

Think about it.

 

[Fred Zed]

Thanks for the responses guys.

Re: the sympatico address, am I getting better service than those who sign up for gmail, etc? They're not tied into any agreements, but are they inferior quality, less storage space, less secure servers?

The @sympatico is the only email address I've ever had, and I would have to notify all of my contacts of any change. Does Rogers do the same thing? ie. if I get pissed with them, I lose my @rogers?

Does everyone else simply use gmail or yahoo mail so that they don't have to deal with these handcuffs if you want to change? What do you guys do?

As usual, the bastards make changing difficult.

actually gmail is much superior to @rogers.com or @sympatico.
@rogers is really YahooMail.
GMail is very fast with lots of storage.
And you can buy a domain then link that to your gmail account for a small fee.

 

[Nickelodeon]

Guys,

If you have sympatico and are thinking of switching to another company...why not check out primus...I have primus for everything from phone line to internet...and I do find them fast and you can not beet there prices...

Check it out www.primus.ca

And there customer service is tops better then bell and rogers...

Think about it.

OK, another question. I went to the Primus website and they refer to their service as DSL based. I assume that this means they use the same phone line to my house that Bell uses.

So Primus has the a different server, but I assume it connects to the Bell office and then uses the Bell line to my house.

Therefore, it might be cheaper because of Primus packaging but same basic technology as Bell...no?

 

[Cassini]

Primus and TekSavvy use the same basic technology as Bell. However, Bell used to have sporadic problems with their email servers. Now I'm with TekSavvy, those problems have went away. TekSavvy is also recommended by many different people too.