I've got the Bell Fibe 25 service, which has been fantastic. You can get incremental total data upgrades at a reasonable rate, and they don't seem to be doing anything funny to bittorrent. But a week ago I started to get drops, on a weekend afternoon. At first I said, *&(^ Bell!, doing maintenance. Then it went away and was good again for a week. Then it happened on a weekday afternoon, and I know they would never do maintenance then. So I called them, with great cringing.
It wasn't bad! I got through all the "Are you a dummy?" questions quite quickly with good humour. The guy was not mindless. Then quickly to '2nd level support' which I love, but these guys are not 'people persons'. He quickly did a test and found the line had code violations, and immediately sent out a tech for the next morning. When I thought about it, the problems were happening on wet snow afternoons, so I was sure it was moisture.
All worked out, and they replaced the copper to fiber unit on the street box, which sometimes goes bad. Yeah!
Update: Ha ha! It's worse than ever! At least it is so bad, I'm sure they can find it this time.
Update2: The router fills with 'PADI' errors every 2 seconds. I've looked this up, and it's like a meteor hitting your house. People get everything replaced 3 times, and nothing works. Nobody has come back and said it was resolved. Blah!
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