[Comp] Sympatico High Speed Dry Loop for 7mb/1mb, 60GB cap = 26.95, modem inc, NO CONTRACT

Nov. 12 UPDATE: I called in and threatened to cancel and they adjusted my invoices so that I was paying $26.95 + taxes (modem included).
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I called to cancel and was offered the following after I tried to pricematch with http://web.vdn.ca/maxnet-en/maxnet-high-speed

Sympatico High-Speed 7mb/1mb
Dry loop
60GB cap
No contract
$34.95

Considering that I was paying 27.95 to Sympatico for 5mb/1mb unlimited for the last 11 years, and that Bell suddenly raised the price of my unlimited plan last November to 52.95, its the next best thing.

I know about Acanac and Teksavvy and their unlimited plans, but I run an e-commerce business and only exceeded 60gb once in the last 3 years.

Has anyone negotiated a better deal for Sympatico High Speed (5mb or 7mb)? If so, how?

Buying anything from Bell helps to feed the beast.

Isn't there a Bell retention thread?

A little bird told me retention with bell tops out currently at $14.99 for three months then $19.99 for another three then $29.99 for the remainder of the year. You'd have to beat that for this to be a hot deal I should say.

My figures might be a dollar or two off

Best I could get out of them was $33.95 a month for 7Mb service. Long time customer, with home phone and ExpressVu also.

Originally Posted by deal_king

I know about Acanac and Teksavvy and their unlimited plans, but I run an e-commerce business and only exceeded 60gb once in the last 3 years.

Has anyone negotiated a better deal for Sympatico High Speed (5mb or 7mb)? If so, how?

My condolences. I wouldn't pay $34.95 to Bell for internet (directly) ever again. They had offered me MAX10 service with a contract (including a paltry 100GB cap) for $41.95 or the same deal you've mentioned. They wanted to give me the $34.95/60GB cap offer on a contract only at the time.

I've been with Teksavvy now since November with ZERO downtime. Likewise, I've got a friend who's been with them for over two years. My only disappointment was not moving sooner. For $29.95 a month you can have a 200GB cap.

Cheers.

That's nice but it's UP TO 7 mbps and 60 GB cap - that's just too small. Also you better hope you don't have a service outage due to the telephone wiring, you'll be spending hours on the phone trying to get the Indian rep to schedule a service call.

I use DSL 5Mbit no cap for $29/m..

But your deal isn't too bad for a dry loop (what everyone seem to forget here.. dry loop usually cost $10 alone)

60GB Cap? No Thanks.

I was on the old unlimited until June (since they started HS ~1999).
the best they offered me was ~$37/mo. on an annual contract limited but 7 mbs. I told them I was going to teksavvy, still didn't budge.

Moved to teksavvy in Dec.
Lots of dropped connections initially, which I attribute to bell screwing with TS.
great support at TS, so I am persevering - hope they get it sorted out so I don't have to go to Rogers.

At one time we had Bell home line, 2 bell cell phones, expressvu & sympatico.
Now we have only the home line (which we will dump next year for TS).
A truly screwed up company.

DO NOT GO WITH SYMPATICO, they will tell you is is 34.95 and billing errors will drive you crazy, one month they charge 49.95 and I call and they fix it and then the following month they tack in $5 charges...endless waste of time. Go with Techsavvy..

Originally Posted by tweetybird

DO NOT GO WITH SYMPATICO, they will tell you is is 34.95 and billing errors will drive you crazy, one month they charge 49.95 and I call and they fix it and then the following month they tack in $5 charges...endless waste of time. Go with Techsavvy..

+1 Same thing happened to me. Each month they overcharged me. I finally canceled and went to Acanac.

those of you on teksavvy, are you buying the modems from them or are you getting them elsewhere for cheap?

Originally Posted by deal_king

I called to cancel and was offered the following after I tried to pricematch with http://web.vdn.ca/maxnet-en/maxnet-high-speed

Sympatico High-Speed 7mb/1mb
Dry loop
60GB cap
No contract
$34.95

Considering that I was paying 27.95 to Sympatico for 5mb/1mb unlimited for the last 11 years, and that Bell suddenly raised the price of my unlimited plan last November to 52.95, its the next best thing.

I know about Acanac and Teksavvy and their unlimited plans, but I run an e-commerce business and only exceeded 60gb once in the last 3 years.

Has anyone negotiated a better deal for Sympatico High Speed (5mb or 7mb)? If so, how?

most likely ur gonna be calling in every month so they fix the bill for you, its a pain in the ass, spend a little extra and switch to any competitor. i was on a employee discount plan with them, and it took them almost a year before i didn't have to call in to get the price quoted

i'm still paying $67 for the max10 100G service.
it's hard for dryloop customer to convert to other company.

Does anyone know if Sympatico blocks ports?

In particular, has anyone used openVPN in Sympatico network? I couldn't get it to work in Rogers network, I suspect it's a ports issue.