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A great option for students or anyone looking for an affordable internet plan with unlimited bandwidth, no contract is required and we've listed details about the plan below.
Fido Internet 75 - $32.50/month (regularly $65.00)
- Up to 75 Mbps download speed
- Up to 10 Mbps upload speed
- Unlimited usage
- Wi-Fi modem rental included
- Quick and easy DIY installation
This offer is available online or in Fido stores until August 31 for new or existing Fido customers. The discount will be reflected as a $32.50 credit for 12 months and pricing will revert to regular price after the 12-month promotional period. This deal is only available in regions eligible for Fido Internet service -- click here to see if your region qualifies.
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View allI signed up and got 95Mbps down, 10 up in the middle of the afternoon today. At 8:30PM (which should be the busiest), still getting consistent 95 Mbps down, but only about 5-6 up, strangely. So I'm quite happy so far, even though uploading speed went down 50%. Maybe I have a heavy torrent seeder in my neighbourhood?
Internet in our other place is 5mb up and 1 mb down so 75 and 10 is magic...... And it costs more than fido
Aren't we already at 1GBps+. Why is Fido still at 75Mbps?
Speeds of little over 100 and 12 down. Is not bad for the price.
Buh bye Virgin, see you again in a year? :P
I should mention I wasn't able to test via LAN to my laptop, as I don't have an outlet. I'm sitting next to my Fido modem and TP Link router.
Fido is Rogers Cable internet just sold under another brand. The only reason for a difference would be if the Fido internet connection was throttled or given a lower priority than Rogers internet connections.
I am sure they would get in a lot of trouble with the CRTC for throttling customers.
With Fido, I tried both on my Pixel 2XL and my laptop, I get 99down but 7.19 or 7.91 upload speed (rogers was around 10.66 or 9.99).
I bridged the modem and turned off the built in router function so I can use my tp link router.
Anyone here has similar upload speed with Fido?
Did a test via Xfinity speed test: http://speedtest.xfinity.com/results/JP93GZ24BWXSBMX
Edit: ok did another test on pixel and this time, upload is 11 Mbps ( seems to fluctuate).
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/4481884158
Re: The service getting better after Rogers' disconnection, that is strange but anything is possible. If anything I always had the opposite whenever I switched from Rogers to another provider. In the old(er) days they would come to physically disconnect the coax cable from the telecom box after cancelling. So even though they could see the bright red TPIA tag on my line (to indicate I'm getting coax services from a third party), they would disconnect it anyway. Then I'd have to wait for my provider to set up a tech visit via rogers (48 hrs), then wait for the actual appointment (2-3 days). It was so frustrating to wait all that time to watch the guy screw a coax cable in 5 seconds and leave after my modem immediately connects.
My router wouldn't connect at all. Called FIDO, they couldn't figure it out and said they will send out a technician.
I specifically asked them, if I still have my Rogers Internet active, is there a chance it is interfering. But they didn't say anything.
Anyway, on Sunday, once Rogers cancelled the services, FIDO started working fine. Getting close to 100Mbps.
Just for anyone who is having similar issues.
I Don't think it'll give me correct reading if I go through my home router and then into my laptop?
I never told them it was Fido (or a coax internet re-seller), who knows maybe they have access to the Fido database of customers (since they own the company?) and don't care because I'm still "under their hat" with Fido.
So if you truly leave, good on ya. We need more 5 year+ accounts to start leaving so they stop treating those accounts like garbage.
Btw everyone, today is the last day for promotion is what I'm told.
It used to be impossible (by design, years ago) maybe that person isn't up to date on how the network is set up now?
I was thinking along the same lines and read similar in the rogers thread too. We have a normal hd feed netflix and not the newer 4k tv's so I think it'd suffice But I must say I learned a lot about ping as I used to wonder about latency.
cheers
It's possible your ping could be bad/high (impossible to know without hooking up service and testing) which could effect things like online gaming (higher ping = more lag) and some other services. However if you have neighbors who have Rogers (or any coax-based internet via Teksavvy/Fido/etc.) and their service is good, yours should be the same unless you have some kind of wiring problem in your house (which is unlikely).