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Moving to a new house and looking around at different options.

What's everyone using for providers? Is fiberOP worth it if I mainly just stream Netflix and do basic things? Trying to find something that balances price and performance.

I've been with Eastlink for 5+ years and only ran into one or two issues. Both times they had a tech out to my house within 24 hours. I work from home so I upgraded to the 80mbps service. I've got phone and cable through them as well, so there's no internet usage cap. No complaints at all.

jeffsmith wrote:I've got phone and cable through them as well, so there's no internet usage cap.

That's my one concern with eastlink - if you have any level higher than the basic one, you get a bandwidth cap (unless you have phone/cable). For me that means I wouldn't get anything other than entry level eastlink, or fibre op - and the speed of eastlink never bothers me.

That's if you're just an Internet customer. With a bundle you don't have a usage cap at higher speeds.

It seems crazy that the internet on it's own is fairly close to the price of a bundle (tv/internet/phone) ... at least for 3 months. I just want the internet. I have been with Eastlink in the past and have enjoyed their service.

I had so many problems with eastlink bandwidth and issues with their nodes. But that was a few years ago now, so I am assuming they have upgraded their infistructure a bit by now.

I have Bell Fiberop now and have never had a single problem at all. It has been rock solid in stability and always get at least 90% of advertised speeds when testing.

I think it all depends on your area and what the infrastructure is like. Both of my neighbours on either side of me have had nothing but problems with FibreOp.

jeffsmith wrote:That's if you're just an Internet customer. With a bundle you don't have a usage cap at higher speeds.

Exactly - I've always been an internet-only customer (since I started having my own, maybe 2007) and the bandwidth cap is a newish restriction. It bothers me

CorneliusAlphonse wrote:

jeffsmith wrote:That's if you're just an Internet customer. With a bundle you don't have a usage cap at higher speeds.

Exactly - I've always been an internet-only customer (since I started having my own, maybe 2007) and the bandwidth cap is a newish restriction. It bothers me

I don't like it either and made me hold off upgrading my speed (mostly for video chat reasons for work) for a long time until it was clear the cap wouldn't affect me. That said, now I feel I'm being held hostage a bit because I can't go to an Internet only account

For internet only Navnet Communications is the way to fly. They buy bulk from Weaklink and resell it, internet only. Same speed. No bundles. No caps. $42.70/month. Savings of ~ $360/yr from basic Weaklink internet.

NASH wrote:For internet only Navnet Communications is the way to fly. They buy bulk from Weaklink and resell it, internet only. Same speed. No bundles. No caps. $42.70/month. Savings of ~ $360/yr from basic Weaklink internet.

That's right. We've been thinking about making the switch because we can't get FibreOP out here. As you said, no caps, but I believe they only offer 20mbps - but that's a hell of a lot better than the 4mbps we are getting now.

Yup I was referring to Weaklink basic internet service - 20 mbps down, 2 mbps up. Same speed. No caps. Also, I see Weaklink has gone up again, basic interent is $74.95/mth so the yearly saving is more like $440. That's insane. That's right.

Yep. It's gone up $9 since I switched to internet only in 2013

NASH wrote:For internet only Navnet Communications is the way to fly. They buy bulk from Weaklink and resell it, internet only. Same speed. No bundles. No caps. $42.70/month. Savings of ~ $360/yr from basic Weaklink internet.

This is exactly the thing I was hoping to uncover! Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm all about the bottom line and that has my interest peaked. I assume if they buy bulk from eastlink they can service the same areas. Thanks again

Halifax_Jeff wrote:I assume if they buy bulk from eastlink they can service the same areas. Thanks again

Yes and no. I think they service HRM only. They're a small local company, I asked if I could go pick up the modem but they insisted on coming to my home to set it up aka "plug it in". Seemed odd but yeah...

Eastlink business Phone and Internet for $67 (I don't have a business but they didn't mind).

pvanberk wrote:Eastlink business Phone and Internet for $67 (I don't have a business but they didn't mind).

So you just asked for the business pricing?

Jimmy wrote:

NASH wrote:For internet only Navnet Communications is the way to fly. They buy bulk from Weaklink and resell it, internet only. Same speed. No bundles. No caps. $42.70/month. Savings of ~ $360/yr from basic Weaklink internet.

That's right. We've been thinking about making the switch because we can't get FibreOP out here. As you said, no caps, but I believe they only offer 20mbps - but that's a hell of a lot better than the 4mbps we are getting now.

Jimmy, PM me your address and I'll see what is available from WeekBell!!!

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Halifax_Jeff wrote:

pvanberk wrote:Eastlink business Phone and Internet for $67 (I don't have a business but they didn't mind).

So you just asked for the business pricing?

Just called the business number they did the switch. A few awkward pauses on the phone but the guy was happy to get a new account.

business internet only is $57/mth, it's decent but not as decent as $42.70/mth

It's odd actually, they always used to charge more to business. Glad to see it.

http://www.eastlink.ca/businessservices/internet.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'll be calling Navnet tomorrow to see if they can service my new place. I read one review on yellowpages http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Nova-Scot ... 39124.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; but if you're having good luck with it I think it's worth checking out.

Halifax_Jeff wrote:I'll be calling Navnet tomorrow to see if they can service my new place. I read one review on yellowpages http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Nova-Scot ... 39124.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; but if you're having good luck with it I think it's worth checking out.

Here's a thread with some decent information, it covers a couple of other options as well:

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/atlantic ... p-1505043/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Edit: just to be clear, citywide and navnet are not the same thing but both are discussed in the thread.

Jimmy wrote:

Halifax_Jeff wrote:I'll be calling Navnet tomorrow to see if they can service my new place. I read one review on yellowpages http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Nova-Scot ... 39124.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; but if you're having good luck with it I think it's worth checking out.

Here's a thread with some decent information, it covers a couple of other options as well:

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/atlantic ... p-1505043/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Edit: just to be clear, citywide and navnet are not the same thing but both are discussed in the thread.

Thanks Jimmy! That was super helpful.

Halifax_Jeff wrote:I'll be calling Navnet tomorrow to see if they can service my new place. I read one review on yellowpages http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Nova-Scot ... 39124.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; but if you're having good luck with it I think it's worth checking out.

That review is clearly from someone that leased a wifi router from them and doesn't know how to reboot it. Regardless, the tiny little company isn't going to have much in the way of after hr service, not that Weaklink does. Also, I don't believe that they'd ask you to call Eastlink if you had a problem

Got my internet hooked up today with Navnet. Thanks for the tip Nash! Works great and no complaints!