[Merged] New Teksavvy prices starting Feb 2nd 2012

[ronin1701]

Charged for both ways.

I suppose @soul_taker's idea to act angry and demand it be waived may be the only choice then. Of course, there's a less practical option too (in the fine print at the very bottom of their notice):

*Under applicable law, if you currently have a package that will be experiencing changes to pricing or other terms, and you do not agree to the revised pricing or other terms, your sole remedy is to cancel that service, without cost, penalty or termination indemnity, by sending us a notice to that effect no later than 30 days after the amendments come into force.

[comicbookguy]

Interesting. The email notice I received said something different.



I guess they must have caught the typo at some point.

It might also be because there is no "official" measure for Cable users anyway, except Quebec users. Their website only has tools for bandwidth usage of DSL and Quebec DSL.

[ronin1701]

It might also be because there is no "official" measure for Cable users anyway, except Quebec users. Their website only has tools for bandwidth usage of DSL and Quebec DSL.

Yeah, I noticed that. I recall asking them once if they had a bandwidth tracker, as I wanted to know how much I was actually using, and they said "... we do not have access to a bandwith tracker from Rogers yet."

When I asked them how they would know if I ever went over the 300GB cap, I never got a reply back

I wonder how far we can take that as license to blow through the 300GB?

They must have some (even if limited) capability to track bandwidth, if they can offer 300GB vs. Unlimited packages. Unless that's purely a marketing ploy?

[gnuman]

It's not only TekSavvy changing prices but all third party ISPs will be changing prices because of the latest ruling from Bell. So basically caps were somewhat thrown out the window but now they charge TSI differently depending on usage.

[rivet]

Oh, No, I was just about switching from Bell to Teksavvy, now they are increasing price too, adding the dry loop fee, I am almost run out of options for cheap internet with decent Caps.

[Dave98]

For anyone complaining about Teksavvys price increases, look at what Bell has just done to their packages

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/B...rs-Caps-117669

Maximum usage penalty increasing by $20 to $80

Fibe 10 cap - 75GB decreasing to 60GB
Fibe 12 cap - 50GB decreasing to 40GB
Fibe 16 cap - 75GB decreasing to 65GB
Fibe 25 cap - 125GB decreasing to 100GB

/edit - repost

but here it is outlined for everyone else to see

[BobSagget]

Do they charge for account-change fee for up-tiering? Would have thought they'd only do that for down-grades.

Yes if you want to go from say...6Mbit DSL to 12/16/25Mbit tier you have to pay a $99 "start-up" fee. Right now I am on 5Mbit with 300GB and price will be going up $3 and change. My new bill will be $49.82 per month (with my B Band dryloop) for a piddly little 6Mbit connection. How much can you get done between 2-8 AM on a 6mbit connection? 4-5 gigs? I figure I might as well just pay $12.43 more for the 16Mbit/300GB tier. Enjoy the faster speeds and configure my Usenet downloads to really take advantage of the 2-8 AM free time.

Going to suck but there's no way around eating the $99 fee. At least the TP-LINK 8816 should be good enough for the 16Mbit tier, so that's one less cost I have to pay on top of the rest.

[ronin1701]

Yes if you want to go from say...6Mbit DSL to 12/16/25Mbit tier you have to pay a $99 "start-up" fee. Right now I am on 5Mbit with 300GB and price will be going up $3 and change. My new bill will be $49.82 per month (with my B Band dryloop) for a piddly little 6Mbit connection. How much can you get done between 2-8 AM on a 6mbit connection? 4-5 gigs? I figure I might as well just pay $12.43 more for the 16Mbit/300GB tier. Enjoy the faster speeds and configure my Usenet downloads to really take advantage of the 2-8 AM free time.

Going to suck but there's no way around eating the $99 fee. At least the TP-LINK 8816 should be good enough for the 16Mbit tier, so that's one less cost I have to pay on top of the rest.

Aggh, that sucks.

I'm going to stop complaining about the $5 change fee for Cable users now ....

[zonetbh]

Ive always stuck with TS unlimited for peace of mind and to support them even though I generally only use about 150/month on average these days (I used to go over the 300 cap often, but for the past year or so that has changed for a variety of reasons)

With the added $7/month though I think ill drop to the 300

[mrcantrell]

Am I reading correctly that they are going to increase the cable "Express" from 10 to 12 Mbps (as well as the price of course)?

[ronin1701]

Am I reading correctly that they are going to increase the cable "Express" from 10 to 12 Mbps (as well as the price of course)?

If you look at the current cable offerings, they're already at 12Mbps. I think they've been there for several months now.

[comicbookguy]

Am I reading correctly that they are going to increase the cable "Express" from 10 to 12 Mbps (as well as the price of course)?

It's been at 12 for awhile now.

[hightech]

This is the problem of month-month services they have no contractual agreement to keep current pricings.

That may be your experience, but with Robbers, I was in a contract for 1 year and get 30% discount from the monthly price. The prices went up every year and in some cases 2x a year. All the contract did was make sure that I am held hostage and they can up the rates.

[mrcantrell]

If you look at the current cable offerings, they're already at 12Mbps. I think they've been there for several months now.

It's been at 12 for awhile now.

Aw. I haven't been getting 12, I'm closer to 11 which I've always been.

[Winkle]

That may be your experience, but with Robbers, I was in a contract for 1 year and get 30% discount from the monthly price. The prices went up every year and in some cases 2x a year. All the contract did was make sure that I am held hostage and they can up the rates.

Bingo. Roger's contract includes a fine-print clause that allows them to modify the terms of the agreement as long as they provide 30 days written notice.