Would switching from CarryTel to Fido/Rogers help with slowdowns during day?

dieselboy27 wrote: ↑ I just switched from Carrytel 300/20 connection to Fido 150/15.

It has solved all of my issues. Previously I was getting constant buffering when was watching IPTV, and twitch was unusable. I found that each day after about 6PM things went to shit.

Now that I'm on Fido, I haven't experienced those issues. I hate having to go back to a Rogers company, but I found carrytel unusable for me. I had to leave in order to have functioning internet.

TorontoTrashPanda wrote: ↑ Hi, currently I'm a customer with CarryTel on their 75d/10u plan. It's generally not bad but sometimes during the day, the slowdown is horrible and it becomes difficult to surf the internet or make Teams calls.

Would switching to Fido/Rogers help with this (with a higher speed plan) or would they face the same issue due to how cable internet works in general?

Thanks.

TeateaM wrote: ↑
There is no Carrytel 300/20, so clearly you are just trolling.

dieselboy27 wrote: ↑ I just switched from Carrytel 300/20 connection to Fido 150/15.

It has solved all of my issues. Previously I was getting constant buffering when was watching IPTV, and twitch was unusable. I found that each day after about 6PM things went to shit.

Now that I'm on Fido, I haven't experienced those issues. I hate having to go back to a Rogers company, but I found carrytel unusable for me. I had to leave in order to have functioning internet.

sandini_power wrote: ↑ Do you know when they will give you the refund for the prorated services? I still haven't got mine yet..

dieselboy27 wrote: ↑ I’m not certain. The carrytel refund was posted to the site quickly but nothing yet from cannet.

sandini_power wrote: ↑ yea i see the minus amount on carrytel billing page but have yet to receive the refund back to my card

dieselboy27 wrote: ↑ The carrytel account said it would be posted by Dec. 28

tebore wrote: ↑ I switched and it helped. At least until Rogers added more fiber and upgraded the node in my area to fully "fix" things

When you have this problem it usually means the node in your area is overloaded, Only Rogers can truly fix it by getting more Fiber to the area.

Rogers and Fido have higher traffic priority than to 3rd party. So it'll help but it won't be a huge difference, but it might be enough to at least keep your VoIP and virtual meetings stable,

TorontoTrashPanda wrote: ↑ That was my concern - that this is a node infra issue rather than provider issue.

@IndyBeak has it been proven that CarryTel throttles?

IndyBeak wrote: ↑ I believe there was a long thread here on RFD where many people confirmed brutal throttling at peak hours. I never had Carrytel, but I had CanNet for a few months and that was just as bad.

tebore wrote: ↑ CIK and Cannet throttle.
Don't confuse them with Carrytel.

I'm not a fan of carrytel anymore but I'm not going to spread misinformation about them.

Carrytel's DSL service seems to have less issues than their Cable side. Which is where the big promos are. Rogers is contributing to overselling on their networks.

tebore wrote: ↑ Cogent, the partner that Carrytel buys their bandwidth from has been know to do traffic shaping and is unfriendly to P2P and IPTV traffic. This maybe where the issues are coming from. It's been hard to say where the issue is. Carrytel vehemently denies any throttling and traffic shaping. But they have also done throttling for fair use in their early days.