Another way to go in Canada, is:
1) Cancel your existing residential Cable TV or Satellite TV service.
1) Order a basic Business Cable Internet service to your home under a business name. This will be much faster than residential cable internet service (both on the upstream & downstream) at a marginally higher cost per month - say $65 monthly. When the cable installer shows up, let them know that you will be getting tv services via satellite - **and more than likely** the cable installer will leave off the filter which blocks the incoming cable TV signal.
2) Then subscribe to a low-cost VOIP provider that will allow you to transfer your old Bell landline # over to them for say $19.95 per month (say Vonage or Talkbroadband). Immediately cancel that old Bell landline.
*There is an article comparing Canadian VoIP provider packages located at:
http://www.canadianisp.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboar d.cgi?act=ST&f=22&t=1796
3)Now you have a faster High Speed Internet connection with better customer service (since it's business), a phone line with your old number, and Cable TV with 70 odd channels all for about $85 monthly.
**The trick is in getting them to leave off the line filter for cable tv. As far as I know though, the installer will want to leave off the filter by default - since this oftens interferes with you getting the strongest possible signal strength for Cable Internet.
For Canada Broadband checkout:
http://www.broadbandmarket.ca
It's a 'submit one form get multiple competing quotes' type of site.
or
http://www.canadianisp.com
It's an ISP locator site for Canada, with comparison functions.
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I gotta learn how to post links, sorry, that article comparing Canadian VOIP providers and packages is located again at:
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http://www.canadianisp.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboa
Another way to go in Canada, is: 1) Cancel your existing residential Cable TV or Satellite TV service. 1) Order a basic Business Cable Internet service to your home under a business name. This will be much faster than residential cable internet service (both on the upstream & downstream) at a marginally higher cost per month - say $65 monthly. When the cable installer shows up, let them know that you will be getting tv services via satellite - **and more than likely** the cable installer will leave off the filter which blocks the incoming cable TV signal. 2) Then subscribe to a low-cost VOIP provider that will allow you to transfer your old Bell landline # over to them for say $19.95 per month (say Vonage or Talkbroadband). Immediately cancel that old Bell landline. *There is an article comparing Canadian VoIP provider packages located at: http://www.canadianisp.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboar d.cgi?act=ST&f=22&t=1796
3)Now you have a faster High Speed Internet connection with better customer service (since it's business), a phone line with your old number, and Cable TV with 70 odd channels all for about $85 monthly.
**The trick is in getting them to leave off the line filter for cable tv. As far as I know though, the installer will want to leave off the filter by default - since this oftens interferes with you getting the strongest possible signal strength for Cable Internet.
For Canada Broadband checkout: http://www.broadbandmarket.ca It's a 'submit one form get multiple competing quotes' type of site. or http://www.canadianisp.com It's an ISP locator site for Canada, with comparison functions.