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http://www.ciktel.com/Main/Chn/Residential/Internet/index.asp<o></o>
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http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/registration/dsl/index.jsp<o></o>
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http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp<o></o>
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http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/internet/internetServices-Ontario.htm<o></o>
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http://www.distributel.ca/en-ON/residential/internet/high-speed<o></o>
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http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpInt_Access.page<o></o>
(ordered by price, Acanac is good at price and service, but only for the first year)
DSL Background
DSL service involves several layers of businesses, starting with Bell Nexxia, the company that owns and operates the copper wires to your house. Bell Nexxia's copper wires carry your voice and/or internet signals to your neighbourhood's local telephone office (that's all Bell Nexxia is allowed to do, by the CRTC). Next, companies interested in taking your voice and/or internet further make arrangements to connect local telephone offices into a network, so that the data can get between telephone offices. Finally there are companies that provide additional services such as help and internet services (eg., email). But no matter who you pay for DSL and service packages, underlying it all is the same copper wires carrying voice and/or internet signals, operated by Bell Nexxia at a price regulated by the CRTC.
So don't worry about from whom you get DSL -- it's all the same, at the line speed level. The only performance difference to think about is the quality of the network used by your provider to connect the neighbourhood telephone offices to the internet, which affects your response time and throughput -- these are monitored by network engineers.
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></o>(ordered by price, Acanac is good at price and service, but only for the first year)
DSL Background
DSL service involves several layers of businesses, starting with Bell Nexxia, the company that owns and operates the copper wires to your house. Bell Nexxia's copper wires carry your voice and/or internet signals to your neighbourhood's local telephone office (that's all Bell Nexxia is allowed to do, by the CRTC). Next, companies interested in taking your voice and/or internet further make arrangements to connect local telephone offices into a network, so that the data can get between telephone offices. Finally there are companies that provide additional services such as help and internet services (eg., email). But no matter who you pay for DSL and service packages, underlying it all is the same copper wires carrying voice and/or internet signals, operated by Bell Nexxia at a price regulated by the CRTC.
So don't worry about from whom you get DSL -- it's all the same, at the line speed level. The only performance difference to think about is the quality of the network used by your provider to connect the neighbourhood telephone offices to the internet, which affects your response time and throughput -- these are monitored by network engineers.
