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Review by Madwand 
UPDATED: 185 days ago
member for 6.9 years, 1524 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Toronto,ON
 $17 per month (12 month contract)
 "Price & Extra bonuses - online PC - throttle workaround - anonomous surfing. Always expanding services!"
 "Bell gives substandard treatment if you have technical issues with your line (which is not Acanac's fault)"
 "You can't beat Acanac if you have good DSL connect speeds with another provider. As long as you understand DSL setup."
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I ordered the 1 year special at $228 upfront for a full 12 months. I gave Bell my 30 days notice and about two weeks before the end I ordered Acanac. I received my login details within 1 hour and was already using Acanac's service within a few minutes.
The first night was slightly choppy, but there were some small issues with heir Cogent lines. Everything was perfect come the morning. About two weeks later there were some Cogent issues again, but they only lasted for five minutes. It's now been almost two months and I'm a very happy Acanac customer. I just wish Bell did not reduce my line to the 5mbit service (which is what I am paying for).
With the Bell throttle, and the workaround I can easily get my P2P at 300-500K on a regular basis (assuming there are enough peers). I am extremely happy for this. Also, with an online PC I can use it without having work follow what I am doing. Also, I can block the DNS blocks from work by using the throttle workaround. i.e. using Facebook just fine.
Acanac has added new AGAS 7 & 8 and 9 and 10 will be online within the next month. The speed is 99% the same as with Bell.
I might in the future use MLPPP, but with the workaround I don't see the need. I would prefer a VPN or ipv6, but these will come out soon enough. I already know that Paul is working hard to keep his system up to date!
I really feel that I am a part of the Acanac team. I am excited for them with each new feature they introduce.
If you don't know anything about computers or DSL connections, I'd recommend that you stay with Bell though as you will probably have a lot of questions or potential issues that you might encounter, and a third party DSL provider may not be for you.
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