| CIK Telecom? Reliable? I think this would be the right place to but it. Anyhow, I got done reading this thread: »Does anyone know about the company, CIK?
CIK Telecom is providing me 18Mbps dl speed and unlimited bandwidth for $39.99 as well as home phone services which seems like a steal. But its nearly too good to be true. So I did some researching and came to the above topic. When I was on the phone on them they said "No, we never have downtime and are always up" (paraphrasing of course).
So after I found out in the above topic that they are resellers using TekSavvys infrastructure etc. So I got some questions.
1) If they are using TekSavvy to provide me internet, they MUST have downtime right? If TekSavvy is having downtime [which it does] doesn't that mean CIK telecom will also have downtime?
2) The modems required are either a Motorola SB5101/5101N or a Thomson DCM425, DOCSIS 2.0. Are these even capable of handling 18Mbps?
3) What are some other peoples experience with them? Or what have you heard about them?
I would have gone with TekSavvy a long time ago but at the time users in the city of Brampton had a downtime of multiple weeks and going which scared me off. |
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 JCohenPremium
join:2010-10-19
Nepean, ON
kudos:3 | 1. Yes
2. Yes, Docsis 2 can do up to 38Mbps.
3. Don't know. |
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 Teddy Boomk kudos Received
join:2007-01-29
Toronto, ON
kudos:7 | reply to Mirin
Everybody has down time, saying no is just silly. If they are a Teksavvy wholesaler, the service level will be exactly the same as Teksavvy's.
I was asking about them just the other day in the Canadian Broadband forums:
»CIK Telecom advertising GTA cable service
Of course I'd forgotten what Rocky said in the thread you linked..
The real question is, why/how are they offering 50mbit/s cable? If Teksavvy wholesalers have it, why not Teksavvy core customers? CIK is not above misleading on the speeds they have available, as seen in this RFD thread:
»forums.redflagdeals.com/avoid-ci···-856942/ |
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Could a TSI representative chime in here about their 50Mbit package? They're either blatantly lying or TSI is able to offer higher tiers to resellers. |
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| reply to Mirin
I'd say according to this review you should stay far away.
»forums.redflagdeals.com/avoid-ci···-856942/ |
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