Why Bell Sympatico Internet Sucks

Hey man! I’m at work right now – but I’m definitely going to try this at home and see if I get the same error, to my most recent knowledge, I’ve never seen that search engine!

On another note, I HAVE experienced the horrible Bell Sympatico help service, it’s almost non-existent! Another thing you should check out if you’re angry with your price, they’ve slowly increased modem rentals to $5+/month! I remember when the rental was free… Rogers doesn’t even charge.

I have recently made the switch to teksavvy (although not directly, I got this internet + VOIP package from CIK telecom) and am very very satisfied. It is a lot cheaper and I get unlimited bandwidth. YAY!

Seriously? You seriously tried calling Bell Tech support for this? XD

This is nothing to do with the subject 404 error. But I just figured out how Bell is trottling me. I did an IP lookup and found out my CO or ISP hub is in southern Mississauga. I live in Brampton, Brampton has two COs that I found. I rebooted my modem and cheecked again, this time it says I am in Oakville and then Milton. Go figure.
I have complained to Bell support when they had a support website, and they cept saying I was too far from the CO to get any more speed or bandwidth. I used to get 6mb download and they had me down to 2mb and recently I can’t get over 1mb no matter what time of the day it is.
If they got me wired to southern Mississauga, no wonder they say I am too far away from the CO.
So anybody complaining about Bells speed, this how they do it. They got you wired the longest route possible. you can post this or write me back, but as a custermer I don’t see how to fix this. Even changing ISP could get me the same results.

Hi Anton,

This message is in response to the article you wrote on May 17th regarding the World Financial Group Scam. For some reason your comment status is closed on that so I hope you don;t mind that I comment on this entry instead. Perhaps you can move it later.

I usually don’t make a big point in giving my personal opinion but there is a commenter “jpg” that I take serious offense to. I am also a business graduate from a top university in Canada and I am appalled by his comments on “don’t judge till you try it” etc. He claims he is a webmaster of sorts for “Fidelity” and then sites all sorts of “professional sounding” clients that he claims he works with – I don’t doubt his expertise on drag and drop web applications and simple web maintenance BUT get this, he doesn’t have a clue about finance and business practices. SO I think he should just shut his pie hole about all those things that He said or take them back. On the other hand, I understand that he was living in a prior underdeveloped country without assistance of any kind, and for those people I would equate them with people who do not have any credit, or bad credit here, and not able to get better rates elsewhere etc. but to go through with WFG and their half baked offerings. People can be pretty ignorant. He is clearly one of them. He states that WFG helped them with EVERYTHING, from opening accounts to simple things like getting a tax return. It sounds to me like he needs someone to change his diapers for him. (I can’t imagine his mother has any kind of complication in her financial assets or else she would know better then to have those under-qualified “associates” assist her.) For the record you may not even need to have graduated high school to be a part of WFG, and definitely not from a university. WFG is not illegal, but they do take advantage of people who don’t know any better. Jpg’s arrogant demeanour just blows by mind!

Referring to his replies “n00bs like you acting like they know everything but the truth is you are just a tiny worm scratching the surface of the real world. Think before you talk.” I think he should take his own advice on that one. He should really think before he uses harsh words like that and then saying that “you will never amount to anything”.

I take it your girlfriend, a fellow business grad, did not buy into this little ploy?

This 404 redirection irritates me too. The normal browser function is to leave the address bar AS YOU TYPED IT. Often, a 404 is a result of badly typed in web address. I can see the 404, then edit what I typed to what it should be. But with Bell’s redirection, what I typed is gone and replaced with a LONG URL. I must go in and delete a bunch of crap to get back to the original address I typed in.

So in their greed, under the guise of “helping” poor users find what they want, Bell is actually HINDERING.

(PS: Delete CK’s post. If it was that important to comment, you should have emailed!)