Telus is making cold call to attract new customers. They have a promotion deal , 3 months free trail on internet service and TV. I always want to compare the download speed of DSL vs cable, so I figure that it is no harm to give it a try. The telephone guy came over to my place and hook up the wire, since I don’t have a phone line install. He then drop off a DSL modem and let me to setup it up myself. Somehow the line is not activated, no signal at all, obviously the internet won’t be working. I am too lazy to call Telus to setup my account, thus the modem is just sitting there. Today I receive a call from Telus, saying they have technical difficulty to hook up the TV in my apartment building. I have the option to just cancel the service order. That should me all the troubles on calling their customer service. Now I am still using my occasionally very slow cable modem, but I end up with an extra brand new DSL modem. I tried to sell the DSL modem on ebay, but turns out that it virtually worth not even a dime. The question is what should I do with the extra DSL modem?
What brand/model is the modem?
You know, they charge a few $$$ to rent DSL modem. I am sure you will find it useful if you use DSL in the future. Why not just keep it?
BTW, as for DSL speed. I am running TechSavvy here in Ottawa (over Bell system). I got around ~4 Mbit over claim 5Mbit service. The truth is these service is a “your mileage may various” case, depends on how far you are from the CO and other factors.
cheers,
Thanks for the advice. Keeping it is also an option.
4Mbit is very good speed. I got 1Mbit at most from my cable connection.