Hi All ,

I have read a few post and i just want to put in my 2 cents. I will try to explain ,dont mind the spelling im french .

1st Aliant have more than one pakage and they have 2 system billing and support. If you were previosly with Aliant high speed and you upgrated with ultra then somethimmes what hapens is that the sales dep adds Ultra to your account and then submit a ticket to support to up your bandwitdh. somethimes that ticket gets lost its just a mater of calling them and explaning.

Now other issues i red whas that Aliant dosent have enough bandwitdh and tries to rip off ppl . Well that is funny because Aliant"bell" have the fastest network in nort america why do you guys think that all the call centers are in new brunswick?.

Now second to that is the conextion type offerd by Aliant is DSL PPPOE witch is a dedicated conection to the CO "central; office" It is imposible that the network drops speed at peek times I have had high speed since its been avalable and have ultra way before all your guys and my bandwitdh have alwaise been between 10 % of fluxctuation .

What hapens in a pppoe conection is the furtur you are away from the co the packlets tend to drop . Its like having a 300 ft power cord to a skill saw. Now that being sad means that in order to be eligable for ultra you nead to be close to the co "withing 2k". That is why its not everyone that have high speed that can get ultra. basecly ultra speeds should be anywere from 3mb to 5.5m now alsow remember that 1m is not equal to 100kb/s but more around 144kb/s

Now see this is were Cable comes in play they advertise a 5 mb conextion and they can bush that speed farther than ppoe but the problem is that cable is all on a shared network and if a lot of users are using the bandwitdh then its gets realy slow . I guest it depends what you want do you want a dedicated conextion that will garantie constant speed without being harased by your isp for downloading to much or would you rather pay for cable at 5 mb shared and as soon that you start to use it quite a bit then they harase you for bandwitdh consomption .

Well for me the choice is clear Aliant it is and as far as the upload goes its is caped at about 40-60 kb/s because other wise pepole would have their own home servers wich meen hosting sites from their home and nohone wants that because it would kill the server market.