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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hope your post won't cause another round of xDSL vs cable war.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am not defending Sympatico, however Cable high speed bandwidth is (or used to be) shared by you and your neighborhoods, xDSL is not. For example, my Ultra ADSL is 3MB, I get 3MB download consistently, day and night. When I was living in a rented townhouse in Scarborough, landlord's Roger high speed is 3MB, in peak time (mostly evenings) I would only get couple of Ks; after midnight, when everybody goes to bed, I would get hundreds Ks.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Anyway both Sympatico and Rogers sucks.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: James Knott [<A HREF="mailto:james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org">mailto:james.knott@rogers.com</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: March 16, 2004 5:23 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: istop.com</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Taavi Burns wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:00:39AM -0600, Jim W Lai wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>Bell's raised the basic level of ADSL from 1.5Mbps to 3.0Mbps to compete</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>with Rogers cable here. The next tier of service is a mere 4.0Mbps.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>I'm with a smaller reseller of ADSL, and my service got bumped up without</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>any change in hardware (Alcatel here) or billing price. Upstream speed got</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>boosted to 800kbps as well.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To 800kbps! YIKES! That definitely outpaces Rogers' residential connection</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> at 192kbps (in fact, afaik cablemodems max out at 768kbps anyway). That's</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> a HUGE change.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Rogers is 3 Mb down & 384Kb up.</FONT>
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