Toronto FreeNet massive trouble: where to go now?

[verbum-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org]

Due to massive ISP problems, I missed the recent TLUG listserv discussion of DSL
providers, and have 
had no luck finding an up-to-date listserv archive on the Web. Hence this posting! 

I got my ADSL modem working with Toronto FreeNet about 10 days ago, but have
had erratic service. The problem appears both when I connect my Debian GNU/Linux PC to the
modem
and when when I instead connect my Win98 SE laptop to the modem. 

The trouble varies from day to day or hour to hour, sometimes involving dropped packets, 
sometimes involving ping response times on the order of 3000 milliseconds, sometimes
involving a failure (as demonstrated by tcptraceroute) part of the way upstream, with
a Toronto router evidently failing to talk to a New York router. Many hours are
trouble-free, 
but just when i start feeling safe again, trouble returns.  

Toronto FreeNet is innocent of blame. The real culprit is WizNet, whose ADSL Toronto
FreeNet
is reselling to me. 

Can some kind soul recommend a good DSL ISP, preferably from personal experience? 
You could post to this listerv, OR e-mail me directly (verbum-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org). 

As I say, I'm sorry to be posting on a topic which was already discussed a little while
ago, while 
I was out ot listserv space with various heavy problems. 


Rapidly, 
very discouraged with WizNet,
and for different reasons discouraged also with my ppp-dialup provider ca.inter.net
(Interlog), 

Tom = Tom Karmo
416-971-6955
http://www.metascientia.com 
          				
          			


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