Toronto FreeNet massive trouble: where to go now?

Julian C. Dunn lists-JN5fZfbfKAtWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 25 06:04:30 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:37, verbum-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org wrote:

> 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.

I'm also a poor tfnet.ca user. Here I thought I was supporting a
community ISP and the next thing I know I'm being resold a crappy
Velocet DSL line. Someone mentioned that they are using iStop. I'm
intrigued by the promise of an SLA if one pays $10/month. Since I depend
on the uptime of this line for my business, it would make business sense
to pay for it. Is anyone else with iStop, are they a good ISP, and does
the SLA really live up to its promise?

- Julian

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