DSL providers in Toronto

[John Macdonald]

When Sympatico quietly began to prohibit incoming
SMTP to their customers last June (so quiet that
they didn't tell their tech support people at first,
so I spent an extra week trying to find a problem at
my end after being assured that they had definitely
not changed their blocking policies), I switched
to eol.ca.

The service from eol.ca seems fine.  It is costing
me $37 (and change) per month, it would be $5 (+ tax)
higher if I got a fixed IP address.

This is 1.5 Mbit service (3 Mbit service would
cost twice as much for the dynamic IP plus the
same $5 extra for fixed IP).

You can use your own ADSL modem. or they sell or
rent them.  There is no cap.  You can run services.
If you need any sort of service, they do not insist
that you run an MS product to even start talking
to them.  You do get an email address (which they
use by default for billing and service announcements,
but I presume that can be changed).

I've found that the DSL connection has been dropping
4-8 times per month.  About half of the time, the
modem just picks up the connection again (I notice
that it happened when the IP address has changed,
so there are probably additional times when it
drops and reconnects but is reassigned the same
IP address).  The other half of the time, the DSL
modem (an OvisLink, which I bought from them) hangs
and I have to power cycle it to get it to reconnect.
Choosing your own DSL modem, you'll probably do better
than that.

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:27:48PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So now that I am getting pretty fed up using 56k dialup for the last few
> weeks, I think I need to consider DSL (No I am not talking to Rogers).
> 
> What I would like:
> *ADSL 1 to 3Mbit
> *I can buy whatever ADSL modem I want
> *I can run services if I want to
> *Static IP
> *Reasonable transfer limits per month (although none is of course always
>  nice).
> 
> Would be nice but really not needed:
> *Choice of what static IP resolves to
> 
> What I don't need:
> *Tech support to tell me how to configure programs I already know better
>  anyhow.
> *Email (I have plenty already).
> *Web space (I have that too).
> *Unreliable service
> 
> If that's possible for under $50 per month, that would be nice.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Any horror stories?
> 
> Toronto freenet looks promising, but someone said they just resell some
> not so great service.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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