Sympatico outages ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:21:11PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> I gave up on Sympatico, when I was trying to get a friend connected, and 
> she wanted Sympatico.  However, due to the frustation of getting through 
> to them, she went with Primus instead.  Then last year, a neighbour 
> signed on with Sympatico, but was never able to get connected.  I was 
> trying to get her going and just couldn't get it to work.  They even 
> sent another modem, which not only didn't work, but also killed the 
> phone line.  She also gave up on Sympatico and went with Rogers.  I was 
> then able to get her going in a few minutes.  Also, one of my co-workers 
> is on Sympatico.  He'd like to connect to his home computer from work, 
> but finds his IP is frequently changing.  But on Rogers, my dhcp address 
> is virtually static and I have a "static" host name that will always 
> work, even if the IP changes.

There are more choices than sympatico and rogers, and I certainly have
no intension of using either of those two.

Using rogers because sympatico is bad is just silly.  I think rogers is
terrible too.

I will be going with istop.com just as soon as I get the money together
to buy the modem and such.

Lennart Sorensen
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