Sympatico outages ?

[Ilya Palagin]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

The most ugly thing about Rogers is a hidden bandwidth limit policy - 
they neither promise "unlimited bandwidth" nor announce limits. But when 
you exceed it, they ask you to "change your Internet usage pattern" 
within two days or suspend account for one week.

> 
> 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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