istop.com -> [OT] Sympatico ADSL

[Phillip Qin]

I haven't seen any speed boost. I am on Ultra Highspeed with simpatico. The
upgrade is planned for early spring 2004.

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From: talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org [mailto:talexb at tabsoft.on.ca] 
Sent: March 16, 2004 10:13 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: istop.com

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Jim W Lai wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Marc Lijour wrote:
> > I have been away for quite some time when I realize that istop.com
offers a
> > 3MB connection for ~30$ !
>
> Bell's raised the basic level of ADSL from 1.5Mbps to 3.0Mbps to compete
> with Rogers cable here.  The next tier of service is a mere 4.0Mbps.
> I'm with a smaller reseller of ADSL, and my service got bumped up without
> any change in hardware (Alcatel here) or billing price.  Upstream speed
got
> boosted to 800kbps as well.

I've been hearing about this for a little while, but I'm on Sympatico in
Toronto and haven't seen the increase in speed. I uploaded about 37M last
night and it took about 42 minutes -- that still works out to about 15Kbps
upstream.

Downstream speed is nice, but an increase in upstream speed would be huge
for me.

Does anyone know if they're doing C.O. by C.O., or if it's city-wide?

Alex


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