istop.com

[Phillip Qin]

Hope your post won't cause another round of xDSL vs cable war.

I am not defending Sympatico, however Cable high speed bandwidth is (or used
to be) shared by you and your neighborhoods, xDSL is not. For example, my
Ultra ADSL is 3MB, I get 3MB download consistently, day and night. When I
was living in a rented townhouse in Scarborough, landlord's Roger high speed
is 3MB, in peak time (mostly evenings) I would only get couple of Ks; after
midnight, when everybody goes to bed, I would get hundreds Ks.

Anyway both Sympatico and Rogers sucks.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org] 
Sent: March 16, 2004 5:23 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: istop.com

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:00:39AM -0600, Jim W Lai wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> To 800kbps!  YIKES!  That definitely outpaces Rogers' residential
connection
> at 192kbps (in fact, afaik cablemodems max out at 768kbps anyway).  That's
> a HUGE change.

Rogers is 3 Mb down & 384Kb up.

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