DSL.CA

[Paul King]

I agree that *tech support* for sympatico is almost nonexistent, but in my 
experience, the DSL connection works "out of the box." When I installed Debian, 
I even had the network up before I had an operating system installed.

Paul King

> 
> You guys are  way ahead of me. dsl.ca never even got my connection
> set up when I tried to become a customer this summer. Eventually my
> girl friend got impatient and switched us to Bell, which also doesn't have
> much support for linux, but at least they got our windows connection up
> right away.  A year ago dsl.ca was strongly recommended on this list, but
> that was before new management (wiznet) and everything I've heard since
> has been negative.  I plan to switch to istop.ca also (provided they don't
> change management too).
> 
> Alex
> 
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Peter wrote:
> 
> > I have exactly same opinion.
> >
> > For last two weeks ago, my connection kept dropping every 1-2 minutes. That
> > coinceded with Bell upgrading bandwith on residential lines. I had few
> > conversations with wiznet ppl, as well bell, to no avail. Well I sifted
> > through logs and discovered that all of the sudden they dropped out LQR for
> > link state detection, or OpenBSD implementation of ppp didn't work with their
> > new setup. I simply, disabled lqr in my ppp.conf and solved problem, for now,
> > at least.
> >
> > Peter
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