Sympatico slow

Jeremy Baker jab-76OBl6+JcyzDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 20 01:12:41 UTC 2004


I don't get nearly the speed I used to on most sites.  I actually was getting 
close to calling about it, (thinking that my line had gone bad) but then 
found that I still got 300K/s at a few sites.  Its somewhat irritating, but 
then the good tech support and ability to run servers keeps me around.

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 19:12, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On Monday 18 October 2004 23:03, John McGregor wrote:
> > Sympatico's service was actually O.k. for quite a while, but since their
> > link up with Microsoft service has been atrocious. I too will be
> > switching to Istop in the very near future.
>
> Hmmm, last night on Sympatico (my mothers computer):
>
>   Fetched 6600kB in 21s (301kB/s)
>
> Same time, my computer (istop):
>
>   Fetched 6600kB in 57s (114kB/s)
>
> When 3MB service first came available I was getting more than 300KB/sec.  I
> asked on TLUG a bit over a month ago whether others were seeing the
> slowdown and was told by Ralph (Istop owner) that the slowdown was due to
> the hordes going back to school.  Now I am not so sure ...
>
> I'm very happy with istop, decent performance, good price and not anal
> about a person running servers.  If raw speed is a concern then perhaps
> istop isn't the answer ... are other istop customers still seeing this
> slowdown?

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