Sympatico getting real slow?-- Is it mostly the email send/receive that is slow???

[Teddy Mills]

 Is it mostly the email send/receive  that is slow???




Mike Kirk wrote:

>>I've been putting off ditching Sympatico, but I'm curious, are other
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>Sympatico
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>>subscribers noticing a severe slowdown/timeouts recently?
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>>I don't relish having to change all my e-mail subscriptions, but I'm
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>thinkin'
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>>it's time to call Ralph.
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>I'm at Yonge + Eglinton and my connections have been consistently fast. I
>watch things pretty closely with MRTG and IOG, so if I got any kind of
>severe drop (i.e. 5 KB/s as one poster suggested) I'd notice.
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>I switched to Sympatico about a year ago now. At the time I had been a cable
>customer for years (first in London, then Yonge + Finch, then Yonge +
>Eglinton) and although cable was OK, DSL at the time offered higher upload
>speeds... so I switched. I've been happy with Sympatico, other than for
>awhile when I switched to Ultra and the connection would reset (and thus my
>IP as well) up to a dozen times a day. Dropping back to 3000/800 solved the
>problem (an honestly the extra 1000 download wasn't worth it).
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>Anyways that's my little story... :)
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>   Mike
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