Need an ISP in TO

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:54:59AM -0400, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
> I'm in Montreal and part of the MLUG. A big chunk of us, all use ISPs
> with very open service agreements. For about $40/month we get static
> IPs. Straight connections to/from the net with no filtering, no limits,
> can keep whatever servers we want at home and so on.

Well with istop we get up to 3Mbit (not sure I have ever gotten that
close to that speed) for $30/month, if you buy your own modem, and a
static ip is $4/month or $50 on time.  Transfer limit of 25G down and
unlimited up, although if you kill your pppoe session after 2am and
before 10am, the download in that time range doesn't count.  Many people
are getting frustrated with the outages that they have had every few
months that sometimes last hours, sometimes a day or two.

I do know a few people using a provider in Montreal, even though they
live here in Toronto.  At least one of them basically manage to get a
custom service agreement with the provider about what they could and
could not do with the connection and what transfer limits (if any) there
were.  I don't know what the excact details of his agreement is, but it
sounded like a good reason for staying with the provider even when
moving.

> This is what I was looking for in TO and thought TLUG would be a good
> place to find it. :-)

Some of us here are currently looking for something like that too.
There used to be a couple of ISPs like that, then some got bought and
went downhill, and others have started having some problems with
reliability (and disagreements with their upstreams in some cases).

How hard could it be to find an ISP that does DSL in toronto, with a
reasonable (or preferably no) transfer limit, static ip, reliable
service, and preferably a price of $50/month or less (anything less than
rogers charges is reasonable to me.)

Lennart Sorensen
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