Rogers high-speed internet

[John Macdonald]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:25:46PM -0500, Charles philip Chan wrote:
> > Sympatico is not too bad if you can support yourself. Although the speed
> > is slower than cable, but the speed is constant since I don't have to
> > share my connection with the whole neighbourhood.
> 
> But you do have to share the ISP and the rest of the internet with them.
> Big freaking deal.  That claim is one of the lamest marketing scams the
> DSL people have come up with.  DSL is very nice, and has the advantage
> of not having to deal with rogers, but the sharing with your neighbours
> thing is just a load of crap.  Some cable areas may be badly designed
> and have too many users on one segment (cogeco seems to love doing
> this), but from what I have seen rogers does a decent job keeping the
> number reasonable (I have no problem getting 700KB/s transfers
> regularly).

More a case of outliving its best-before date - the original
cable service in most areas was widely reported to nosedive down
to dial-up speed in the early evening.  As the cable companies
put better equipment into the local neighbourhoods so that there
were fewer people sharing the local connection, that became less
of an issue.  The memory takes a lot longer to go away.

> > Which is of no use since their TOS forbids servers, IIRC.
> 
> All the larger generic consumer oriented ones have that.  I don't
> consider having ssh access to my PC to make it a server.  A web server
> or mail server would be another issue.

That's the killer for me.  I want to run my own mail server
to support my own domain; having a web server is something I
haven't done but if I did it would not be to broadcast info to
the world, but to allow me remote access to things on the local
system (which I currently do through ssh), so an ISP-provided
web site is of no value.  The mail "server" is only handling
my family's email, nothing commercial, so I view terms that
forbid it as carelessly attempting to solve a problem that is
not relevant in my case with an overbroad policy.

I switched from Sympatico for my DSL service when Sympatico
started blocking incoming SMTP.  And since Sympatico lied and
told me that they had not made such a change when I first
asked, and only admitted it after I'd spent a lot of time
trying to find some other cause for the problem, I'm not
planning to return.  (Their arrangements with MS have just
cemented that feeling.)

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