New at Rogers.

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:06:32AM -0400, Aaron Vegh wrote:
>
> > Rogers ain't perfect, but they're the best choice out there if you're
> looking for fast home interwebz.
> >
>
>  I wouldn't go that far.  Sure all ISPs suck and some just suck less than
>  others.  Let's not forget that with Rogers you can't have a static IP
>  address and some of your inbound ports are filtered (e.g. 25).

Well, it seems that if you're not going through Rogers, you're pretty
much certain to be getting filtered by Sympatico, since they're
operating all of the ADSL.

So there are only minor advantages to be had by picking a vendor;
they're all almost nearly equally bad in the important ways, and
differ only at the edges :-(.
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