Teksavvy ISP

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:39:28PM +0100, Slack Rat wrote:
> Thanks for the responses everyone.
> 
> I'm not in Canada, but am thinking of moving early next year. Currently
> I'm with Free.fr for an ISP (http://www.free.fr/adsl/internet.html)
> 
> So I'm trying to replace, insofar as it is possible, what I have here in
> France:   
> 
> In addition to the benefits advertized on their bait page, there's a
> handy 40gb hard drive in the television decoder, unlimited bandwidth, a
> landline and VOIP telephone numbers with free calls to most of the
> woorld landlines plus cell phones in country code 1, binary Usenet
> Newsgroups and reverse lookup if you want it, which I don't, plus sundry
> other goodies.
> 
> I'm a little miffed at the top speed offered by Teksavvy when I
> currently throw a hissy-fit if it drops below 20

Welcome to the 3rd world of information services.  In canada you get to
pay the highest prices for your cell phone services and get the least
service for your money.  The internet access is a bit expensive too and
certainly not the last and greatest.  ADSL2 is slowly starting to get
deployed in a few places, so some day ADSL may move beyond 5Mbps.

> But my main concern, and one that I currently have to wrestle with here
> is that Free.fr permits anything which doesn't violate the law, as
> implied in their anglicized name.
> 
> This of course includes spamming and virtually every French spammer has
> a Free.fr account.
> 
> The downside to this is that my IP is blocked by numerous  mail systems
> since it appears in several PBLs as a Level Three Spammer (PBL == Policy
> Block List, Level Three Spammer == an IP that has not spammed but which
> is in a block owned or controlled by an ISP which has refused to take
> any action against verified spammers)
> 
> So boiling it down.
> 
> 1) Is anyone aware of Teksavvy IPs appearing on any block lists or are
> being rejected by any email systems?

Not that I am aware of.

> 2) Does Teksavvy provide access to binary newsgroups since I'm going to
> lose my direct access to the TV channels that carry bike races live and
> will have to wat until they appear on UseNet as they usually do.

Hmm, good question.

According to the message on June 29, 2009 here
http://www.teksavvy.com/en/news.asp?ID=7&mID=4 it seems they do run a
usenet server (or at least give you access to one) and it sounds like
it includes binaries, if you use their mlppp service.  The phrasing is
a bit confusing.

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Len Sorensen
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