For the old timers

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:54:46AM -0400, Scott Allen wrote

> I still hear that sound every morning when I check my e-mail on my
> Look dial-up account.
> 
> However, I'll finally stop sometime this September when my year's
> subscription runs out. I've subscribed to Teksavvy DSL and am
> transitioning to Gmail for my primary mail account.

  I'm with Teksavvy, but I still keep a dialup account as a backup.
It's with 295.ca.  Wanna guess how much they charge per month?  I
deliberately have my backup account with a different provider than my
broadband account.  The idea is that if Teksavvy were knocked out by
bankruptcy, or even temporarily by mundane backhoe or server problems,
both their broadband and dialup operations could be affected.  By using
two different providers, I reduce the "single point of failure"
exposure.  Note that I said "reduce", not "eliminate".  Both dialup and
ADSL operate over the same phone line.  To eliminate that, I would have
to subscribe to cable Teksavyy internet (currently being rolled out in
the GTA; see webpage http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp#cable ) and
295.ca telephone dialup.

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