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mcgillianaire

The Joys of Unlimited Internet

Oct 02, 2005 02:00

Yesterday was an intense session of Remix Downloading. With my previous provider I could only download a maximum of 20GB and upload 10GB. Yesterday I dowloaded more than a 2GB worth of music and tvshows but more significantly allowed others to upload over 6GB worth of junk from my computer.

This included downloading, 15 remixes of Coldplay's ( Read more... )

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thothmeister October 2 2005, 14:40:19 UTC

What ISP are you currently using? The download/upload cap you mentioned sounds like Videotron (which I'm with currently), and I'm always on the lookout for a non-Sympatico alternative.

mcgillianaire October 2 2005, 16:38:41 UTC

Yeh i was with Videotron but now I'm with Sympatico. To be quite honest, aside from the 2 weeks it took me to get through to them and finally get my modem connected (I'm on High-speed w/o a Residential line), they've offered awesome service so far. It's almost as fast as Videotron, and sometimes msn transfers with friends even in NY are faster.

Nothing comes better than unlimited.

thothmeister October 3 2005, 13:46:39 UTC

No arguement that Unlimited is great. Sympatico, OTOH... I generally don't like the workings of DSL, but I dislike giving Bell anything more as service/payment more.

mcgillianaire October 3 2005, 18:09:20 UTC

Out of curiousity, what is it about DSL you don't like? and whats wrong with Bell? :)

thothmeister October 4 2005, 21:29:42 UTC

DSL gets slower the further away you get friim a Bell switching station. I don't like a technology that yiu may pay for at one speed but actually be getting something else.

I don't like the download cap of Videotron, but at least you are sure of getting the speed you pay for.

As to Bell and Sympatico itself: their tech support tends to be even dumber than that of Videotron - if the staff even believe in their product. My brother-in-law used to work for one of their contract helpdesk companies. Of the 25 people there only 6 used the product they handled. Most of the rest used some form of Videotron.

mcgillianaire October 5 2005, 01:38:56 UTC

>DSL gets slower the further away you get friim a Bell switching station.
Oh wow, I didn't know that! Do you know where or where I could find out where these switching stations are located?

>Most of the rest used some form of Videotron.
Heh, I've noticed this as well. And when I used to call Sprint for technical support they were horrible maybe b/c almost every single one I talked to used Fido!

thothmeister October 5 2005, 14:06:13 UTC

I don't know where you can find out how far you are from a switching station, unfortunately.

I quit Sprint's Internet 8 years ago because of bad service: back then I had a 56k dialup modem, and it constantly dropped signal.

The techies kept maintaining I had a motherboard problem. As soon as I tried another ISP however it worked fine.

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