At home (where I am now) I run sympatico DSL. In the house I have a LAN with 4 users & the limit doesn't seem to affect us. My cost is $35 a month Canadian. My LAN & Internet is up 24/7 & to my knowledge sympatico is almost never down. Plus, I get 10 hours free a month to use with a dial-up modem. I let my daughter in Guelph use this & she essentially gets free access. All in all, I think sympatico is a good deal.
My brother just outside Toronto is stuck with cable since he is just outside the 5 mile limit from a Bell switching station & he can not get Sympatico highspeed. Every time I talk to him his service is down. For some strange reason the cable company gives out fixed IP addresses & some jerk on his local node keeps stealing his IP address & he losses access. The cable company doesn't seem to care. He also pays exactly the same monthly rate that I do.
Our local school used the satellite for a while & on average it seemed to give the same performance as Sympatico high speed or cable.
Howard,
Are you sure they purposely throttle your upload? As far as I know both cable & DSL have technical reasons that seriously affect upload speeds. My upload speed is about 1/4 or 1/3 of download speed.
[ 21. November 2002, 04:03: Message edited by: Jack Lothian ]
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