Like I said. I wasn't supprised when BGP brought out eye glaze for the poor tech. It was a home connection. He DID have 2 providers (still does).
DSL is cheaper, but really, who cares. DSL=$80/mo vs Cable $120/mo. 40 dollars a month isn't enough to worry about. Not compared to service. Shaw was installed in 24 hours, and my experience had been quite reliable. That's worth $40 a month. End of story. At home, it might be different, but I just run the cheapie, so price is the same either way. I've had Shaw now for 3 years, and I've never had a complaint except for the few days of changing IP addresses. That's rare, and really, I KNOW i have a DHCP address, so I don't really have a legitimate complaint anyway. It's just annoying. I've never used Shaw's email. I can't speak for or against it. I'm sure there are some nasty letters in there regarding my bandwidth useage some months, but I've never seen 'em. I had a MyRealBox account when I moved here (Free mail from Novell. Similar to M$ Hotmail, except with IMAP4, and a 10 Meg limit.). I was happy with it, and I chose it so that I wouldn't go through changing adresses when companies changed owners. Proved itself to be a good call during the @shaw.com to @shaw.ca move a while back... I've never called Tech Support except for failures at their end, and that's only happend once, during a rainstorm downtown. The issue was promptly resolved, and I was a "your call is important to us..." caller for only about 2 mins. My Boss had a cable modem go dead when a pipe in his house burst above his server (Thankfully it protected the Linux box, so it was a worthwhile loss.) It was replaced immediately. His monitor was not so fortunate. With that type of service, I'll continue to recommend them. Shaw has proven more reliable over the last 18 months than our T3 (AT&T). Service is better, and prices are better. The Cable is faster Downloading, and I don't upload enough large files to care about the upload speed cap. By all means, if your experiences are different, then recommend someone else. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:14 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) group discount on web access > At 11:32 AM 9/30/02, you wrote: > >I've heard really good things about Nucleus. Even for one person running a > >Linux server. He said the techs eyes glazed over when he asked about BGP, > >but that's forgiveable for a SOHO tech support person. Most people don't > >really want to run BGP out of their house. If someone wanted DSL instead of > >Cable, I'd recommend Nucleus based on what I've been told by people I trust. > >I have no personal experience though. > > I doubt most ISPs want you to use BGP. You are behind their BGP routers in > the first place so they would have to change their routing for you, > otherwise BGP routing will only benefit you on their network and not the > internet as a whole. I understand if you pay TAC enough per month they will > allow you to handle your own BGP routing. Of course BGP routing is only > going to be an advantage to you if you have multiple internet providers. > > Also I guess this is Calgary, Interbaun isn't an option. > > ADSL is much cheaper for a business (hosting with static IPs) account than > Shaw. Shaw charges an arm and a leg and isn't much cheaper than the > monitored ADSL services from AT&T and TAC. Nucleus will give you like 8 > static IPs for $79.95 per month. > > BTW, I have heard shaw is much better than they use to be but their still > support sucks. I remember that my connection in calgary would go down for > extended periods weekly and the mail (albeit @home run) was always messed up. > > -- > Mark Lane > Hard Data Ltd. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 > FAX: 01-780-456-9772 > > 11060 - 166 Avenue > Edmonton, AB, Canada > T5X 1Y3 > > http://www.harddata.com/ > --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <-- > > > > >
