Hello everyone, I am sorry to bring up such a nonsensical ISP battle thread here, but lately the MTS connection I've been using where I am living. My landlord is nice enough to pay for the Internet and include it in the rent, so I really can't switch over even if I wanted to...
When I normally have the choice of ISP, I normally go with Shaw Cablesystems. To me it personally makes more sense that a coaxial cable can carry bandwidth better than a twisted pair. Not entirely sure how true that statement is, but to me, it seems right. Whenever I had Shaw, I never had to deal with broken connections, lag, and other nonsense that I've been struggling with over the past weeks. There are actually times where I just stop using the MTS connection and tether through my smartphone to get a more reliable connection. I find that odd, that a cellular network connection is more reliable than a landline connection. A few examples of issues I've been experiencing lately on MTS: broken SSH connections, webpages sometimes just don't load at all, and the connection breaks so badly that my plasma Gmail widget crashes my entire desktop. I'm still on an older version of KDE4, so I assume when a connection breaks on newer version, it won't bring down all of plasma. Anyways, when I was on Shaw, or even my Telus cellular connection, I don't experience all of these headaches mentioned above. I want to know if you had any similar experiences with any of the local ISPs. I also wouldn't mind a nice break down on each service in terms of how one can potentially be more reliable than the other. I've heard some interesting things about ADSL and how someone in the neighborhood can basically slow down the entire area, and heard that with Cablesystems this isn't the case, and it's more of how far you are from the so-called "head office". I'd rather get some proper education on how both of these systems work, rather than relying on possible misinformation I learned before. An interesting thought for a class to be held at the space, would be education on how ISP works in general, and compare ADSL to Cable without all the marketing bullshit. I am sure there are people at this space whom work for either MTS or Shaw, and having them at such a presentation would be a nice idea, perhaps both to get a better perspective. -- Kevin <m...@iamkevin.ca> _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
