Mark Lanctot wrote: > > The so-called "independent" ISPs around here just buy bandwidth from > the big two so that wouldn't help either.
That's true, but it's not the whole story. At least for DSL service in Ontario, Bell (the phone company) implements their various limitations (such as bandwidth shaping, port 25 blocking, etc) at the ISP (Sympatico) layer, not at the DSL transport (Nexxia) layer. So the independent ISPs are free to sell you a service that has different (or no) limitations, even though they are reselling the same Bell Nexxia-provided DSL service. - Marc _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
