Marc Sherman Wrote: > 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
Well that's good to know! Thanks. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24388 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
