perdurabo said: ------------ I am personally aware of local folks at a few local ISPs who like "examining web/nntp traffic" and "grepping for interesting keywords" in mail spool files. Sometimes being a little random cog in a big corporate machine is a good thing. Holy crap! That's mega-creepy, man. Bad news. FYI, I get 375kB/s downloads normally from Comcast. With BitTorrent, 600kB/s+ is usual. :) Their physical service and customer service have both been good. Aside from the fact that they're a huge faceless corporation, and charge an arm and a leg... I can't find any fault with them as an ISP.. Methinks we get what we pay for, in that case. -Max perdurabo crafted these words on 06/22/04 13:19: If you want insane download speeds, try Comcast. Comcast was regularly about twice as fast as my DSL going downstream. Upstream, I found it to be about half the speed of DSL.If you want good upload speeds, try DSL. For gaming and ping times, Comcast was faster, and I'll probably end up going back to them for that reason and the fact that their customer service has been great in my experience... unlike the completely inept Qwest reps. If you go with a local company, make damned sure they aren't a bunch of unbathed Linux hobbyists who's "servers" are home-built PC's with the cases missing. I'd try to visit their offices, if possible, as well. Additionally, if you are concerned about your privacy, you might want to give weight to a big corporation, as I am personally aware of local folks at a few local ISPs who like "examining web/nntp traffic" and "grepping for interesting keywords" in mail spool files. Sometimes being a little random cog in a big corporate machine is a good thing. ~ per On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:06:30 -0700 (PDT), Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I should also mention he's not in until after 10am :-) --- Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |
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