I just got my Shaw@home a couple of days ago and I don't think its that bad.
The up and down speeds are just fine and even though its dynamic ip's they
don't change very often so I can telnet/ftp/httpd/x session anyway.
BTW I'm in Calgary.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Danen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:57 PM
To: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List
Subject: Re: [expert] external dsl modem (Westel)
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> > > Vincent, what ISP are you using? You're in Canada right? What kind of
DSL
> > > service do you have (download/upload)...
> >
> > My ISP is Nucleus (based out of Calgary, AB) so I get my ADSL from
> > them. And it's 1.5MB download and 640k upload speeds I believe. But I
> > get to do pretty much anything I like with it except for streaming
> > audio/video, and I got 7 static IP addresses so it works out pretty
> > good. And many people have said it's faster than when I was using SHAW
> > for the @home cable connection (for my website and FTP downloads and
> > such). Go figure. =)
> >
> > BTW, I'm in Edmonton, AB.
>
> Okay, so you have *real* DSL! =) Many prople have the slower, ADSL-lite,
> at 1 meg/sec and it requires pppoe to obtain its ip address.
>
> It must cost you an arm and a leg, no?
$85/mo plus GST. Not too bad considering I was paying $40/mo for cable
internet before. =)
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