On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:51, Thomas++ wrote: > > > Keith/sims email me (james.attardATgmailDOTcom) so I can share some > > > opinions with you. Unfortunately I cannot post here since I've been > > > working with some ISPs and it's not fair as I may sound biased. > > > > Sod that, share your views with us all. If you have some > > opinions, let us all know. This is what it's all about. > Yes, perfectly right! > > > > I use Waldonet, that you can see from my IP. I used to be > > with Onvol and they, IMO, were very good. I'd be very happy > > to use them again. In terms of download limits, Onvol have > > them and others do not. But Onvol have resonable d/l limits, > > I understand. > I have to agree with Iain. I am with Onvol too and find the service very > reasonable. As far as I know my d/l is 7 GB within 30 days. I never exceeded > the limit since now. Does anybody know what happens to Onvol clients if > somebody exceeds the d/l limit?
As I understand, Onvol will drop your bandwidth to something resembling an acoustic coupler, but they should tell you exactly what will happen. > What I do not like about Onvol is that they use to block several ports > without telling it to their clients. I was setting up a mail server on my > machine and was experiencing problems. Therefore I called the hotline to ask > them if port 25 is blocked in anyway. They told me it is not blocked. After > struggling and trying for another day I gave up. Later I have heard form a > friend that works with Onvol that they DO block port 25. I wasted at least > 10h of my work time. > > Before I was with Onvol I was with Maltanet. The service they offer in > regards to their hotline support is kind of arrogant. E.g. all lines are > busy or you can not reach them at all. If you reach somebody the people you > speak to are not very qualified. > I use to pay my subscription in cash and had to queue for more than 1h at > times. > I use to have connection problems quit often. This might be related to a > shitty phone line too, therefore I do not want to put the blame entirely on > my ISP. As far as I know DataStream is responsible for this kine of > problems. Therefore I changed to Onvol, since they have a cable network. I thought Datastream and Maltanet were all part of the same beast?? > In general I feel quit restricted to the port blocking and traffic shaping > and sizing policies in Malta. I can not use P2P at all, which is an > essential service of the Internet. Sadly P2P gobbles up too much bandwidth to expect 24/7 access. If we all were able to use 1 mbit links to the max, the island would need terabit connections to TI! > Online gaminging is not possible Why's that?? I understand that low ping times are the requirement here. Perhaps you could give us a server and we can each ping from the different ISPs to get some comparisons?? Also, have you tried using local gaming servers?? The local backbone will always have better response times. > and if I > want to download the newest Mandrake distribution I have to be careful about > my d/l limits. My opinion is that for the money paid the service should be > better and open! Check with Onvol about the d/l limits for local *and* international traffic. Regs. Iain.
