On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:49:08PM -0500, H. Kurth Bemis wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 16:27 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello Hroðgard Skjöldung! > > > > From the quote below (taken from Colba's website): > > > > "..Over the last four years, ColbaNet has installed its own equipment in > > nine Bell central offices on the island of Montreal. This project is > > being conducted according to the CRTC’s competition policies and > > principles. Thanks to its installations, ColbaNet is able to offer a > > unique service: Unlimited residential ADSL2+ internet access without > > throttling for as little as $20 per month..." > > > > Does this mean they are independent? Are they the only ISP with the > > capability to assign IP addresses without the control of the Big Three? > > Sustain > > > > No. No provider is independent, unless you buy from someone who owns > their own lines (Bell, Videotron, Rogers maybe). Colba simply co-lo's > it's gear in Bell central offices or in carrier hotels around the city.
I use taksavvy. I have no problems with them; I have no difficulty talking to tecnically competent support personnel when necessary. The line goes down sometimes, but not anything like multiple times a day. Usually just restarting the pppoe process on my network gateway is enough. I can't remember the last time I reset the modem. I gather from other comment on this thread that others have different experiences. My son uses colba. He says its service is excellent and fast -- when it works. It often has downtime, though. I gather from the other replies on this thread that others have different experience with colba, too. Having equipment colocated in the Bell exchanges at least has the potential of bypassing any throttling the Bell might be doing -- the throttling seems to be done in the access concentrator. But I suppose it depends on what equipment is located there. And once the connection gets to colocated equipment, it can be further sent through the ISP's own lines, if any. Before I signed up with teksavvy, I used dsl.ca, which was taken over by wiznet, which was taken over by magma.ca, which was taken over by primus. Dsl.ca provided competent texh support, even to the point of advising which Linux drivers to use and where to get them. The next time I needed support was after I had been shunted to Primus, which explicitly did not provide Linux support. To get them to do anything I had to run a piece of Windows-only software on my server, which was just not in the cards. This was not the kind of service I had originally signed up for. I dropped them like a hot potato and switched to teksavvy. I have a permanent IP number. The only trouble I have with my service is that some spam-hunting organisation has apparently decided that I have a temporary IP number, and as a result anyone that signes up with them cannot get any email form me. The spam-humter doesn't seem to want to listen to anyone as to the true status of my IP number. I suspect the spam-hunter's customers are pleased by the number of messages it blocks, rather than whether it blocks the right ones. > > IP addresses have nothing to do with it. Often the DSL traffic is > backhauled to the providers network (via ATM or something) and hits the > net from there. To the end user, you appear to be a client of your ISP. > You get an IP from their range (if the provider does this), you're > routed through their connections/IX agreements/etc. > > And like I said, IME people either get good service from Colba, or > totally crap service. YMMV. I once had problems maintaining a connection in the dark ages when I was using sympatico temporarily while looking for a better ISP. Bell came out repeatedly to fix the problem and each time told me that the line was fine, and indeed, when they showed up it was. I only had trouble while it was raining, and they would show up after the shower. The problem didn't get fixed until the second escalation to a higher-level network person. That technician understood something, listened to my description, including the story about rain that the others poohpoohed, and went up the poles, climbed ladders, and so forth, until he found the trouble -- a squirrel had gnawed through some insulation and rain caused a partial short. That was clearly Bell's problem. They did fix it eventually. > > ~k > > > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012, at 04:17 PM, Hroðgard Skjöldung wrote: > > > Hej, > > > I am not a client however, http://www.colba.net has a handful of > > > connections. I am not sure if they are outside of the oligopoly that > > > canada has, but they have better connections that other (most) > > > providers in quebec. > > > > > > Gleðilegt nýtt ár! Godt Nyt År! > > > hro > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
