On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:01:52PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Hello and thanks to all who contributed! > > A permanent IP # - that's a dedicated address on the Internet, > but costs extra (?). What does your service agreement say?
They charge me an extra $5 a month on top of a so-called unlimited monthly bandwidth, which in practise means I'm limited by technology and not by ISP games. At least, not by any games Teksavvy is playing. There is a terrible shortage of IP numbers world-wide. and though people keep finding ways to stave off disaster, the only real solution is to go over to IPv6. Teksavvy was reported some time ago to be providing IPv6 on an experimental basis. I don't know whether it's moved out of the experimental phase yet. I've heard a rumour that they are providing it via the IPv6-over-IPv4 services of Hurricane Electric. Go google them if you're interested. You may be able to accomplish a permanant IPV6 through an impermanent IPv4. > > Colba's service agreement (not a contract) does not guarantee any > level of service! The last time I spoke to vif.com (my current > supplier), they spewed nonsense about how management didn't "buy > enough IP #" from BellNexia". Oligopoly Я Us! Does Colba provide statistics about what their QoS has been in the past? > > I'm guessing some ISPs are optimizing their ration of either > bandwidth or IP # or both and re-selling to VOIP providers. So > their profit picture depends on disrupting service at any time! > See the pitiful discussion at - > [1]http://blogs.teksavvy.com/ about terrible service. I wouldn't > be crying for help if I hadn't read this. It looks as if Rogers, in particular, is limiting communications between the home user and Teksavvy -- something Teksavvy can do little about except route around it (using DSL) and complain to the CRTC. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
