Hmmm. I did a bit of research before I decided to go with Jump.net, and found
that there were reports of REALLY dissatisfied users of the SWBELL.NET
services. Reports were that they were/are overcommitting their bandwidth.
Reports said that the transfer rates were as guaranteed, but that the ping
times/connect times were at times as slow as a dial-up. Not good if you're
running your own nameserver. Word has it that Jump has much more in the way of
multiple connections to backbone, etc. I wouldn't recommend that anyone go for
the swbell.net services without at least researching this before making a
decision.
Simon
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, clifford uel smith wrote:
>Go to the same place all the rest of these local outfits have to fool
>with before they can offer you ADSL and that is SWBELL.NET......
>This is not a plug, but I have a nice block of static IP numbers, they
>could give a poot about what kind of business I am running out of my
>bedroom and this usage is totally unmetered.....The speed never wavers
>on my end and I am up 24x7.
>The rate I pay for is 750kb/s into the house and 300++Kb out......What I
>get is usually a lot higher than that....I have no reliable way to
>measure it except to go 'Holy Shit" when the meter at the bottom of
>netscape climbs past 185 KB/s........
>The Bell people are slow, incompetent, almost recalcitrant to help in
>ANY area outside their job description BUT they could also give a shit
>what kind of operating sysyem I use. They gave me my block of numbers
>before the tech arrived to install the splitter and the alcatel"modem"
>and I used my own NIC and had the computers ready to go when he got
>here. It was a full 30 seconds of waiting while he programmed the
>alcatel and I was off to the races............
>I LOVE ADSL and have it on good authority that it is going to get
>FASTER in the next year or so.
>Now If I could just keep my mail machine from locking up.......
>Oh, yeah, all of the wonderful TECHNOLOGY costs me about $80.00 over my
>normal phone bill....
>Clifford
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