ISP Buy-out.

[swestrup]

Hmmm. I just woke up to find a message in my in-basket from my ISP. I originally signed up with DSL.ca a couple of years ago. Shortly thereafter they were bought out by wiznet.ca, and the transition was a bit rough, but they quickly became competant at what they were doing. Now though, they have just been bought out by magma.ca, which is already a part of Primus, and I don't know what that will lead to.

My current ISP has no bandwidth caps, has no policies against running a network, and allows you to run servers. I certainly hope none of that changes.

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I have heard good things about magma.ca quality of service. Not that I can testimony myself, but at least it is not like the others.

What would be the alternatives otherwise ?

[dcoombs.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always that huge, gigantic, monstrous behemoth that rhymes with Hell. Not that I have an opinion or anything.

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The one that provides MSN ?

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This is exactly what I said :-)

Sympatico prefers to provide MSN that to provide real service and not hangup when you pretend not using Windows and your line is actually down.

It's a cold day in bell

[swestrup]

Last time I checked, Bell didn't give you static IP addresses, had a policy against hooking up a network, had bandwidth caps AND had lousy tech support.

I think a couple of tin cans would be better.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

My ISP (which I actually happen to work for) is municipally owned, so is gonna be around for a long time!

[dcoombs.livejournal.com]

Ah, sweet sweet tbaytel. How I hated them when they started buying up every local little ISP I ever worked at. And how I like them now that they provide DSL.

It always amazes me how Thunder Bay has managed to fight off the intrusion of the behemoth that rhymes with Hell.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

We've actually got 4 people from Air, so there's a strong influence in things. There's actually a respectable number of users that still dial in and use Air/Baynet/Microage. The other day, I even ran into someone still using a Foxnet account, so there are still a couple of those aliases left in the system...

Bell's getting ready to move in-- they may start offering local telephone service as early next year, with Shaw in hot VOIP-based pursuit. But TV-Over-DSL is coming as soon as it wends its way through the CRTC, so we may just steal enough customers from Shaw to make up for it...