Comment (R)ADSL In Halifax... (Score 1) 306
Well, unlike most of the above comments, I have had some pretty good luck getting ADSL hooked up.
I use "MpoweredPC" from MTT (Phone supplier for the Maritime Canadian provinces), which is mainly geared towards the residential customer. However, their system is quite good - RADSL setup with up to 7Mbps downstream and around 1.5Mbps upstream. This translates into about 550 kilobytes download max (700bkps off the internal network) and about 125 max upload.
The best part about it is that we have a competing cable modem service "Andara" which means the cost goes WAY down. I paid $25 installation, and only $45 bucks a month... Quite good considering the speed.
Even though they only officially support Windows 95 and 98 (no NT either), hooking it up with Linux is too easy...
And the quality of service is absolutely fantastic. The problems people describe above simply do not happen to me. (Not in the last 6 months anyhow). Pure speed, even at peak hours.
The only problems are that the system was designed mainly for "software on demand" (which nobody uses) so they built it around an internal network with a Cisco PIX router which does NAT translation of internal to external IP's. This can cause some problems, but lately hasn't given me any grief. As well the external addresses change every so often, so one must use a dynamic IP service like dynip.com or justlinux.com to be externally accessable.
The help desk people can be extreme fsckheads as well, but I try to fix my own problems versus relying on them.
So, just thought I'd throw out a good ADSL experience. I think the technology is sound, just that alot of the quality depends on the ISP...
I use "MpoweredPC" from MTT (Phone supplier for the Maritime Canadian provinces), which is mainly geared towards the residential customer. However, their system is quite good - RADSL setup with up to 7Mbps downstream and around 1.5Mbps upstream. This translates into about 550 kilobytes download max (700bkps off the internal network) and about 125 max upload.
The best part about it is that we have a competing cable modem service "Andara" which means the cost goes WAY down. I paid $25 installation, and only $45 bucks a month... Quite good considering the speed.
Even though they only officially support Windows 95 and 98 (no NT either), hooking it up with Linux is too easy...
And the quality of service is absolutely fantastic. The problems people describe above simply do not happen to me. (Not in the last 6 months anyhow). Pure speed, even at peak hours.
The only problems are that the system was designed mainly for "software on demand" (which nobody uses) so they built it around an internal network with a Cisco PIX router which does NAT translation of internal to external IP's. This can cause some problems, but lately hasn't given me any grief. As well the external addresses change every so often, so one must use a dynamic IP service like dynip.com or justlinux.com to be externally accessable.
The help desk people can be extreme fsckheads as well, but I try to fix my own problems versus relying on them.
So, just thought I'd throw out a good ADSL experience. I think the technology is sound, just that alot of the quality depends on the ISP...
