Comments on: More istop fun

By: dargit

dargit — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:18:19 +0000

Yes, some friends of mine switched to istop ADSL from sympatico ADSL. I am not sure if they had the old original “good” DSL or the crappy HSE with PPPoE. I suspect the later. I have been tempted as well after a rash of sympatico ADSL outages. As I work from home, I need reliable connectivity. But I have the older “good” DSL as you know so I’d prefer to add connectivity rather than switch.. Maybe I can get a cheap dialup plan from istop for those occasionaly outages instead. hrmmm ;-)

By: dargit

dargit — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:14:59 +0000

I tracerouted from my sympatico DSL to istop, 20 hops, down into the states and back.. yuck… shame istop + sympatico don’t/won’t/can’t (whatever) peer somewhere. Even at torix would be better. A friend of mine was pushing for an ottix peer point, () that would really help this nonsense.

By: bertho

bertho — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:35:44 +0000

hehe. The internet can be fun sometimes. I did a traceroute to work one time and got about 20 hops.

It’s probably easier to start with “Well, what do you have?”

I knew you were going to say that as soon as I posted. I’ll have to dig them out and look. About all I know right now is one’s a Fujitsu (actually, I have two of those), and there was some change made to my line after a reconnection that made that not compatible (which took them a month to figure out), so I got another one. Earthlink liked to give me modems. Anyway, yeah, I’ll look a little later and get back to you.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:20:02 +0000

Heh. I can't connect to their site.

Yeah, well, see my latest post. :-)

What model is the modem? I've got a couple hanging around that might possibly in some normal world work, or are you required to rent it?

Generic, made by some Japanese keiretsu I've never heard of. It's just standard ADSL, POTS in one hole and ethernet in the other. It's probably easier to start with "Well, what do you have?" :-)

By: bertho

bertho — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:16:18 +0000

Heh. I can’t connect to their site.

What model is the modem? I’ve got a couple hanging around that might possibly in some normal world work, or are you required to rent it?

By: brianenigma

brianenigma — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:33:16 +0000

This reminds me of my hosting provider (DreamHost). While not an ISP, just a hosting company, they know their stuff, they run things extremely well, and certainly have that mom and pop mentality. I think I have posted excerpts from their newsletters in the past, for for an immediate concrete example, last month's newsletter was written entirely by "a robot" and had links to pictures of him/it and his family. It had the appropriate literary style to be a 50's sci-fi robot, and I think it even had references to pushing, shoving, and stairs in your house. Their online knowledge base even includes things like "Q: What happen? A: All your base are belong to us." Putting the job stuff in a rarely used DNS record type is genius, though. I think I need to convince my company to do something similar but more slanted toward programming than IT.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:37:06 +0000

I wouldn’t have put it past Ralph to charge more after the upgrade, and he isn’t, so I’m happy. :-)

The guy who referred me to IStop was about 8′ from the CO, so got 6Mb down for the price of 3. He was a friend of Ralph’s, though.

By: wohali

wohali — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:42:07 +0000

FYI, all DSL customers in the city are getting that speed upgrade courtesy of Symaptico upgrading the equipment. It’s not something special they’re doing for you, except for the transfer limits.

My mom & pop ISP here in town (dsl.ca) gives me static IP and no bandwidth cap at all. ^_^ At no extra charge. It’s the “Freaks & Geeks Family Plan.” (Informally, of course.)

By: roy

roy — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:00:16 +0000

that rocks. i downloaded the iq test for shits and giggles. :p

i wish we had a local mom and pop isp who aren’t complete retards. i could probably score a job with them.