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Subject: Re: Bell sympatico high speed (DSL)
Name:
Hugh
Date: 2/25/2001 11:36:25 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 24.42.138.149
In Reply to: Bell sympatico high speed (DSL) posted by
Dan
Message:
I live in Ottawa also! I just moved here about a month ago and before I was living in Aylmer, Québec. In Aylmer I was using the bell sympatico high speed service and I always got about 100KB (Kbytes and not Kbits) download. As for upload, speeds were about 15Kb/second. However, before getting these speeds I had to apply a few tweaks/patches to the registry. You can find them by following the link below.
When I moved to Ottawa, I decided to try the rogers@home high speed service. Since my roomates have cable, the price is the same than sympatico ($39.99/month). So far I'm pretty happy. Download speeds are always about 250KB/s and upload is about 40KB/s. The only things is that in order to get the most out of connection I have to use a download manager called "download manager". Basically what it does is use 7 simulanious connections so that you use your maximum bandwith (also sometimes sites limit the outgoing bandwith/connection so this gets around that). My only complaint about the service is that they charged my 49.99 this month and I still haven't figured out why...
Hope this helps,
Hugh
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