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Nope, I'm out of range (> 4km from nearest DSL compatible phone switch), so
I can't get DSL until 6 months from whenever I ask when it will be available.
Maybe the Rogers technicians are focusing on keeping the Toronto servers up
and letting us weirdos here in the far west fend for ourselves. :)
-uf
At 08:34 PM 10/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi JimG and Ullrich...
>
>I'm from Canada, eh...<g>... Toronto, Ontario precisely, and also use
>Rogers Cable @home... I have had the service for about 18 months and the
>service hasn't been down more than a couple of times... not that I know of
>anyways and I'm on about 12 hours per day...
>
>After having said that I've heard that other parts of Toronto that have
>"older" cables have had their problems but we had new fibre-optic cable
>installed before we got the cable modem..
>
>Ullrich ... have you tried the Bell offering??
>
>Hugh
>
>
>At 07:49 PM 10/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>uf,
>> So far, so good here, but that's on a very limited sample of about
>> one week. Jones cable just put in all new fiber here about a year ago,
>> so that may help. Are the problems there cable or server related or do
>> you know?
>>
>>JimG
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: <mailto:uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Ullrich Fischer
>>>To: <mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 3:07 PM
>>>Subject: Re: ATHM
>>>
>>>Another data point for you, Jim: I've had @home cable modem service
>>>from Rogers Cable in Canada for the past month and a half. The service
>>>has gone down on average 1.5 times per week for an average of 10 minutes
>>>at a time. Today, it was down for about 1/2 hour during trading
>>>hours. I had one short position in MO open at the time, fortunately,
>>>it kept going down until the service came back up. When I called @HOME
>>>tech support, they had a canned message saying they know they have
>>>problems with the server for my area but don't know when it will be fixed.
>>>
>>>When the service is up, it is great, but reliability needs a bit more
>>>work. If I had a choice between DSL and Cable modem in my area, I think
>>>I would go for DSL.
>>>
>>>-uf
>>>
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