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To   : Coridon Henshaw
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Tue Aug 29 2000 02:24 am

 > On Saturday August 26 2000 at 16:53, Bob Seaborn wrote to Jim Rysyk:
 >
 >BS>       I used to, gave up on SaskTel's hispeed ADSL service as being too
 >BS> unstable.  Them, not the OS or anything else.  For example, they would
 >BS> simply shut down the DSL service for a minute or two every day, without
 >BS> warning, or when asked about it, they denied it was happening, even
 > though
 >BS> logs showed it happened every day at the exact same time for the
 > previous 3
 >BS> months.
 >
 > "We don't have to care.  We're the phone company."

      Considering that it was only this past June 29th that SaskTel came under
the auspices (and control) of the CRTC, you don't know how true this comment 
is.  I recall when they had the audacity to tell Radio Shack that they were not 
allowed to supply their catalogs to any Saskatchewn resident, as it included 
telephones for sale, and Saskatchewan residents were NOT allowed to own their 
own phones.  Radio Shack countered by putting small print on the telephone 
pages "not available in Saskatchewan".



 >
 > From the number of complaints I've seen about @Home, cable is *worse*.


      I've been connected to Shaw's service here for a few years now, first
their WAVE service, then @home, and finally the new thing they're doing with 
excite.ca.   Other than some outages, usually due to a cable cut, I've had no 
serious problems.  But than I don't use any of their offerings except a 
connection to the internet (well, I do use their dns as a secondary).  I have 
my own server (nwstar.com) that's not on a Shaw system, plus my own smtp server 
in my local firewall

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