notodog

Some experiences on high speed internet:

1. Symaptico (Bell) ADSL ****s. I used this back a year ago, so things may have changed a lot, Flame me if I'm wrong.    The performance it really low, and the connection is error-prone. The best shit it can give you it about 1.2Mbits per second. So when you are downloading some crap from the net, a pittiful 100K speed could make you feel somewhat "blessed", while there's someone else can easily give you a much much higher number.

2. Rogers@Home rocks! Yup, it might not be called Rogers@Home anymore, but whatever the name is. I used it when I was in ottawa. Huh, here it is. We CANNOT have Rogers service here. But I still want to say, it could be the best high speed internet experience I ever had.

3. Videontron, so so, what else can I say? I got it last october, but my email account is still somewhere in the Mars. The speed is OK, 3Mbits per second as they promised, you can watch "naked news" smoothly. As I have used so far, I haven't felt any thing about the 6G limit. Yes, I do lots of downloading, movies, Mp3s, even warez. Nobody has bugged me about "Hey, yo, stop the f*cking downloading, you are off the limit".

P.S. Rogers offers a service far better that that of Videotron. The best thing is free USENET servers, lots of. All with high speed access. You can download warez, porns, musics with almost full lines speed (over 300KBytes/sec always). I don't know why the heck videtron isn't offering such services, or why Rogers isn't allowed to service us poorly equiped quebecois. Someone has the answer?   

*伙计*

现在情况是这样的，我的公司出于安全考虑要求我收发email都要在公司
的邮件服务器上进行，例如指定的服务器是btamail.net.cn吧，要求在
mail client中的smtp必须填btamail.net.cn，不能通过其他isp的smtp
中转。我已确认bell sympatico只能用bell的smtp，连接其他的smtp都
不行。所以我想知道videotron是怎么样的，如果videotran可以用其他
公司的smtp那就没问题了。如果要测试可以用yahoo的smtp，哪位朋友帮
忙测试一下，

其实也简单，在cmd窗口下打
telnet smtp.mail.yahoo.com 25
就可以了，如果出现提示
220 smtp0??.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP
就说明没问题，如果超时连接不上或者有其他提示就是不行了,多谢多谢。

DonCherry

Your command works under Videotron. I jsut tried

*伙计*

多谢, 多谢!
我下周就去安装

raven

Maximum Use.  The customer agrees that use of the Services in an “unlimited” manner refers only to the usage time and is based upon intermittent use.  Notwithstanding any contrary provisions, Vidéotron may impose certain reasonable conditions and limits on the customer’s use of the Services.  This Agreement entitles the customer to six (6) gigabytes (6144 megabytes) per month of downloading (from the Internet to the customer) and one (1) gigabyte per month of uploading (from the customer to the Internet).   All additional monthly transfers of data shall be invoiced at a cost of $0.02 per megabyte used in excess of the aforementioned limits.