On 01/30/12 00:02, Michael Goguen wrote: > I am on NCF. They are good peeps. They are helpful, but they do not have > the staff to do lots of intensive tech support; you would do well if you > can do much of this yourself, perhaps. > > I feel like I've had more issues than, say, I've seen my parents have with > Bell internet, in terms of outages, although they have a pretty good system > for letting people know what is going on etc, if you check out their site > and stuff. > > I feel pretty sure I'm being throttled, with the issues I'm having with > certain sites, and I don't feel that NCF is very likely to do this, so I > wonder if somewhere else along the line I am having issues - network card > or OS or whatever are possibilities, but Bell owns the infrastructure, and > some sites might be routed through other bottlenecks/ control points, so I > was wondering if others might be throttling my connection sometimes, and my > guess was that it would be Bell. They have been doing stuff to try and... > force the small providers to charge the same prices they do, to kill their > competitiveness, etc. They resell TekSavvy. Bell turned off all throttling last year (so they say but I believe them). Go to c