I had had experience with pretty much all of the providers suggested & for the most part they all suck to some degree. Shaw for me has had the least amount of suckage with Telus being the worst, Rogers second worst & Bell second best. As far as DSL goes in ALberta if you are using any DSL service you are going to be accessing Telus somewhere down the line, so when they have major problems, so will you. One of the best DSL providers I have dealt with has been Nucleus both from a business & personal level. I believe Platinum is still in the game but I am not sure. Depending on where you live, Xplornet may be an option for you as they offer satellite as well.
My experince with Shaw & servers & from talking to there support has been that if you don't over do it, chances are they won't bug you about running services. I have been using there stuff for years (al be it not running servers) & have been overall pretty happy. Service has been good & very responsive. Best of all no contracts. From a price match perspective...I have got a few perks/freebies over the years & have known some people to have success in changing their pricing. My biggest complaint has been when the digital phone craps out. It has not happened a lot, but it is the fact that it happens. Yes it could happen on a POTS line, but that is so rare it is negliable. I have been relatiely impresse din my experiences with Shaw technical support, with a few exceptions, but stuff happens with everyone. I to am waiting to see what happens with WInd Mobile as well. They are a new spectrum provider that runs on 1700/2100. The have a link to T-Mobile in the States & from what I understand if you are able to get an unlocked T-Mobile phone you can actiavte it on WInd for free. The biggest barrier for them at this point is coverage but it is expanding. There phones have unlimited data plans & can be tethered to a laptop for no additional charges. Something else to consider is that they have a cost-sharing arrngment with Shaw for building towers & there has been stuff floating around that Shaw will be entering the moble game as well. I would imagine it will be new spectrum phones & from what I understand they would be whitelabelling initially. HTH _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
