On 10-05-04 07:20 AM, Lance A. Brown wrote: > Shawn said the following on 5/4/2010 6:55 AM: >> For Internet, I've been using SHAW's SOHO package for many years and >> have only seen a couple of outages (someone hit a telephone pole in one >> case, another was a problem in Lethbridge that took out Shaw's southern >> Alberta's internet access). Both were fixed quickly. > > Speaking of, does Shaw get their knickers in a twist over running > services on residential connections? I've had a personal "server" > running on my Time Warner RoadRunner connection pretty much since the > first day I had service with them and have never had any problems. > There are no serious public facing activities happening on it so I don't > have to worry about thousands+ of webhits per day or anything like that. > Officially you are not supposed to run servers on the residential packages, you are supposed to upgrade to a business package. Having said that, I have had an https, ssh, openvpn server running 24/7 for years without hassle. You only get called when you start abusing bandwidth. I am not sure what their formula is, but it does seem to favour uploading.
> Shaw seems like a likely candidate. How well do they respond to being > badgered in keeping the promotional pricing going with threats of > switching to another provider? :-) It depends. Since they don't lock you in to a long term contract, you can pretty much leave at will. I have left them a couple of times and they did not make the offers that the DSL providers made to try and retain me (ie. I did not have a lot of success playing games with them). I did get the promotional price for the advertised length of time, but did not get much more than that. Having said that, the product is far superior to their competitors so in the end I chose the product that I liked. Deep discounts are nice but I am addicted to 15Mbit and can not imagine going back to DSL, even if it were free.
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