Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Gustin Johnson
On 10-05-04 07:35 PM, Lance A. Brown wrote: > Gustin Johnson said the following on 5/4/2010 7:39 PM: >> 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 ru

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Gustin Johnson said the following on 5/4/2010 7:39 PM: > 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

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Gustin Johnson
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 S

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread TekBudda
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

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Neil Bower
Another ISP provider is www.lightspeed.ca. They provide naked ADSL. Half decent rates. Decent speeds. You can get a static IP relatively cheap. If no active phone line, you pay an extra $10 a month as a tariff to pay for the infrastructure from your place to the switching location. They are a small

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread bogi
No, i usually run an experimental web server on my box, no problems. but they do have a commercial package for $10 extra and fixed ip addresses :-) Cheers Szemir On May 4, 2010 07:20:07 Lance A. Brown wrote: > Shawn said the following on 5/4/2010 6:55 AM: > > For Internet, I've been using SHAW's

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
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). Bot

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Shawn
Gustin Johnson wrote: Rogers SIM) for 10 years. I am not happy with any data plans. I have a few clients on Bell and they seem to suck the least. I have high hopes As a past Bell customer, I abandoned them after they dropped my calls numerous times, and then when I called to inquire about i

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Gustin Johnson
On 10-05-03 11:51 AM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: > >> ISP Service: Need network connectivity at home, broadband is a must. > > Shaw have pretty good/fast cable service, Telus do DSL. Some of the CLUG > use Rogers Wireless internet and seem happy with that. > No one can beat Shaw for performance

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-03 Thread bogi
Shaw does it, it is fast and reliable, and they also do home-phone ip phone kinda thingy it's sip service, but locked to their servers... again, since you are looking for mobile phone stuff it might not be relevant to you. Cheers Szemir On May 3, 2010 11:39:24 Lance A. Brown wrote: > Greetings,

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-03 Thread Patrick Radtke
I recommend AT&T :) We have our iPhone from when we lived in NY. We were on a sweet North America plan that lets us call and roam anywhere in North America (the NA that includes mexico and the Caribbean) which is better (minutes/$) then any plan in Canada. We don't have data up here which kind of

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-03 Thread simon
> ISP Service: Need network connectivity at home, broadband is a must. Shaw have pretty good/fast cable service, Telus do DSL. Some of the CLUG use Rogers Wireless internet and seem happy with that. > > Cellular service: lived on our cell phones for years now. Since it > appears I can't just

[clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
Greetings, Everything is proceeding (relatively) smoothly for our move from North Carolina to Calgary at the end of the month. We are planning on arriving on the 28th and unpacking over the weekend. Finally, some concrete dates for all this! Anyway, I'd like to ask for your input on: ISP Servi