[kwlug disc.] Rogers ISP - cost competitive?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Friday 15 June 2007 5:50 pm, Unsolicited wrote:
> If I stay copper, I'm staying Golden. They've just been too good.
> [Although their warning if you go over 10 GB monthly transfer they
> just cut you off is irritating. Particularly since they say no warning
> and provide no means of finding out how much you've used that month so
> far.]

My vote's for scsinternet.com out of Wingham; they've got their own LNS at 151 
Front in Toronto, offer multihomed IPs and are the only DSL ISP I know of 
that will do QoS for VOIP on their end of your pipe, helping keep voice 
quality top-notch.  They also offer you nekkid DSL and shortly some very 
attractive peering agreements with carriers that host VOIP providers, giving 
you about as low a latency connection as possible.

And if you're willing to pay for a private VPI/VCI (i.e. commercial service) 
you can get rid of the LNS and avoid possibly the single largest point of 
failure in DSL these days: the damned PPPoE session.

Pricing's pretty much the same as anyone else, static IPs available and NO 
NONE ZERO ZIP ZILCH NONE WHATSOEVER FRIGGING BANDWIDTH CAPS.

Full disclosure: I do contract work for them, specifically in the area of QoS 
and VOIP.

-A.