Ok, all I have to say is I have not once had a problem with my @home connection and i've had it for about 3 years now. I am on the ym1.on.home.com segment and honestly the biggest problem i have ever had was every so often maybe once every 3 months i will lose connectivity for maybe a half hour at most. No comparing this to what i used to receive with dialup access its an amazing service, my transfer rates are phenomenal, sure sometimes there is network slow down, but i'm not about to complain because i am only receiving 15-22k/second down stream from a specific site when i can compare that with 9k on dialup. look at HSE (adsl) Bell Canada High Speed Edition... yah there's a good service *s*a*r*c*a*s*m* and you are complaining about a 50k out bound cap? try going out at 12k, and on top of that "having" to go through a proxy server, have you ever tried to get something other than windows to work with pppoe?
All I can say is @home has to be the most complete and stable home based internet service available.
And in regards to being banned from dalnet, oddly enough i dont have that problem accessing dalnet (then again it is dalnet so who would care?), and admittedly I will accept the fact that yes being an @home user we are k-lined off most irc servers available.
The problems with @home are all along the same equation with gun control in the states
give everybody access to a gun and things go wrong
give everybody access to bandwidth and things go wrong
anyways thats my two cents... and stop your bitching about a service that is miles ahead of dialup. If you are unhappy run an oc3 into your basement
Ok, not to be "pro-microsoft" or anythign here, but comparing the uptime of windows 2000 with others really doesnt make much sense now does it? Windows 2000 has been available for how long? certainly not 1994 days:P
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Like I said in my response to one person give everybody guns and things go wrong give everybody good bandwidth at home and things go wrong
Ok, all I have to say is I have not once had a problem with my @home connection and i've had it for about 3 years now. I am on the ym1.on.home.com segment and honestly the biggest problem i have ever had was every so often maybe once every 3 months i will lose connectivity for maybe a half hour at most. No comparing this to what i used to receive with dialup access its an amazing service, my transfer rates are phenomenal, sure sometimes there is network slow down, but i'm not about to complain because i am only receiving 15-22k/second down stream from a specific site when i can compare that with 9k on dialup. look at HSE (adsl) Bell Canada High Speed Edition ... yah there's a good service *s*a*r*c*a*s*m* and you are complaining about a 50k out bound cap? try going out at 12k, and on top of that "having" to go through a proxy server, have you ever tried to get something other than windows to work with pppoe?
... and stop your bitching about a service that is miles ahead of dialup. If you are unhappy run an oc3 into your basement
All I can say is @home has to be the most complete and stable home based internet service available.
And in regards to being banned from dalnet, oddly enough i dont have that problem accessing dalnet (then again it is dalnet so who would care?), and admittedly I will accept the fact that yes being an @home user we are k-lined off most irc servers available.
The problems with @home are all along the same equation with gun control in the states
give everybody access to a gun and things go wrong
give everybody access to bandwidth and things go wrong
anyways thats my two cents
Ok, not to be "pro-microsoft" or anythign here, but comparing the uptime of windows 2000 with others really doesnt make much sense now does it? Windows 2000 has been available for how long? certainly not 1994 days :P