yo, there's adsl and cable, but the clear choice is cable unless you're a little mexican who can sneak into the CO and uncap yourself.. not to mention getting a better modem too. As a former user of Sympatico Highspeed, Orakle hereby decrees that their service, is uhh... shit. I've been on cable for a few months now and it beats the living crap out of the Montrealian dsl service:) Thing with DSL is that even if i'm close to the CO, which i am... about 100 meters close or about 300 feet, i still only get 100-150 kb/sec, while on cable, i've seen speed up to 500kb/sec. Sure, cable's more expensive, and DSL is dropping in price to try and compete, but personally, i think sympatico HSE is worth about $10 CDN a month and no more. their technical support team is a bunch of boneheads, especially the level one guys.. level 2 guys know their shit. I found that it would always die on my also. So once again, the clear choice for high speed broadband access in montreal is cable from uhh.. whatcha call it...
Personally, I think that the SDMI is just lying about the fact that only 2 watermarks were cracked. They're just protecting their asses. It's impossible that if they sent the watermarked files out to tons of universities in the USA that they wouldn't be cracked by now. I think they're just saying this so the RIAA and his little friends dont get all peeved off and have to research a new technology to attempt to secure music. And also, even if they are cracked, there is apparently a loss of quality. My answer: Who cares! There is a loss of quality from the original perfect mint quality music track but big deal, nobody downloads the perfect copies anyway. I'd have something to say about it if they had to drive the quality down less than 128 but for now it doesnt bother me at all.
Just my $0.00002 (new technology finds ways of cutting pennies in to veeeeeeeery small pieces:)
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yo, there's adsl and cable, but the clear choice is cable unless you're a little mexican who can sneak into the CO and uncap yourself.. not to mention getting a better modem too. As a former user of Sympatico Highspeed, Orakle hereby decrees that their service, is uhh... shit. I've been on cable for a few months now and it beats the living crap out of the Montrealian dsl service :) Thing with DSL is that even if i'm close to the CO, which i am... about 100 meters close or about 300 feet, i still only get 100-150 kb/sec, while on cable, i've seen speed up to 500kb/sec. Sure, cable's more expensive, and DSL is dropping in price to try and compete, but personally, i think sympatico HSE is worth about $10 CDN a month and no more. their technical support team is a bunch of boneheads, especially the level one guys.. level 2 guys know their shit. I found that it would always die on my also. So once again, the clear choice for high speed broadband access in montreal is cable from uhh.. whatcha call it...
Just my $0.00002 (new technology finds ways of cutting pennies in to veeeeeeeery small pieces :)
-orakle
-orakle