OT - DSL providers Ottawa

[Russell McOrmond]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Ralph Pichie wrote:

> Anyone had experience with Storm for DSL in the Ottawa area?

   I have a Storm DSL and a Teksavvy DSL (Via NCF.ca) into my home.   For 
Teksavvy it is on my regular Bell POTS line (Which I plan to switch to 
Teksavvy as well when I get a "round tuit"), and for Storm it is on a 
so-called "dry loop".  I have IPv4 static IP addresses routed to each 
of them.

   Both are actual ISP's. I don't consider phone or cable companies to be 
ISPs as they are in a conflict of interest, and will always fail in 
providing proper ISP services for reasons documented in "The Innovators 
Dilemma".


> setup, as I don't have a land line. I've heard TekSavvy isn't bad
> either, but I hope to save a few days by picking up the equipment from
> a locally-based provider, which the latter is apparently not.

   I believe NCF resells preconfigured routers from their office.   I don't 
personally know as in both cases I am using a DSL modem plugged into a 
Linux router.  I may upgrade to a DSL router (IE: router that has the DSL 
modem built in) at some point in the future if I can get one I can flash 
Linux into.

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