> > On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, slava voronin wrote: > > time. I have never been impressed with sprint's network. I could go on and > on forever bitching about sprint.
I don't see it that way. SFU and UBC are on CAnet; during
peak hours, their connection to many other places doesn't seem to be
as fast as compared to Internet Direct, which is using StarCom and Sprint.
(I don't know about MCI, though.) I assumed that since the US is richer
than us Canadians, they have more backbones than CAnet.
> ADSL routes via BCTel. BCTel peer's with MCI and now Starcom (who peers
I agree wth the first part, but further upstream, it depends on who
your ISP is. (Internet Direct does provide ADSL as well as Sympatico.)
I had a friend who was using Roger's Cable modem in Vancouver.
His internet feed was in Ottawa, so any telnet connection from,
say Internet Direct, would be terribly slow as well as ftp transfer rate.
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