Oh, geez. You know, you absolutely have not tested MTS against Shaw in every area of this city. My MTS connection is fast and reliable. I've never noticed a disconnect in well over a year now. Latency is not an issue for me. MTS is EXTREMELY reliable. I've yet to experience ANY problem with PPPoE/MTS. MTS has never changed a thing on my account without working on my behalf. They block port 25? Maybe for residential accounts, and who cares?
Last time I spoke with Shaw, they came right out and told me that they could not provide me with the service I get with MTS. "We don't consider there to be a problem until speeds drop below double digits". BELOW DOUBLE-DIGITS!! Incredible! That was a direct quote from Shaw. So in other words, they were making it very clear to me that they really don't care if their product is fast or not (at least for the corporate packages).
So maybe you had a bad experience with MTS and have some hard-on against them. Because what you have described about MTS is nowhere near what I or a dozen other business account holders I know have experienced. I will continue to recommend MTS based on my own experiences and the unflawed track record with the clients I've already sent to MTS. Until Shaw puts out something in the same price range with the same service and speed, MTS is the only one.
Your email read like the old Ford vs Mopar pissing matches of 40 years ago..... :P
-----Original Message----- From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Trevor Cordes Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:14 PM To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Shaw Port 25
On 3 Jun, Raymond J. Henry wrote:
Last I checked, static IP addresses drove the price of Shaw's service up over MTS's (MTS supplies 2 statics with their business accounts)... Is anyone seeing a benefit of Shaw over MTS?
Are you kidding? MTS sucks big time. Shaw Extreme clobbers MTS on download speed, and more importantly upload speed. Upload is at least 4-8X faster with Shaw Extreme. Latency is miniscule Extreme-to-Extreme (20-40ms). MTS can barely get under 100ms on a good day. MTS is unreliable, disconnects you regularly, and requires crappy PPPoE with crappy authentication which always causes problems (not like Shaw's plug-n-go) especially when MTS decides to unilaterally change your user id suffix without telling you, which has happened to my customers at least 3 times. And the icing: they block *incoming* port 25, which has zero anti-spam benefit.
I could go on, but you get the point. And I'm speaking from direct experience because at least 3 of my customers are still on MTS because their buildings are not wired for Shaw.
_______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable