New terms and conditions for the sympaticodial-up service

[Jim Mantle]

New Service Agreement posted in sympatico.announce.

Sounds like "caching" is here to stay - it's in the Service Agreement at
two separate spots.

And I'm surprised to read that they don't guarantee maximum speeds. That
contract clause would probably be a lot more accurate if they stated
that they didn't guarantee *minimum* speeds.

assis...@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> The terms and conditions for the Bell Sympatico™ Internet Service have
> been updated. This will be included in the Bell Sympatico Internet
> Service kits and will be posted on the Internet Service Web Brochure
> as of November 1st. Here's the new Terms and Conditions:
>
> Bell Sympatico Internet Service Agreement
>
> READ CAREFULLY. THIS AGREEMENT IMPOSES OBLIGATIONS
> UPON YOU.

[snip]

> 9. Performance Levels. Speed is a function of the bottlenecks
> experienced upon the wider network architecture of the Internet
> itself. As such Your Service Provider does not guarantee the maximum
> Service performance (throughput speeds) levels but will make every
> reasonable effort to ensure the highest possible quality of service is
> always delivered. You understand that any content that you may access
> through the Service may be subject to "caching" at intermediate
> locations on the Internet.

[Len]

Now we know why the system i soooooo slow, when i was on cable I was
always told to use the proxy they had set up whenever I called tech
support and I always told them it was to slow, so I would start IE and
download netscape from the gogeco twocows server, then turn on the proxy
and do the same thing and it took at least twice as long to do, whatever
they told me to try with the proxy took a certain time then I would turn
off the proxy and do it again in half the time, always confused the hell
outa the techs as they where always being told it was faster, even had a
couple send me email that when they went home and turned it off their
performance was so much faster that they couldn't figure out why cogeco
even bothered setting one up.

Len

REMOVE the NOCRAP in my address to reply.

[robbi...@my-deja.com]

I did similar tests, and got similar results to yours. I have never
seen a quick Proxy server in practice. Baffling

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