Archive for July, 2010

It was a fun run while it lasted

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

As many of you are aware of, I’m a really devoted customer of Teksavvy, my internet provider.

But now, you can say I “was” one of their customers. I was for almost ten years and it was awesome. They were the first to allow me to have my own servers, no port blocking, decent bandwith and most of all, a 5 IP addresses subnet !

However, in the last years have been having more and more trouble with the Bell infrastructure side of my connection. I’m sure they are somewhat sabotaging reseller accounts so it’s a living hell for customers. Packet Loss, transfer of my connection to far away DSLAM, throttling and most of all lack transparency from the techs and the company itself are just a few reason who pushed me out.

Bell instead of rolling DPI (Deep Packet Inspection, a process to lower p2p speeds), should have upgraded their network for growth.

I switched to Videotron Business service and I can’t wait to see what the service will be.

Je pense que je suis très energivore…

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Ça, c’est le prix d’avoir des serveurs dans la cave. Une thermopompe, un air climatisé en plus, un broyeur et le lave vaisselle à tous les jours au moins.

Bon…