Bitching (Re: [oclug] Sympatico ADSL and y.k.w.)

[Patrick Smith]

Brad Barnett wrote:
> Charlie Brady <charlieb-oclug at budge.apana.org.au> wrote:
>>>>FWIW, I use istop.com and find their service reliable enough to
>>>>telework. 
> 
> Since you state that you find istop to be reliable, then there are only
> three possible reasons you could believe so.  
> 
> 1) you are incompetent, and are unable to tell when istop is not working
> or / and
> 2) you do not use istop frequently, therefore you do not realise how
> unreliable they are
> or / and
> 3) you have not used istop for long, therefore you do not realise how
> unreliable they are

4) Charlie's definition of "reliable enough to telework" is different 
from yours of "reliable".
5) There is some technical difference in the two connections to Istop, 
such that you see more problems than Charlie does.  E.g. a faulty piece 
of equipment somewhere in your connection.
6) Through some statistical fluke, Charlie has mostly connected when 
there weren't any problems happening.
7) There are patterns in IStop's problems and the ways you and Charlie 
use IStop such that you are more likely than Charlie to encounter these 
problems.

I'm sure others with more imagination than I have could extend this list 
further...

> Since istop _is_ unreliable, one or some of the conditions above must be
> applicable in your particular case.  That is, I don't need to know
> anything about you, other than the fact that you state istop is reliable,
> in order to draw the conclusions above.

If you want to have a conversation above the level of "is not" "is too" 
"is not" "is too", you might perhaps consider the possibility that other 
people have actually had experiences different from yours.

FWIW, I have been mostly (not entirely) satisfied with IStop.