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In article <4b2g7f$ehp@aladdin.iii.org.tw>,
CyberBOB <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:
>In article <4aut6o$hhk@doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca>, doctor@nl2k.edmonton.AB.ca 
>says...
>>
>>Big deal, you guys are 14 to 15 hops off the main Canadian backbone.
>>
>>Not good for a 'local' InterNet Service Provider.
>
>Anyone who knows about the Internet in North America knows that CANET (what you
>refer to as the Candian Backbone) is nearly irrelavant. It is slow and so 
>expensive that no ISP that wants to make money would use it. The only place 
>where CANEt gets used is places like Edmonton that are Small Internet Markets. 
>A large like market Calgary (3 times the size of Edmonton in terms of paid 
>accounts the only real yard stick) uses American Backbones such as ANS, 
>SPRINTNET, MCI, and UUNET almost exclusively. ANSnet that AGt uses is known for 
>provding one of the fastest Backbones in the US. Being 14 ot 15 hops of the 
>Canadian Backbone and on the US backbone is major advantage. Only someone who 
>wants a slow connection would use an ISP on the Canadian Backbone. Don't expect 
>this change any time soon, not until government gets their fingers out of the 
>works.
>

Your information is out of date.  I * InterNet has for the most part bought
out the majority of the CA*Net to T3 lines, and I as a Canadian and a 
techie favour this, esp. when I * is using the same partners.

In Calgary, chack CadVision.

Saying CA*Net is irrelevant is just as good as saying 
Canada never had any InterNet from 1990 to 1993.

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