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Dave Howe <howe29@tcd.net> wrote:


>IDT is not the same everyplace.  They make a habit of buying local 
>providers and each local had its own personality long before IDT got 
>there.  Some were good and some were bad.

But IDT seems to be especially interested in cutting deals with mostly
low budget operators.  I don't know if they jumped in bed with someone 
here in Houston or actually put in their own POP. All I know is that
from my perspective IDT's Houston POP appears to be a collection of low
dollar modems on low-dollar CO-Centrex lines out of an aging analog
switch. I know of no one in Houston who has anything positive to say
about the local access. The most accurate description I've heard of it
is that "It sucks."  In my opionion, it certainly does.

>Of course, at 8:00 PM everything is bad.  The net is just overloaded 
>with TV viewers changing pastimes.

Things are only bad on the net at 8 PM when you subscribe to seriously
oversold, low budget schlock systems. Users who actually pay out their
hard-earned money to subscribe to telephone company Busy Signals every
evening between 7 and 10 PM have but themselves to blame. You get what
you pay for.  On the other hand, if you're paying $30 or more a month
and still getting busy signals, it's still your fault for tolerating it.