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Pat Drummond (xx995@freenet.carleton.ca) writes:
> People in the Ottawa area should check out NCF's (The National Capital
> FreeNet) new expanded Internet services.  Members now have full
> Internet service on all dial-up lines with access to Web sites,
> graphics, sound, movies, binary files, FTP, TELNET, e-commerce and
> Internet banking, Internet e-mail and news, as well as all the
> community information and member services it's always had.

You mean FEEnet. Now with mandatory donations required, NCF has decided
to become a low quality ISP. Rather than following the original mandate!
NCF doesn't have the high speed service to support all they envision.
Based on NCF's own figures this will make them an ISP with a user:modem
ratio of 114:1 ...
 
> All you need to connect is a computer with a modem or access to one of
> line (14.4/28.8) is 520-1135, high speed access (33.6) is on 520-9013,
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> NCF is one of the largest, second-oldest, and best (voted Best
> Community Network) community networks in Canada.  It has survived many
> changes and financial crises since it began almost 6 years ago.  The
> members and local corporate supporters have always seen it through -
> they are the main source of money, equipment, software and volunteers
> for NCF.  

This largest FreeNet statement has been based on the inflated 66,213
userids, not on the claimed 20,970 active accounts. What are the real
numbers versus TorFree.net, and the orhe others? It's hard to be real
proud of a loss rate of over 68% of your users...

> of course, e-mail.
> 
> Newsweek International has included us in their monthly "Who's Doing
> It Right" section in December at http://www.Newsweek-int.com

What really does Newsweek know about the Internet??? Or Community networks?

Darrell Larose | http://www.newforce.ca/darrell | darrell@.newforce.ca

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