Re: [TCLUG:15736] MediaOne

["Bob Nolte" <bob.nolte@pc4u.com>]

Just a quick note about my Time-Warner RoadRunner. It's a lot faster. Friday
night I DLd
a 312mb zip file from my brother's computer in Seattle using FTP. I was
getting close to
600 kbs. The guys that setup my RR said that Media One is a totally
different system.

Here's a bit from the Time-Warner site on speed.
http://help.rr.com/repository/624/e106_rr_how_fast_is_rr.html
Just how fast is Road Runner?
      A number of factors determine the speed of the data as it goes from
the cable company's servers to the customer's computer. The cable modem
delivers up to 10 Mb/s over the network, but the device with the slowest
throughput along this path determines the effective speed. Typically, this
is the PC bus and/or video display. For example, a top-of-the-line Pentium
will receive data in excess of 4 Mb/s. Road Runner can deliver up to 10 Mb/s
to a computer through the 10base T Ethernet interface.
      The upstream bandwidth (from the PC to the system) is up to 2 mb/s.
Because users require far more bandwidth downstream (reading web pages,
downloading files, etc.) than upstream (largely "mouse clicks" and file
requests), the two directions can differ in bandwidth. Data bandwidth is
shared from the neighborhood node to users in individual homes, so
performance may vary depending on how many customers are actively using the
system at any given time. The system has been designed to offer worst-case
bandwidth exceeding that of ISDN service, and that assumes continuous,
maximal usage by every Road Runner user in a neighborhood simultaneously.

      In addition to speed, Road Runner offers three great advantages over
dialup data access: The connection is available immediately (in contrast to
dialup services that require lengthy initiation routines), it stays live as
long as the customers likes, with no hourly usage fees added to the base
cost, and it does not tie up a phone line.



Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lehman" <jeffclehman@mediaone.net>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:15736] MediaOne


> I just got mediaone roadrunner installed on saturday.  We have about 6
> computers on a personal lan here at home but the guys who came to install
it
> were pretty cool about it.  They didn't ask me to disconnect it or
anything.
> I set up a second nic card on the computer that was going to be connected
to
> the cable modem and they did it from there.  All they did was hook the
modem
> up to the card and call in the modem number and mac address of the nic
card
> the modem was attached to.  Cable service was available about a week ago
> here. I called them last friday and they said a guy could be out here
> wednesday (5 days later), so the wait wasn't long at all, i suppose that
> depends upon where you live though.  The speeds are pretty fast, varying
> between 100 and 170KB/sec.  Uploads go slower from 30-40KB/sec.  I'm
pretty
> satisfied although i've only had it for 2 days now.  Today there was about
a
> 10 minute outage.  And as i look at their website, they've had an outage
> just about every day now for the past week.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Kleist" <dkleist@acm.org>
> To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 4:52 PM
> Subject: RE: [TCLUG:15736] MediaOne
>
>
> > Did they quiz you on the OS for the machine running Roadrunner?  The
> > website suggests that they only install to Windows or Mac, and no NAT
> > allowed, and they charge for multiple machines.  What was the time
between
> > ordering and having RR go live? I thought about the same setup (RR for
dl
> > and surf), but I'm not sure how I'd do it with the firewall/router box
> that
> > would already be set up (I'm still a newbie, and currently too poor to
> > afford more boxes at this time <g>).
> >
> > (8 months?? I'll shut up now.)  Thanks for the info.
> >
> > -------
> > Dave Kleist            | "Adventure is a sign of incompetence"
> > dkleist@acm.org    |                      - Vilhjalmur Stefansson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, April 09, 2000 2:42 PM, Bob Nolte [SMTP:bob.nolte@pc4u.com]
> > wrote:
> > > Be patient. I ordered 144 IDSL from Onvoy/Covad/USWorst on June 17,
> 1999.
> > It
> > > was finally operational on February 17, 2000!!!!.  I live in Eden
> > Prairie,
> > > and had RoadRunner installed in addition to Onvoy last Friday. The
> > > RoadRunner is blazing fast!! BTW I'm using the a Linksys Etherfast
> > Cable/DSL
> > > router running NAT on the RoadRunner connection.
> > > I expect to keep the IDSL to server web and mail and use the RR for dl
> > and
> > > surfing. Onvoy has been fine, once USWorst got the line installed.
> > >
> > > Bob
> >
> >
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