Re: [TCLUG:18657] RoadRunner service?

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Lord Xoi <xoi@mn.mediaone.net> writes:

> on 6/7/00 8:08 PM, Jon Schewe at jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for what people think of RoadRunner's service?  Currently I have
> > Onvoy IDSL and it's pretty good, but every now and then I have some downtime,
> > like last weekend I was down for 3 days and that really ticked me off.  So I'm
> > wondering of RoadRunner's service is as good or better.  Until now my only
> > high speed option was IDSL, now Time-Warner is offering cable modem service
> > via RoadRunner.
> > 
> > Only thing RoadRunner doesn't provide is a static IP, at least according to
> > the web site.
> > 
> 
> 
> I haven't had any problems with them.  Though I've never used DSL.  I've
> never had a downtime of over a few hours.
> 

How often do you get downtime?  Also is the bandwidth always good?  They're
advertising 384Kbps up and 2Mbps down.  Is this consistent with what you get?
I talked with a guy at work that tried it a while back and said at times it
was slower than his 56K modem.

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