Re: [TCLUG:18657] RoadRunner service?

[Lord Xoi <xoi@mn.mediaone.net>]

on 6/7/00 8:38 PM, Jon Schewe at jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net wrote:

> 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.

Well, I haven't noticed a downtime in quite awhile, can't remember when the
last one was, but I am also only online in the mornings and evenings on
weekdays.  The bandwidth is decent, I get near 100k a sec most times,
sometimes more, never higher than 150k that I've seen.