switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Oct 3 18:32:20 CDT 2001
I've been pretty happy with my RR connection (midtown KC). I get about
1.9 Mbps consistently, and have had very few outages. I've heard that
their mail servers leave a lot to be desired, but I have my own mail
server. Here's a traceroute from my box at home:
oof:/home/gerald> traceroute -n lcs.mit.edu
traceroute to lcs.mit.edu (18.26.0.36), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.61.80.1 9.669 ms 9.110 ms 8.839 ms
2 24.94.161.65 11.602 ms 8.445 ms 9.323 ms
3 24.94.161.38 9.086 ms 8.475 ms 9.211 ms
4 24.94.164.3 9.460 ms 9.061 ms 12.082 ms
5 24.94.160.186 17.417 ms 11.140 ms 10.174 ms
6 208.172.131.149 20.032 ms 21.332 ms 39.444 ms
7 208.172.131.210 21.222 ms 20.822 ms 25.912 ms
8 4.24.8.197 21.061 ms 24.218 ms 22.047 ms
9 4.24.10.113 98.458 ms 22.089 ms 119.781 ms
10 4.24.10.214 61.616 ms 56.149 ms 55.935 ms
11 4.24.10.153 55.634 ms 58.126 ms 56.705 ms
12 4.24.10.181 50.224 ms 49.515 ms 46.498 ms
13 4.24.10.178 49.057 ms 49.704 ms 46.775 ms
14 4.24.6.49 53.219 ms 53.327 ms 54.781 ms
15 4.24.10.217 53.977 ms 53.153 ms 53.451 ms
16 4.0.6.245 53.821 ms 55.776 ms 53.970 ms
17 4.0.5.17 54.385 ms 54.441 ms 53.911 ms
18 4.1.80.5 54.612 ms 53.329 ms 54.378 ms
19 4.1.80.10 56.830 ms 57.183 ms 58.251 ms
20 18.168.0.14 57.552 ms 60.312 ms 59.613 ms
21 18.201.1.3 60.202 ms 62.366 ms 58.182 ms
22 18.24.10.1 62.141 ms 63.295 ms 59.143 ms
23 18.26.0.36 61.967 ms 61.885 ms 59.353 ms
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Dan Connolly wrote:
> I've been a swbell DSL customer since ~Apr 2000.
>
> I've had this roadrunner offer on my bulletin-board
> for a month or so now. It just expired, but I wonder...
> anybody think it's worth switching?
>
> I wasn't very happy with swbell DSL at the beginning:
> I reported problems in their DNS and POP services... they had
> a nice support web site that promised 24hr response time...
> but I got no response. I run my own caching DNS now,
> and I don't rely on their POP service, but I never
> got a satisfactory answer about the outage.
>
> But overall, uptime has been good... just a few
> hours down-time here and there over the last year
> and a half or so.
>
> Speed is so-so... bandwidth is decent, but
> latency is not so good... when I was in Austin,
> rr connected me to lcs.mit.edu (my employer)
> thru just a few hops. I'm 25 hops away now:
>
> # traceroute -n www.w3.org
> traceroute: Warning: www.w3.org has multiple addresses; using 18.29.1.34
> traceroute to www.w3.org (18.29.1.34), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
> 1 192.168.2.1 2.059 ms 1.806 ms 1.810 ms
> 2 208.190.203.254 18.361 ms 19.656 ms 16.806 ms
> 3 151.164.8.2 19.878 ms 20.290 ms 19.276 ms
> ...
> 23 18.201.1.3 68.438 ms 68.637 ms 66.431 ms
> 24 18.24.10.1 79.552 ms 70.355 ms 69.463 ms
> 25 18.29.1.34 69.185 ms 68.862 ms 68.949 ms
>
>
> Any rr customers around... would you do a traceroute
> to 18.29.1.34 and let me know what it looks like?
>
> I think I pay ~$35/month to swbell for DSL+internet service.
>
> What do you think... should I switch to roadrunner?
>
> --
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
>
>
>
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