switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?
JD Runyan
Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov
Wed Oct 3 19:30:35 CDT 2001
You are not going to do nuch better on hops, but you will on speed. I
was an Enhanced DSL customer, and I got so POd that I won't even use
SWBell for my home phone(yea I know they still handle delivery, but my
check doesn't have thier name on it. At least I can claim the moral
victory) Bell still owes me $1100 That I have never seen over the deal.
I have a much better experience on all levels with road runner than with
Bell.
On Wed, Oct , at 01:15:46PM -0500, 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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