Road Runner News

[Joshua Bergland]

My question is this - With Road Runner I get the hardware and service 
for $39.95 ... And I am extremely happy with the service (except for the 
DNS issue discussed earlier), and the fact that I pay this and my cable 
bill all at the same time...

How does a third party ISP provide their service on this network? It has 
to all go through the same hardware at the CO, so like DSL, do I still 
pay RoadRunner for the connection and hardware, and just pay Earthlink 
seperately for the ISP services?

Josh Bergland

Charles K. Lee II wrote:

>I'm sure some of you all will be interested in this.  Especially in light of
>the ISP thread I just got a chance to look over.
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>I work for Road Runner and coming November 15 there's going to be some
>changes.  Basically, on that date we're opening up the cable network to
>multiple ISPs.  Which for customers means more choice, more options and
>lower prices.
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>Obviously, the network and cable lines and such is all maintained by us, but
>you get to choose which ISP you are getting service from.  At first, the
>options will be Road Runner, Earthlink or AOL. I know for all you AOL is
>out of the qeustion :).  However, Earthlink is a nice option because you get
>a lower price (they're offering the service at the $40 range).  In
>additions, you also get access to their dial-up services.  Road Runner is 
>also going to start providing their dial-in access then (which answers 
>somebodies question from that ISP thread, I believe).  However, with 
>Earthlink you only get 1 IP, as opposed to Road Runner when you can get 
>up to 4 (for no extra cost, which is cool because I think we're the only 
>Road Runner affiliate left that doesn't charge more for each additional IP).
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>Regarding the cable modem service in general, I've been happy with the
>service.  I've had both cable and DSL, so I'm speaking from experience on
>both sides of the fence.  With the Road Runner service, it's been
>consistently faster and more reliable than DSL.  And I also don't have to
>deal with the PPPoE nonsense.  If you have the option between DSL and 
>cable, I would have to wholeheartedly recommend cable.  Unless maybe if
>you're exceptionally close to a DSL office.  When I had DSL, I was just far
>enough from the local office that they had to cap my downstream bandwidth
>at 700'ish k/sec, which is a far cry from the 2 m/sec service I get from
>Road Runner.
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>Anyway, if you all have questions, I'll be happy to answer whatever I can.
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>- chuckx | Charles K. Lee II -
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