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had roadrunner® service installed today... quickly coming to realization how much time I've wasted here (and there)....


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tsuwm, you lucky dog you. Saw it at work at friend's house up the road a piece. Whiz! Bang! and your connected! Several towns surounding mine have it but it's not available here yet!
Health and luck with it.



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What is roadrunner service? Does it go "Beep-beep"? And is there a problem with Wile E. Coyote?

Beep regards,
WoadWunner


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Try this link wordy one:

http://home.columbus.rr.com/mwbaker/reviews/roadrunner.html

Tsuwm - I wonder if it faster than my ADSL line which is pretty zippy (currently running at 256,000 Kbps transmit and 576,000 kbps receive, although bandwidth shows even higher) - the only limiting factor seems to be the speed of my typos (oops!) I don't think that anything similar is available her yet, it would be very useful as ADSL and ISDN depend on some formula based on distance from the telephone exchange.


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Roadrunner (©Time-Warner Empire) hooks you to the internet via your cable TV line. If yours is one of the few cable "services" in the U.S. not owned by Time-Warner, it probably still offers the same deal but under a different name.


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Tsuwm - I wonder if it faster than my ADSL line which is pretty zippy (currently running at 256,000 Kbps transmit and 576,000 kbps receive, although bandwidth shows even higher) - the only limiting factor seems to be the speed of my typos (oops!) I don't think that anything similar is available her yet, it would be very useful as ADSL and ISDN depend on some formula based on distance from the telephone exchange.

Sometimes one forgets how privileged one is. My puter runs off an E10 connection from work (slightly faster than the US T10 equivalent). With all this speed and connectivity I seldom ponder that most of the forum members are connecting via home modems and are, thus, at the mercy of their ISPs. Bandwidth has never been a problem for me.


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In terms of theoretical peak
raw performance, cable
modem generally wins the
speed battle over DSL.
Cable technology can, in
theory, achieve networking
speeds of approximately 30
Mbps (using a 100 Mbps
network interface card),
whereas most forms of DSL
cannot reach 10 Mbps.
(VDSL is one variant of DSL
that matches cable's
performance, but it is not
generally available.)

In practice, though, the
speed advantage of cable
over DSL is much lower than
might first be apparent.
Both cable modem and DSL performance vary from
one minute to the next depending on the pattern of
use and traffic congestion on the Internet. This
means that both services will rarely -- if ever --
reach peak performance.

Furthermore, cable modem technology delivers
shared bandwidth within the local neighborhood
while DSL delivers dedicated local bandwidth. With
cable, performance at any given time depends on
how many cable subscribers in the neighborhood are
currently actively using the network as well as load
on the Internet generally. This "double whammy"
suggests that cable modem will perform relatively
slower during peak usage periods.
http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa111200b.htm

I'll post some personal numbers when I've had a chance to run some tests.



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