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[Mike Johnson <mike AT enoch.org>]

David Minton [david AT designhammer.com] wrote:
> The only downside I have seen with RoadRunner is the very asymmetrical
> throughput (up to 350KB/sec down but only about 35KB/sec up) and they do not
> permit serving of any kind, even on business class.

Wrong.  That's what Business Class buys you.  With Business Class you
can run all the servers you want, save a few bandwidth hogs such as
IRC, video and audio (just bounce through Live365 if you want to 
stream audio), news, or game servers (actual servers -- hosting for
a few friends is fine).  Basicly, if they see you using a lot of
bandwidth, they'll complain to you.

As for the throughput, that's the same as ADSL and RADSL.  You have
to pay more for SDSL.

> The shortcoming I have not seen is that it is more of a LAN rather than a
> direct connection to the ISP the way DSL is. The bandwidth upstream is
> shared with the other subscribers in the "neighborhood" and you need to be
> more aware of security concerns. In theory (and I guess in practice) the
> more users on your network segment, the lower the available bandwidth. I
> have not seen this yet, since my RoadRunner installer told me that I am the
> only user on my segment (mine is the only house connected to the nice green
> box on the corner).

Yup.  I haven't had problems with this either.  At just about any time,
I can get my full 2mb pipe.  I've yet to suffer any slow downs.  I
-may- be the only one in my neighborhood using RR, though.  Many of
the folk suffer with BellSouth DSL.
 
Mike
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