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["Craig Duncan" <craigduncan AT nc.rr.com>]

For me, TW business class service has so far been a pleasant experience, and
set up was a snap. The technical support so far has been excellent. During
the thunder storm the other night we lost TW connectivity, I called them
first thing in the morning and within an hour I had the field technician
verifying that my service was restored - try getting your DSL & phone
provider to decide whose problem it is, let alone fix it that quickly. Total
cost for my service is approx $130/month.

If your office has less than 50 machines that need access to the Internet, a
single static IP address and a NAT router, or proxy server is all you will
need. Running multiple web sites on a single server is a snap using virtual
hosts, but if you want multiple boxes running web servers, each one will
need to use a different port (other than 80) which can be mapped on the NAT
router, otherwise you need to purchase additional IP addresses.

Please note that high traffic sites can affect performance, so even though
this type of solution is great for most small business, it may not be for
everyone. Good luck

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Johnson [mailto:mike AT enoch.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:14 AM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: DSL/T1 providers in Raleigh?


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
--
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried --
unknown

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