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[David Minton <david AT designhammer.com>]

I stand corrected. The service agreement I was provided with when I was
provided a quote for business RR read:

"In using Road Runner, customers accept these restrictions as well as those
set forth in the Customer Agreement and agree to use the Service only for
lawful purposes and not to use or allow others to use Road Runner...to
connect high-bandwidth server applications, including but not limited to,
video or audio conferencing, multicasting or other media streaming,
third-party news, chat, and/or list servers, or gaming without prior written
approval of Road Runner;"

David

On 7/11/01 10:14 AM, "Mike Johnson" <mike AT enoch.org> wrote:

> 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