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[Edward Wesolowski <ids AT idisplay.com>]

>Using RR is a bit like shopping at BestBuy, its great, as long as you 
don't have to talk to anybody.
...really good point.
>And they've definitely been having a bad week.
This is my experience too. I have "Earthlink." It's slightly cheaper than 
RR, I think! But it runs over RR's cable. (As part of the the TW/AOL 
merger, TW had to open up its lines to competing companies.)
Service is generally good. But I've seen problems too this week.
The cable TV service, also, is up and down, too. Made me wonder about 
satellite + DSL, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. The cable aint 
broke, well not too broke, so no sense fixing it, right?
(Does anybod know, does satellite get the "Deep Dish Network"?
Ed W.


At 05:49 PM 1/9/03 -0500, you wrote:
> I'm not sure any one broadband provider in our area could give you truly 
> reliable service.
>
> Using RR is a bit like shopping at BestBuy, its great, as long as you 
> don't have to talk to anybody.  And they've definitely been having a bad 
> week.  I've seen a few multiday issues with mail service, but this is the 
> worst IP connectivity spell I've noticed them having.  It does look like 
> they did some "planned maintennance" last night, so I'm hoping that  will 
> fix thing for now.
>
> RR does have a network status page that at least can confirm when you are 
> seeing system wide, rather than user specific, issues. 
> <http://help.rr.com/asp/networkstatus.asp>
>
> Also, as a stopgap to keep you online during the brownouts, RR has a 
> dialup offering as well.  see: <http://dialaccess.rr.com>  It's free for 
> the next few months.  I've never used it.  Of course there's NetZero, 
> Juno, et.al.
>
> Some network appliances have a failover feature where they'll start using 
> an external modem via a serial port if the WAN connection goes out.  Same 
> applies to multiple WAN ports if you wanted to pay for the appliance plus 
> two broadband accounts.
>
> HTH,
>
> --rt
>
> Craig Duncan wrote:
> > At one point in time I sang their praises, but over the past few months 
> > the service has been appalling. Lots of outages and useless tech support.
>
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