According to the information I've got here, with Earthlinks cable offering you get unlimited dial-up access along with the broadband service for $44.95 per month. Also, for customer sticking with Road Runner, we will start offering dial-up services on November 15 also. Until the end of the year, we will provide unlimited dial-up access. Starting next year, however, customers will get 10 hours of dial-up access and $0.99/hour for each additional hour. - chuckx | Charles K. Lee II - - chuckx@cold-sun.com - - http://www.cold-sun.com - On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:44:12AM -0500, Mike Distefano wrote: > The problem with the Earthlink dial up services with thier high speed > service is that you only get 60 min free. Its $0.10/min after. That can > get expensive if you are on the road, or in my case at a customer site and > can't get out thier firewall. > > Mike Distefano, MJ Technologies, Inc. > mdistefano@mjtek.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles K. Lee II [mailto:chuckx@kc.rr.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 5:22 PM > To: kclug@kclug.org > Subject: Road Runner News > > > I'm sure some of you all will be interested in this. Especially in light of > the ISP thread I just got a chance to look over. > > I work for Road Runner and coming November 15 there's going to be some > changes. Basically, on that date we're opening up the cable network to > multiple ISPs. Which for customers means more choice, more options and > lower prices. > > Obviously, the network and cable lines and such is all maintained by us, but > you get to choose which ISP you are getting service from. At first, the > options will be Road Runner, Earthlink or AOL. I know for all you AOL is > out of the qeustion :). However, Earthlink is a nice option because you get > a lower price (they're offering the service at the $40 range). In > additions, you also get access to their dial-up services. Road Runner is > also going to start providing their dial-in access then (which answers > somebodies question from that ISP thread, I believe). However, with > Earthlink you only get 1 IP, as opposed to Road Runner when you can get > up to 4 (for no extra cost, which is cool because I think we're the only > Road Runner affiliate left that doesn't charge more for each additional IP). > > Regarding the cable modem service in general, I've been happy with the > service. I've had both cable and DSL, so I'm speaking from experience on > both sides of the fence. With the Road Runner service, it's been > consistently faster and more reliable than DSL. And I also don't have to > deal with the PPPoE nonsense. If you have the option between DSL and > cable, I would have to wholeheartedly recommend cable. Unless maybe if > you're exceptionally close to a DSL office. When I had DSL, I was just far > enough from the local office that they had to cap my downstream bandwidth > at 700'ish k/sec, which is a far cry from the 2 m/sec service I get from > Road Runner. > > Anyway, if you all have questions, I'll be happy to answer whatever I can. > > - chuckx | Charles K. Lee II - > - chuckx@cold-sun.com - > - http://www.cold-sun.com - > > > > > > >