I might be wrong, but from what I understand, Everest guarantees a minimum
download speed, depending on the service you order.  With RR and Comcast,
you get what you get and they don't care if you throw a fit!

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Duane Attaway
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:09 PM
> To: Mark Hutchings
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Woohoo! Everest is laying cable down the street!
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> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Mark Hutchings wrote:
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> > Bye bye Road Runner!
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> > Has anyone had any problems with them?  Everyone I know loves them.
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> I had a big problem with Road Runner during the ice storm when the tree in
> my back yard took all the wires behind my house to the ground.
> That was a
> long week without electricity and cable.
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> Never had any other interruption in service or a slowdown since I
> had it.
> Ping times to ftp.ibiblio.org average about 70ms.  Never misses a beat.
> I can download a few iso's in about 70 minutes.
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> Some people whine about the news server being slow.  Latency for news
> retrival has been faster than a blink of an eye for me.  Not bad by my
> standards.  Article propagation time is minimal.
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> Competition to Road Runner?  I'd be impressed.
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