switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?

[Gerald Combs]

I've been pretty happy with my RR connection (midtown KC).  I get about
1.9 Mbps consistently, and have had very few outages.  I've heard that
their mail servers leave a lot to be desired, but I have my own mail
server.  Here's a traceroute from my box at home:

oof:/home/gerald> traceroute -n lcs.mit.edu
traceroute to lcs.mit.edu (18.26.0.36), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.61.80.1  9.669 ms  9.110 ms  8.839 ms
 2  24.94.161.65  11.602 ms  8.445 ms  9.323 ms
 3  24.94.161.38  9.086 ms  8.475 ms  9.211 ms
 4  24.94.164.3  9.460 ms  9.061 ms  12.082 ms
 5  24.94.160.186  17.417 ms  11.140 ms  10.174 ms
 6  208.172.131.149  20.032 ms  21.332 ms  39.444 ms
 7  208.172.131.210  21.222 ms  20.822 ms  25.912 ms
 8  4.24.8.197  21.061 ms  24.218 ms  22.047 ms
 9  4.24.10.113  98.458 ms  22.089 ms  119.781 ms
10  4.24.10.214  61.616 ms  56.149 ms  55.935 ms
11  4.24.10.153  55.634 ms  58.126 ms  56.705 ms
12  4.24.10.181  50.224 ms  49.515 ms  46.498 ms
13  4.24.10.178  49.057 ms  49.704 ms  46.775 ms
14  4.24.6.49  53.219 ms  53.327 ms  54.781 ms
15  4.24.10.217  53.977 ms  53.153 ms  53.451 ms
16  4.0.6.245  53.821 ms  55.776 ms  53.970 ms
17  4.0.5.17  54.385 ms  54.441 ms  53.911 ms
18  4.1.80.5  54.612 ms  53.329 ms  54.378 ms
19  4.1.80.10  56.830 ms  57.183 ms  58.251 ms
20  18.168.0.14  57.552 ms  60.312 ms  59.613 ms
21  18.201.1.3  60.202 ms  62.366 ms  58.182 ms
22  18.24.10.1  62.141 ms  63.295 ms  59.143 ms
23  18.26.0.36  61.967 ms  61.885 ms  59.353 ms

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Dan Connolly wrote:

> I've been a swbell DSL customer since ~Apr 2000.
> 
> I've had this roadrunner offer on my bulletin-board
> for a month or so now. It just expired, but I wonder...
> anybody think it's worth switching?
> 
> I wasn't very happy with swbell DSL at the beginning:
> I reported problems in their DNS and POP services... they had
> a nice support web site that promised 24hr response time...
> but I got no response. I run my own caching DNS now,
> and I don't rely on their POP service, but I never
> got a satisfactory answer about the outage.
> 
> But overall, uptime has been good... just a few
> hours down-time here and there over the last year
> and a half or so.
> 
> Speed is so-so... bandwidth is decent, but
> latency is not so good... when I was in Austin,
> rr connected me to lcs.mit.edu (my employer)
> thru just a few hops. I'm 25 hops away now:
> 
> # traceroute -n www.w3.org
> traceroute: Warning: www.w3.org has multiple addresses; using 18.29.1.34
> traceroute to www.w3.org (18.29.1.34), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  192.168.2.1  2.059 ms  1.806 ms  1.810 ms
>  2  208.190.203.254  18.361 ms  19.656 ms  16.806 ms
>  3  151.164.8.2  19.878 ms  20.290 ms  19.276 ms
> ...
> 23  18.201.1.3  68.438 ms  68.637 ms  66.431 ms
> 24  18.24.10.1  79.552 ms  70.355 ms  69.463 ms
> 25  18.29.1.34  69.185 ms  68.862 ms  68.949 ms
> 
> 
> Any rr customers around... would you do a traceroute
> to 18.29.1.34 and let me know what it looks like?
> 
> I think I pay ~$35/month to swbell for DSL+internet service.
> 
> What do you think... should I switch to roadrunner?
> 
> -- 
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
> 
> 
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