switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?

[JD Runyan]

You are not going to do nuch better on hops, but you will on speed.  I
was an Enhanced DSL customer, and I got so POd that I won't even use
SWBell for my home phone(yea I know they still handle delivery, but my
check doesn't have thier name on it.  At least I can claim the moral
victory)  Bell still owes me $1100 That I have never seen over the deal.

I have a much better experience on all levels with road runner than with
Bell.

On Wed, Oct ,  at 01:15:46PM -0500, 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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