Road Runner Nonsense

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 11:57:44 CST 2008


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Julie <betelgeuse67stang at yahoo.com> wrote:
> To Hal and any others who haven't been able to replicate this:
>
> I've had RR service to my home ever since they came to KC and I couldn't
> replicate "it" either until I had Road Runner reset my modem (a Toshiba
> PCX2600 that I've had for just about four years now). I'd been having
> trouble with getting onto and navigating the Net. So I called RR to have
> them 'ping' my modem to see what the problem was (I've gone through about
> four modems during my time with RR). They reset it, told me I now have four
> IPs instead of one...for the exact same price; we'll see when I get my next
> bill... and that it works fine now, which it does.

More accurately, they will only allow you 4 IPs, ie. 4 devices with
their own public IP address... it's more of a restriction than a favor
they are doing you. But it is better than only having 1 IP i guess.

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