Comcast has been doing the same thing. Commericial service has been
restricted with the use of a Cayman router that they then control bandwidth
settings with. Comcast residential, while they say they support standard
Docsis Cable Modems, well, getting one to work is just about impossible.
And Routers, ha, good luck. They won't offer any support for configuring a
home network or anything beyond what the network settings should be.
I just got DirectTV DSL that provides a public IP address as part of its
service. $50.00 a month and the ability to host my own website. They will
also allow you one DNS Entry for your site. More info: www.directtvdsl.com
You don't have to be Direct TV Customer either.
David Roth
Sarasota
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bpreece" <bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Bandwidth hogs, pay up!
> Right now Time Warner Road Runner is not full speed and as for their
Prices
> they just raised them about 5 months ago.
> If Time Warner was giving you full bandwidth with Road Runner you would
> recieve 10 - 15mb full tilt. Right now best you will get
> is 756 k down and 256k up. Hey look Dsl but Cable is suppose to be faster
> then DSL oh wait they are capping the modems.
>
> They are over sold the service and now with everyone setting up home
> networks with the little Link sys routers it yet kills more bandwidth.
> Yes the bandwidth is going away. How ever if they gave full speed it would
> not be that noticeable. They are trying to blame the customer for their
poor
> service. Also they do not support Standard DOCSIS Cable modems you can buy
> at Best Buys or Staples or Office MAX why do you think this is? I will
tell
> you because buy using proprietary modems they can cap your speed! If you
> used your own it would not be capped.
> Also anyone thinking you can software uncap it wrong it is set from the
> switch to your modem when ever you first connect to the net.
> If they would support DOCSIS then let you use your own modem it would
reduce
> their cost for Equipment maintenance. Thus making it cheaper.
> How ever they say if then they did this that when a storm hits if
Lightning
> hits your modem then you would be sol other wise gee they really care?
NOT!
> Also I wonder why the stores still stock these Modems considering you can
> not use them!!!!!!!!! Every model that the local Brandon Best Buys ,
Staples
> and Office max Sells has at least one of the 3 to 6 different brands
> returned! They are useless and these stores do not know why. Perhaps if
> they chain stores would group together they could raise enough stink so
they
> could sell products the consumer can use.
>
> I also remember almost 3 years ago when I first got Road Runner it would
fly
> me and my friends use to have a network setup using it to talk to 3 boxes
in
> Different parts in Tampa they stopped that ability they stopped game
servers
> they stopped ftp's. They also then started to cut the bandwidth.
>
> To test your speed you go to the URL called speed only. This is a Bs test
it
> is on their side of the network and only their customers can use it.
> There is other sites that my friends whom use Dsl can pound faster then I
> can. This is things that I think TW should fix.
>
> If Road Runner truly has to have a fiber optic serviceable area to be
> available in then why should there be a band width issue? Any one know how
> fast data can go over fiber optics? How ever I bet if you test someone's
> bandwidth that has AOL's Cable they will smoke OLE Road Runner why you ask
> because AOL own Time Warner they do not Own Road Runner so they say. So
they
> want to make you switch.
>
> Also Earthlink can not honor my credits through their Cable service cause
> they have problems with Time Warner Holding the service of Cable and
> Billing. So I am switching to DSL. Raise rates what a bunch of thieves.
>
> Also for more good reading if you have road runner check out these
> newsgroups.
>
> alt.online-services.roadrunner
> roadrunner.tampabay.comments
> roadrunner.tampabay.discussion
>
> Read up and enjoy.
> B.Preece
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
> To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Bandwidth hogs, pay up!
>
>
> >On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:11, Paul Braman wrote:
> >>
> >> Figured y'all would be interested in the "official" response I got from
> >> Time Warner today concerning the Slashdot story linked to below.
> >
> >Funny, the people I know at Time Warner in Brandon say this was actually
> >announced internally the day before the Slashdot post. There is no
> >internal talk of rates or caps yet, to their knowledge.
> >
> >- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com>
> >http://ian.blenke.com
> >
> >
>
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