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Anyone switched from Road Runner to Earthlink cable?

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Mike Daniel

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Nov 30, 2002, 2:25:41 AM11/30/02
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I have Time Warner Road Runner in SoCal and am thinking of switching to
Earthlink cable? Anyone done it? Did they leave you with no broadband
for a while or was the switch instant and transparent (other than having
to change your mail and news server names)?

Mike

Don Wiss

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Nov 30, 2002, 4:03:30 PM11/30/02
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On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Mike Daniel <invalid....@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have Time Warner Road Runner in SoCal and am thinking of switching to
>Earthlink cable? Anyone done it?

I've done it. I save $18 a month! This as RR charges a $15 premium to those
with no cable TV--Earthlink doesn't; plus Earthlink is $3 cheaper.

>Did they leave you with no broadband
>for a while or was the switch instant and transparent (other than having
>to change your mail and news server names)?

All you have to do is to power down and restart up. It then finds an
Earthlink IP number. Since I never used the RR popserver (nor the Earthlink
one) I only had to change the SMTP address. And I found RR's news server to
be a bit pathetic, so I never used that either.

Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

J762538

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Dec 1, 2002, 7:18:19 PM12/1/02
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I switched to save the money. (Time-Warner+AOL=cost more?! and I pay AOL for
BYOA!) The tech took 5 min to switch.

Rhett Butler

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Dec 3, 2002, 3:45:33 PM12/3/02
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I have always found RR's performance to be exceptional, especially
for large downloads like Redhat. Does Earthlink offer equal performance?

One advantage that Earthlink has AFAIK is they use a much stronger
antispam tool (Brightmail) then RR which is pretty valuable.

Robert Lee

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Dec 3, 2002, 4:08:42 PM12/3/02
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Don Wiss wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Mike Daniel <invalid....@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I have Time Warner Road Runner in SoCal and am thinking of switching to
>>Earthlink cable? Anyone done it?
>
>
> I've done it. I save $18 a month! This as RR charges a $15 premium to those
> with no cable TV--Earthlink doesn't; plus Earthlink is $3 cheaper.
>

Road Runner is 44.95 here in SoCal whule Earthlink is listed at 41.95.
I do not subscribe to regular cable tv and I do get the 44.95 price.
Were you being charged $60 for service or am I missing something?

Don Wiss

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Dec 4, 2002, 10:58:15 AM12/4/02
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On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:08:42 -0800, Robert Lee <rlee> wrote:

>Road Runner is 44.95 here in SoCal whule Earthlink is listed at 41.95.
>I do not subscribe to regular cable tv and I do get the 44.95 price.
>Were you being charged $60 for service or am I missing something?

In NYC, if one does not have cable TV RoadRunner charges $59.95.

Don Wiss

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Dec 4, 2002, 11:03:36 AM12/4/02
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On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:45:33 -0800, Rhett Butler <nos...@spam.com> wrote:

>I have always found RR's performance to be exceptional, especially
>for large downloads like Redhat. Does Earthlink offer equal performance?

Since it is the same cable network, upload and download speeds are the
same. The differences are in the POP, SMTP, and news servers.

I doubt spam.com is your domain name, as it is registered to Hormel Foods.
It is considered tacky to use someone else's valid domain name, as your
using it now means that they have to use their computer resources to bounce
spam forever.

Mike Daniel

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Dec 5, 2002, 11:28:47 AM12/5/02
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In article <3ded1814$1...@usenet.ugs.com>, nos...@spam.com says...

I'm switching to save $12/mo because EL included free dialup so I can
drop a dialup account I'm paying for. I've tested EL cable at other
people's houses and gotten the same speed as RR on sites like
dslreports.com.

When I called EL to order the service, they said they have to sent a
tech out to install software. I told them that I already have the cable
modem and since there's no software required to access EL cable, the
tech wouldn't be touching my PC. They're sending one out anyway.
Probably just to phone in my cable modem's mac address. Idiots.

Mike


Rhett Butler

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Dec 5, 2002, 7:32:03 PM12/5/02
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Don Wiss wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:45:33 -0800, Rhett Butler <nos...@spam.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I have always found RR's performance to be exceptional, especially
>>for large downloads like Redhat. Does Earthlink offer equal performance?
>
>
> Since it is the same cable network, upload and download speeds are the
> same. The differences are in the POP, SMTP, and news servers.
>

I was thinking of the DSL model in which the local telco provides the
connection from your home to a central cloud where various ISP's hook in
to service their customers. The ISP actually provides the internet
bandwidth, not the telco.

Is cable different?

> I doubt spam.com is your domain name, as it is registered to Hormel Foods.
> It is considered tacky to use someone else's valid domain name, as your
> using it now means that they have to use their computer resources to bounce
> spam forever.
>
> Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

I stand corrected. :-)

bbunny

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Dec 10, 2002, 11:23:19 PM12/10/02
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"Don Wiss" <donwiss@no_spam.com> wrote in message news:8h9suu8aus0rbma6k...@4ax.com...

Some people should not be allowed on the net. They think that spam
and no spam works. The bots just go around this kind of thing.

--
good luck
bbunny

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