Re: Re[2]: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-25 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 01:37, Warren Togami wrote: > Note that my roadrunner cable modem has been great over the years. The > first year was terrible with weeks of downtime because of poor wiring in > my area, but after that was overhauled I've had very few problems. I > used to get as much as 700

Re: Re[2]: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-24 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 14:08, Virgil wrote: > Are you talking about Lavanet's frame relay services? Maybe if you want more > you can boost it up to more than 5gb a month? I don't speak for lavanet but > I know they are a little bit more flexible in this area and provide you with > good service compa

Re: Re[2]: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Virgil
Are you talking about Lavanet's frame relay services? Maybe if you want more you can boost it up to more than 5gb a month? I don't speak for lavanet but I know they are a little bit more flexible in this area and provide you with good service compared to the others. Virgil > LavaNet also gives y

Re[2]: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread stimmy
LavaNet also gives you a 5gb of bandwidth per month. I would use that in a week. Something I just realized is that Oceanic offers static IPs, and at prices that compete the Flex, save that they only begin offering 768k upload speeds at $180 / month, which is nearly twice Flex. Oh well, I've been w

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:47:06AM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: > If you really need good speeds and DSL is the right price you > might want to consider an ISP service such as Century Computers > that peers with HIX, Time Warner etc.. they have a list. To clarify, the HIX is the Hawaii Internet E

RE: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Richard Steele
Hoang Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:41:26AM -1000, Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From my research and my experience. DSL is slower, but has a > consistent download/

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
Randall Oshita wrote: If you really need good speeds and DSL is the right price you might want to consider an ISP service such as Century Computers that peers with HIX, Time Warner etc.. they have a list. If your upper is also on Century they can peer you privately so your connection does not ev

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote: ... The more traffic over a circuit, the more latency is incured. If you measure too often, you cause more latency for yourself and others. Imagine if everyone decided to hit Google every 30 seconds. Google might have enough bandwidth to sustain the impact, but networks on th

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:41:26AM -1000, Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my research and my experience. DSL is slower, but has a consistent download/upload time. Road Runner is faster on the download, but it has lag which can be horrible is your gaming

RE: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Randall Oshita
>>I'm actually doing this very thing, right now. We currently have >>RoadRunner, and are switching to a 768/768k plan for DSL, with one >>static IP. It's really the static IP that sold me, though, as >>RoadRunner doesn't offer that, to the best of my knowledge. >> Dude with the RR business class,

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:48:12AM -1000, Chris Stark wrote: > Maybe try NetSaint (now called Nagios) for network uptime > monitoring. It can be a little tricky to set up, but it can > probably do anything you need it to. Has Nagios improve its trending? Nagios out of the box is/was best at monito

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
"John S. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited I'm actually doing this very thing, right now. We currently have RoadRunner, and are switching to a 768/768k plan for DSL, with one static IP. It's really the static IP that s

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:41:26AM -1000, Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From my research and my experience. DSL is slower, but has a > consistent download/upload time. Road Runner is faster on the > download, but it has lag which can be horrible is your gaming > or doing realt

RE: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Jaymes Schooler
stimmy Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:19 AM To: John S. Johnson Subject: Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited I'm actually doing this very thing, right now. We currently have RoadRunner, and are switching to a 768/768k plan for DSL, with one static IP. It's really the static IP th

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread stimmy
I'm actually doing this very thing, right now. We currently have RoadRunner, and are switching to a 768/768k plan for DSL, with one static IP. It's really the static IP that sold me, though, as RoadRunner doesn't offer that, to the best of my knowledge. I do think that we will be sacrificing downl

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Ho'ala Greevy
> There are also some free programs that can help tweak your connection, > which I've tried with no real gains. squid's free :] -ho'ala

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Chris Stark
John S. Johnson wrote: ...I was wondering if there were any nifty network tools available to measure connection downtime and connection speed. I have heard of connection speed analyzers before, but never anything that would check connection downtime. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank

Re: [luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 04/23/2003 10:39:15 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:[luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited I have a question that, although not Linux-specific, is on

[luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

2003-04-23 Thread John S. Johnson
I have a question that, although not Linux-specific, is one that generated a lot of discussion in this forum before. I have been a faithful user of Oceanic Road Runner since the beginning. In the old days you had to sign up for basic cable and road runner together for a total of about $50 to $60