Keep in mind that they have a small, probably underutilized network up there, too. RR is in a situation where its subscriber base has grown very quickly, requiring a great deal of infrastructure changes to keep up. Frankly, small outfits can easily outstrip larger ones, if only for the reason that they probably also don't have the concentration of heavy users that the Triangle does (work from home types, VPN requirements, bittorrent downloaders, web and mail servers on home networks, multi-system home networks, etc). Thus, they have that kind of bandwidth to spread around. It's easy to keep their routers distributed evenly, especially if they can afford to purchase hardware faster than the subscriber base is growing. Down here in the Triangle, it ain't that easy. Trust me, I've seen it from the inside.
-Ben Pitzer On 1/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Man are we getting screwed. RoadRunner charges as much for their 8mb/.5mb as these guys do for their 10m/2m. From personal experience, I've never come close to 8mb/.5mb (I average about 50% of this). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Cuthrell Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:17 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Google datacenter in NC On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Neil L. Little wrote: [snip] > Though Lenoir is "un-geeky" it is nice country up there. Actually, you can get CoMPAS Cable modem service down the road in Morgantown. So, before the un-geeky pops up again, their SEVEN tier service goes up to a 10M/2M package [1]. http://www.compascable.net/html/compasinternet.html By comparison, RoadRunner here in uber-geeky RTP tops out at 8M/0.5M service. *yawn* -Jay [1] Disclosure: I work closely with a provider of their infrastructure -- Jay Cuthrell CTO NeoNova Network Services LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcuthrell Plaxo: https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=8590696957 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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