Time Warner RoadRunner Cable Internet

[fos]

I am now accessing the internet via a Time Warner / RoadRunner cable service. It is about twice as fast as Verizon DSL on downloads and noticeably faster during regular web surfing. If you consider that Verizon was off line a significant amount of time there is no comparison between the two.

I called tech support to obtain my email ID and password. They answered promptly and provided the information quickly. (Another big improvement over Verizon!)

My dynamic IP address has remained the same since it was installed Thursday afternoon. I may experiment with an in house web server and a dynamic domain name service.

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[Leon]

What did it take to get Road Runner set up? I am assuming you are using it with Linux.

I get a call from Time Warner every week trying to sell me Road Runner. Every time I ask to talk to a tech rep who can answer Linux installation questions, I'm told I'll get a call back. I never do.

I am still on dial-up and am shopping around for a broad band service. I am still too far from a DSL node, so RR is about the only upgrade available to me.

NB if any list member is using RR with Libranet 2.x or 3 I'd appreciate knowing how you set up RR on your system.

[fos]

Hi Leon,

Setting up RoadRunner on Libranet should not be a problem at all. I used Verizon DSL with LN 3.0 and 2.8 prior to that. Once the modem has been initialized and recognized by the ISP company, it should work perfectly.

It is easiest for the installation technicians to use Windows for the initial service install since that is what they are trained with. Once the modem's internal serial number has been setup, maintenance should not be a problem.

At one point after a modem failure with Verizon, their techs could not get the new one initialized with my Windows computer and wanted to send another replacement modem. I went through the "new ISP connection" selection under the LN/KDE internet menu and had it running in minutes.

You just need to have TCP/IP service enabled with RoadRunner. I'm getting about 600 kb/s download speeds consistently with RR. I was only getting 250 - 350 kb/s with Verizon.

RoadRunner does have a 30 day money back guarantee if you aren't satisfied.

fos....

PS. I do not have cable TV with Time-Warner. Only Cable Internet RoadRunner. The package costs $29.95 per month for the first six months and $49.95 per month thereafter. It would be $10 per month cheaper if it were combined with cable TV.

[Red*Fox]

i betcha 5$ youll be satisfied ..back at the apartments it dropped almost 20 msecs off a ping to a dallas server. it shouldnt be any different than setting up dsl on a linux server since roadrunner still uses tcp/ip with lan or your option of usb conenction..

ever since ive been living out of the apartments i had sprint witch changed to embarq...they make me mildy angry because they block some of my required ports for a server. but they do have static ip :/

[fos]

Hi Red,

How much do they want for a static IP?

fos....

[danieldk]

PS. I do not have cable TV with Time-Warner. Only Cable Internet RoadRunner. The package costs $29.95 per month for the first six months and $49.95 per month thereafter. It would be $10 per month cheaper if it were compined with cable TV.

Wow :smiley5:. It's quite terrible what they dare to ask in some countries. I pay about 20 Euro per month for a 20 MBit downstream DSL connection without any limits. AFAIR the external IP adress has never changed either (in fact, the router that they provide has all kind of stuff to make it easy to serve up stuff from home, including automatical maintainance of DynDNS accounts, and port forwarding). It always amazes me how hard some companies are trying to make the customer unhappy. I heard that in Belgium many ISPs have 10GB/month limits. Quite strange. The only real explanation that I can think of is price and/or feature fixation between companies.

Maybe things are different in the US because of larger distances, etc.

[fos]

// Different in US because of larger distances....


More likely they want to make more money. :smiley13:


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[Red*Fox]

THAT WOULD BE NICE to get 20 mbits downstream Lucky :p i only get 1.5 about nothing.... :(

wahts the upstream?

[danieldk]

Upstream is 1 MBit (this is ADSL). Fair enough to shuffle some bits with Bittorrent, or to serve up web pages.