[ale] [OT] Roadrunner?

[Matt Gilbert]

Thanks, all! Very valuable information!

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Bob Evans <bobevans19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matt
>
> I had good luck with RoadRunner in the Charlotte area. Compared to my
> recent experience with Media Com in Albany, GA, they were the "dream team".
> My Internet went out a week ago Monday, and the repair person showed up
> yesterday... With usual "be there between 8AM and 5 PM..." cable guy
> schedule.
>
> This might be a long year...
>
> -be
>
>
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Matt Gilbert wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>> I've been a bit of a lurker for a while now, and I have an OT question you
>> all would most likely know something about.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with Roadrunner ISP? I had the impression that
>> it was basically a quasi-high speed variation on dial up, leveraging
>> server-side caching and compression for the most part, but I can't find
>> anything to confirm this. It's apparently a cable ISP like any other (albeit
>> owned by AOL-Time Warner). Is there any reason I should avoid them like the
>> plague, the way I would anything else with the letters A, O, and L, in it?
>>
>> My real question is, if one were stuck in the woods for a while with
>> Roadrunner, could one function?
>>
>> Matt
>>
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