I'm on AT&T@Home now, but used to be MediaOne. Here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, they still retain their mr.net backbone. Let me tell you all, this is one of the best backbones in the midwest. I have awesome pings to just about anywhere in the 5 states surrounding Minnesota. It makes for some great gaming. I get a 12ms ping out to a server off mr.net, which is almost 20 miles away. I'm sure if you factor in how far the stuff is being routing through, it would end up being more like 50 miles of distance traveled.
I even get a 12ms ping out to a server in Duluth (btw, I'm talking counter-strike
). Downlink cap is at 1.85Mbps, which I don't mind. That's more than enough. I just kind of miss MediaOne (altho, my ips and everything, servers used..etc, all still say mediaone in DNS lookups) as they routed more traffic down mr.net. AT&T Started to route more down their backbone, but mr.net is far better.
As far as AT&T Scalping me, I feel that they are somewhat. I know someone was commenting that they are losing money on their broadband, but I'm already paying $50/month for all the basic cable channels. No premium channels/pay per view channels even! Cable Modem costs $47/month if I remember right, non-cable tv subcribes pay $50/m. Wow, big discount. If only I could get DirecTV or DiSH network... Too many trees in the yard
I even get a 12ms ping out to a server in Duluth (btw, I'm talking counter-strike
). Downlink cap is at 1.85Mbps, which I don't mind. That's more than enough. I just kind of miss MediaOne (altho, my ips and everything, servers used..etc, all still say mediaone in DNS lookups) as they routed more traffic down mr.net. AT&T Started to route more down their backbone, but mr.net is far better.As far as AT&T Scalping me, I feel that they are somewhat. I know someone was commenting that they are losing money on their broadband, but I'm already paying $50/month for all the basic cable channels. No premium channels/pay per view channels even! Cable Modem costs $47/month if I remember right, non-cable tv subcribes pay $50/m. Wow, big discount.
If only I could get DirecTV or DiSH network... Too many trees in the yard 
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