So lame......Roadrunner

[helpme]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
I run my own mail server.

I'm sure they can get you for that. That's probably definatly against their TOS?

 

[hollowman]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Bellsouth DSL rocks.A friend of mine has it(I have cable-to far from co)a repairman showed up at his house BEFORE he even called in a problem with it.Thats service.

I am in Raleigh, I had Bellsouth DSL when I was in college. It went down maybe twice in two years. Like I said, we sucked the bandwidth out of it. One of my roommates was a HUGE Frank Zappa fan so he bought separate Newsgroup service(at the time bellsouth newsgroups were terrible, now they are pretty good) and downloaded like 7-8gigs a day a lone in various Frank Zappa albums. He usually got them in a lossless compression format so he did damage very quickly. I just can't believe that 3gigs would be a limit. I could hit that in a normal day surfing without downloading much. If they do it again I will switch eventhough I don't want to pay for a landline phone. What I do like about RR is the fact my ip changes about once a month. That means my DNS records for my mail server only get updated like once a month and there is less of a chance of losing email.


EDIT: I am in Raleigh, NC. I am also living in a very heavy populated student area. I imagine they get hit here the worst. What really pissed me off is that I do consulting work so my email is very valuable. That is why I run my own mailserver. Roadrunner has the crappiest mail servers in the world. I was supposed to email back some people last night with some updated code but my connection went down. I don't mind if it goes down for hardware or any other reason BESIDES them turning my connection off. A simple email could have alerted me to the problem they had with me. But instead they just shut down my connection without any warning. BTW, I was only using my connection yesterday for about 4 hours. I know I did not hit 3gigs yesterday, it had to be another day that they were talking about.

Are you sure about that? I am located in North Raleigh and never had a problem like that.

 

[Phuz]

AFAIK, there isn't going to be any caps put in... but realistically, they probably just saw it and.. "uh, this guy nabbed 3gb today..".. HELLO?

SoCal RoadRunner was easily the best experience I've ever ran across (the few complaints I had were treated very well and fast, and I ended up getting 2 months out of 4 in the summer for free)

That is very funny to hear.. generally, SoCal has the most issues of any state there is. Daily.

Oh, and on mail servers.. Copy and paste from my resources here...

(d) Subscriber will not resell the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof, or otherwise charge others to use Road Runner, or any portion thereof. Further, Subscriber will not redistribute the Road Runner Service, or any portion thereof, whether or not Subscriber receives compensation for such redistribution. The Road Runner Service as offered under this Agreement is a residential service offered for personal, non-commercial use only. Subscriber agrees not to use the Road Runner Service for operation as an internet service provider, for the hosting of websites or for any business enterprise. Subscriber further agrees not to connect the cable modem to any computer other than the Computer(s) or to any server (or any computer running server applications that provide similar protocol services over the Road Runner Service), including without limitation any servers for mail, HTTP, FTP, RTP, IRC, DHCP, or multi-user interactive forums (e.g. gaming).

But I don't think they really look for that type of thing to be honest.. I mean, I'm really not sure. Basically, if we see someone just sucking all the bandwidth on a node, surely they'll be something done about it.

Btw, I don't give a damn about the company so I hope it didn't come off that I was defending them..

 

[klah]

I have ATTBI (at&t broadband; cable) in Atlanta and back when I had my usenet account i would DL ~10GB on some days and maybe 200GB/month. I was never contacted about this.

 

[NokiaDude]

I have Cox@Home and I love it. 1.5Mbits max and about 500kbs on average. NO bandwidth max usage crap here! Oh course I live in Escondido where almost everybody has dial-up except for the l337 people at school.

 

[Codewiz]

Hell yeah I know they don't "allow" mail, http, or ftp servers. The point is they don't care as long as you don't cause a problem. My mail server receives maybe 1MB a day in email. They haven't had a problem with it so far. If they asked me to shut it down then I would because it is technically against the rules.

I just don't like the fact that I get two totally different stories from them. One time i am told I was downloading too much, then in email I am told the problem is not downloading but uploading. They still haven't replied with my request for numbers on the upstream.

I can get bellsouth dsl 1.5mb down 256kb up for $50. That is what I had in college in south carolina. I still have the modem I used. If I did that, I would be paying like $15 more a month total but if I didn't get hassled I would be happy.

I was told in my first call to roadrunner the reason they looked at my account is because my area has so many connections(lots of students in the area). They are trying to keep stable service for all users. My problem with that is the fact it isn't my fault. Someone in north raleigh could be doing more downloading and uploading without having any problem but since RR oversold this area it is my fault now. If they have so many people subscribing down here them put in more equipment so solve the problem instead of hassling me for something other people do also. I wouldn't be nearly as pissed if they had emailed me or called me first before just cutting my connection without warning. Hell I very rarely average over 160KB/second downloading. I don't consider that very fast when on DSL I always got around 145KB/second unless the problem was caused by the site I was downloading from.


As for all broadband limiting downloads I doubt it will happen. The only type of service that would benefit is cable companies because the users are on shared bandwidth. DSL providers aren't having this same problem so they could keep unlimited service and put the cable companies out of business if the cable companies put limits on the use.

 

[Lvis]

Terms of service with my cable company limit me to 1 gig a month :disgust: Lucky for me they don't enforce it. I try not to attract attention though.

It's nice that you have a choice of broadband options, anyway.

 

[Phuz]

I just don't like the fact that I get two totally different stories from them. One time i am told I was downloading too much, then in email I am told the problem is not downloading but uploading. They still haven't replied with my request for numbers on the upstream.

Thats because the up/down is no where in my help tree or anywhere in my documentation. And you're waitinf for "them to get back to you"? hahaha.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: Phuz

I just don't like the fact that I get two totally different stories from them. One time i am told I was downloading too much, then in email I am told the problem is not downloading but uploading. They still haven't replied with my request for numbers on the upstream.

Thats because the up/down is no where in my help tree or anywhere in my documentation. And you're waitinf for "them to get back to you"? hahaha.

Yes I got an email stating why they would disconnect my service in the future. They said I was uploading too much. They said I should email them back if I had any questions. I did so and have yet to get a response for my questions.

 

[Phuz]

They said I should email them back if I had any questions. I did so and have yet to get a response for my questions.

Thats why I was laughing...