[TriLUG] roadrunner and static ip

[Ben Pitzer]

Chris, send me the IP of your cable modem, and I'll look into that for
you.  Sometimes the Time Warner techs are pretty lax because they're
still not used to dealing with the higher level of service that
providing IP over RF requires.  The signal to noise ratio (SNR) has to
be much better for Internet service.

As for unfiltered ports, we do not filter any ports on our network.  RR
corporate may, although I'm not positive, at their own discretion, run
some sort of port scanning software to find out if anyone is running a
server.  The only evidence I have of that is friends asking me about RR
IPs showing up in their Apache logs.

As for Brett, you'll have to get a quote for RR commercial services. 
Static IPs are primarily used for servers, and since the RR AUP
expressly prohibits servers (servers can equal extra bandwidth, which
realistically speaking is what we're selling) under the residential
service.

As for bandwidth, there are higher bandwidth plans than 512kbps. 
Actually, you should not be getting 2mbps on your current cable modem,
to my knowledge.  We don't offer tiered bandwidth on our residential RR
service at this time.  Sometimes, however, you will get bursts of much
better speed than your modem is provisioned for.  Just smile and be
grateful.

It's my belief that they are not distributing Zyxel routers for our
commercial service solutions, which is a fair step up.  Call the RR Biz
folks to find out what you can get.  They may have even less expensive
plans than the one that Chris was quoted on.

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 19:25, Thunder Bear wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 19:26, H Brett Bolen wrote:
> > I've been really happy with roadrunner.   
> 
> You're obviously not in the same service area as me.
> 
> Mine has been down pretty often.  I think tomorrow is the fourth
> scheduled visit since we got RR a few months ago for a tech to see why
> we get such wicket packetloss.  It's been pretty much unusable the last
> few days except for short windows of partial usability.
> 
> The tech that comes out has an "I don't care" attitude.  He openly
> admits the signal quality is poor for my neighborhood, but won't do
> anything about it.
> 
> > Has anybody gone with roadrunner and static ip?  What does it cost?
> 
> I've priced it out.  A few months ago I was quoted $99 per month for one
> static IP and unfiltered ports (i.e. I could run servers).  No upgrade
> in bandwidth in either direction from residential class.
> 
> > And I've been delightfully surprized with nc.rr.com.  My current ip
> > has been fixed so far -- it has remained the same for about a year,
> > ( I don't remember it ever changing ) but there is no guarentee
> > that it will stay the same.
> 
> Mine stays relatively static until my modem can no longer communicate
> upstream for a long period, after which it comes back with a new IP.
> 
> 
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