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To: Kiriwuth Path who wrote (20)5/17/1997 3:42:00 PM
From: Jon Tara   of 383
 
Kiriwuth, I have @Home through Cox in San Diego. Some of my co-workers also have Roadrunner through SouthWest Cable.

The speed figures that you quoted are not correct - the speed depends on the particular setup that a company has in a particular location. My @Home service is at the same speeds that you quoted for Roadrunner - 27Mb/sec downlink (but limited to 10Mb/sec at the Ethernet interface) and 768Kb/sec uplink. The system here in San Diego uses a Motorola Cybersurfr modem, the same that is used in most areas by Roadrunner.

Both services may use a much-inferior system with a telephone modem uplink on some systems that are not 2-way capable.

From talking to my co-workers who have Roadrunner, I beleive that the @Home service has a slight edge:

1. Roadrunner requires the use of a "login" program, and automatically disconnects access to the net on a time-out basis. @Home has no such requirement. Roadrunner does not supply a login program for Linix or other alternate operating system. (Though I know somebody who wrote one for Linix.)

2. Roadrunner blocks low IP ports (so you cannot run a web server or FTP server on your PC). @Home does not, and provides full IP connectivity. @Home provides an *optional* proxy server that can be used to speed-up web access. I find that generally it is better to use the proxy server, particularly if you access popular sites.

3. This may be local to San Diego, but @Home has provided much more bandwidth to the net than Southwest has. @Home had 10MB/sec to the net at the time of my installation, and they had immediate plans to upgrade to 45Mb/sec. Reports vary as to whether Southwest has one or three T-1 lines. (e.g. no more than 4.5Mb/sec).
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