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To: Bnad who wrote (685)	11/21/1997 2:36:00 AM
From: Altec	Read Replies (2) of 29970

> I've also read (in Rolling Stone) about a guy's > experience with Road Runner cable modem service from Time Warner > (he lives in a test area). The service "slows to a crawl" between > 7 and 11 PM. And this is only under market testing conditions. I wouldnt draw any link whatsoever between RoadRunner experiences and @Home. I have @Home; it rocks. I know people that have RR; it sucks. The big difference is that @Home has taken a fundamentally different technical approach than anyone else out there. @Home developed their own high speed national backbone, and uses caching, replication, and other stuff to make it consistently fast. Check out their website for more info: www.home.net RoadRUnner tried to be cheap and not do any of that. THey basically try to just plug a cable modem into the same old overloaded Internet. Simply put, it doesn't work. (I also suspect the DSL hypesters will turn some shade of green when they figure it out, too). If you check out the Internet newsgroups, you'll see that RoadRunner customers are consistently unhappy (poor service, indifferent attitude, poor performance), and most @Home customers consistently love it. I've even heard of a group of RR customers in San Diego lobbying Time-Warner to switch to @Home! Big difference.

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