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To: Baker Street who wrote (17998)	11/28/1998 1:08:00 PM
From: Maakamil	Respond to of 119973

My understanding is that Road Runner is about 80% as fast as a T1 line. All I know is it's plenty fast for me.

To: Baker Street who wrote (17998)	11/28/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: JEB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119973

Thanks, It seems they are the full service. In other words, you contact them and they do the connection and hook you up with the cable service. You do not have to deal with Time Warner. Is this correct?

To: Baker Street who wrote (17998)	11/28/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: Gregg Sterner	Respond to of 119973

The 40.00/month T1 price mentioned previously does seam somewhat low..... T1's can be very expensive because they are priced by the mile from the Telephone Central Office where your cable plant comes from plus any installation charges. That is, providing the Telephone company is also your ISP. Otherwise, you might have to pay the distance plus local loop charges all the way to your ISP. I would strongly suggest using ADSL or ISDN. I have a Dual channel ISDN which gives be 128k directly to my ISP using an Ascend Pipeline 50 router. This gives me my own private LAN in my home office. The ISP gives me 16 IP Addresses to use for my equipment. At peak traffic I'm only using approx. 27% of the bandwidth even with my realtime Level I feed from bullsession.com on one PC, Etrade order processing on a second PC and using the third PC for my client work and market research. Soon I'll be setting up Level II feed in place of the Level I and testing shows that it only increases my bandwidth by 6%. The ISDN line from GTE costs 62.00/mo (plus 67.00 install costs), the ISP service cost 299.00 per month with 110.00 setup costs. I've seen some advertisements where ISPs are selling Dual Channel ISDN for as low as 99.00 not including the cost of the router. There is a distance limitation of 18,000 cable feet from the Telephone Central Office that services your facility. ADSL also has a distance limitation of 12,000 from the CO. You might also check into cable modems from your local cable TV company. I know several SA members have them. GS