"Roger Long" wrote in
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Pretty good sluthing, Larry. I'm suddenly having some intermittent
trouble bringing up my own page and others from here. Road Runner has
generally been rock solid and has the best technical support I've ever
encountered but they to have occasional hiccups.



I have several friends on RR in Summerville, SC, just up from Charleston, a
suburb. Time-Warner owns the cable company in Summerville. Your
experience matches theirs. Their local installers have no clue, but the
service works quite well, once you get it running.

I'm very lucky to have access to two cable companies, Comcrap and Knology,
here. Comcrap isn't an issue with 2G/month Usenet limit. How awful.
Knology is a brand new, all fiber to the neighborhood, even offering cable
telephone. It's been down 3 minutes in 3 years, now. Amazing service from
a cable company. The local reps are very knowledgeable and helpful. I
only buy internet $55/mo from them. I don't pay anyone to watch
advertising (TV) and cut the wires on telephone many years ago. Noone
needs a home phone with cellular, now. One of life's pleasures was calling
Bell$outh and asking them to come remove all their wires from my
house...(c;

Unfortunately, RR seems to have idiots running usenet, too. Your IP,
24.198.203.135, is in your header. I assume nyroc is Rochester from your
name server lookup. Your firewall is working fine, no pings. From Knology
to your UBR06 node is really fast between us...(c;

06/09/05 08:13:40 Fast traceroute 24.198.203.135
Trace 24.198.203.135 ...
1 192.168.0.1 1ms 1ms 1ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
2 69.73.126.1 15ms 12ms 17ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
3 24.214.0.178 14ms 15ms 13ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
4 24.96.110.57 19ms 14ms 13ms TTL: 0 (ge.0-1-0.cr-
Char.SC.knology.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
5 24.214.0.5 26ms 27ms 25ms TTL: 0 (so.2-1-1.cr-
Atla.GA.US.knology.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
6 63.211.121.5 27ms 26ms 25ms TTL: 0 (unknown.Level3.net
fraudulent rDNS)
7 4.68.103.65 25ms 27ms 27ms TTL: 0 (ae-1-
53.bbr1.Atlanta1.Level3.net ok)
8 209.247.8.69 42ms 43ms 45ms TTL: 0 (so-1-0-
0.mp1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net ok)
9 209.247.9.254 43ms 45ms 47ms TTL: 0 (so-7-0-
0.gar1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net ok)
10 4.78.148.2 72ms 53ms 55ms TTL: 0
(ROADRUNNER.gar1.Level3.net ok)
11 24.92.224.202 71ms 72ms 67ms TTL: 0 (rdc-24-92-224-
202.nyroc.rr.com ok)
12 24.25.160.137 67ms 72ms 70ms TTL: 0 (gig0-3.ptldmeptl-
ubr06.nyroc.rr.com ok)
13 No Response * * *
^^^^^^^^^^^ nice firewall...(c;