On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 15:24, Stephen R. Wilcoxon wrote:
> On Tue 2002/01/15 21:41:10 CST, Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at mediaone.net> wr
> ites:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 8:42 am, Leif Hvidsten wrote:
> > > If you go over to netcraft, you'll see there are plenty of people running
> > > Apache and IIS servers within Roadrunner's netblock:
> > >
> > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=RR-CENTRAL-2BLK,65.28.0.0,65.3
> > >1 .255.255
> > >
> > > I'm sure this is only a small sampling too.
> > >
> > My response:
> > 
> > These are two anonymous posts on one forum I visit.  I also use roadrunner 
> > cable service, but I pay quite a bit for my connection and don't really 
> > appreciate people hosting sites in my neighborhood sucking up bandwidth.  I 
> > might just go and report users I find hosting such sites!  Hows that settle 
> > in your gullet?  One day your site is there, the next...it ain't.   
> 
> Just wondering why you care?  Running servers on RoadRunner are slow.  
> Upload speeds are throttled to 384k.  I regularly get around 2000k download 
> - I probably wouldn't even notice if someone in my neighborhood was running 
> a "busy" server (eg using up his total 384k).

I just performed a quick check -- I sent a large file to an ftp server -- and was getting upload speeds definitely in excess of 800K.   

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