Roadrunner

Eric hattenator at usa.net
Thu Jul 19 05:36:55 PDT 2001


I just wanted to point out to everyone that Oceanic isn't evil.  They're not
trying to put a multiple computer tax on you.  When you pay the $10/mo. (I
thought it was $7), they resell you an IP address that they had to pay for.
Maybe not that much, but that's capitalism at work.  And having your own IP
address for each computer can allow you to do a lot more without having to
do some serious hacking and port forwarding.  Most notably you can NSLookup
authentication systems easily.  Whether this type of thing is worth the
price is up to you.  And as far as splitting your bandwidth goes, how often
do you download 3.5MB/s on your 4 computer home network anyway?  True, it
may be hard to get that fast considering that Oceanic's transpacific lines
seem to max out at about 100K/s/connection, but having two cable lines and
modems wouldn't help you out any.

"About the rr installer, I don't think they appreciate people splitting the
connection (they like to charge an additional $10 a month for each extra
computer,and all they do is split your bandwidth"

-Eric Hattemer



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