[luau] Road Runner

[Warren Togami]

----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Road Runner


> I just put a RoadRunner page on the wiki for the mplug (someone update
> it with Hawaii info please, I based it off Indy).
>
> http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php?RoadRunner
>
> That should have all the info you need to get on Road Runner.
>
> --MonMotha
>

Any operating system with the network card set to DHCP should work without
any trouble on RoadRunner Hawaii.

A few questions:
1. What ethernet card do you have?  I assume Windows on that same computer
works fine with RoadRunner?
2. Are you even using Ethernet on that computer?  The cable modems they
install now have both a USB and ethernet connector, and they will use USB by
default because it is cheaper for customers that don't have an ethernet
card.  The techs that I've spoken to (some of which use Linux themselves)
said that the USB is supported by Linux, but they didn't say any specifics
and I haven't seen anything about this on the Internet.  Much easier to make
it work with a good $20 ethernet card, slightly faster and less error prone
too.
3. What Linux distribution and version are you using?

Somewhat related notes:
1. Hawaii Roadrunner stopped using that login client a few years ago because
it was very problematic and their login server couldn't scale to the number
of users.  Most downtime back then was due to the login server crashing
repeatedly.  Eventually they just removed it.
2. Hawaii Roadrunner doesn't seem to have a download cap, but upload cap is
384 kilobytes/second.
3. It is AGAINST RoadRunner TOS to run any kind of server, but they don't
seem to enforce it unless find you doing illegal stuff or using a
disproportionate amount of bandwidth.  Strangely last I checked you can't
find this on the main TOS on Oceanic's site but hidden deeper in
hawaii.rr.com.  I don't know what the current policy is if it changed since
then.