[luau] Road Runner

[MonMotha]

Yeah, the info about the use of the client was just for background info 
only and so that if someone hit that page from an area that still used 
it (though I don't think any do, our installation in Indy never has 
since it's fairly new) they would at least know what is up.

Seems like RR Hawaii takes the same attitude as indy does on servers. 
I've actually been basically told by the techs that if you don't call 
attention to yourself they won't bother you.  I mentioned the 
portscanning and whatnot because I hear they're pretty adament about the 
no servers policy (and portscan you constantly) in some places like New 
York.

I'm thinking about putting up a page sometime about how the roadrunner 
infrastructure is set up (useful for doing some prediagnostics before 
you phone up infrastructure support, though they're very helpful here), 
and I'd like anyone who wants to to give me info about how it appears to 
be set up other places (traceroutes, modem configs, etc).

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:
> ----- 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.
> 
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