[luau] Road Runner Vs. DSL revisited

[Vince Hoang]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:47:06AM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote:
> If you really need good speeds and DSL is the right price you
> might want to consider an ISP service such as Century Computers
> that peers with HIX, Time Warner etc.. they have a list. 

To clarify, the HIX is the Hawaii Internet Exchange. Local ISPs
peer at that location so that traffic between two ISPs do not
have to route to the mainland.

> If your upper is also on Century they can peer you privately
> so your connection does not even hit the internet. You will
> see much more bandwidth this way. This is fact as my company
> used 768/768 from an ISP, which sucked, then moved to Century
> where we seen much improvements. CIR still the same but peering
> privately helps a ton.

If you use private circuits and still want Internet access, at
least one location needs an Internet-bound connection as well.

-Vince