RoadRunner broadband

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When I moved from Ohio to Florida, my new house was not in range for DSL service and I had to switch to cable: RoadRunner. Installation was not nearly as smooth as DSL since the cable tech had to run a new, dedicated, cable line into my home office, but after that, everything was fine. It seems to be faster than the DSL I had in Ohio, and according to SpeedGuide.net and DSLReports.com, I am getting better throughput. Having sampled both DSL and cable, now, I’m hard-pressed to choose one over the other. They both seem to be excellent ways to get high-speed access to the internet.

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  1. Verizon will soon be rolling out its fiber service (FIOS) in my area, promising download speeds of 5mbs (on the low end) for prices similar to its current DSL offering. RoadRunner has since announced faster residential cable speeds as well. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

  2. Another sign that the internet is moving on … I got an e-mail from Roadrunner today informing me they are turning off dial-in access on November 30. I used that a lot when I was still travelling all the time for business back in the early 2000s, but I can’t remember the last time I actually used an analog modem to connect to the internet. I guess I was surprised the RoadRunner dial-up service was still around.

    Over 5 years since my previous comment about FIOS coming soon, and it’s still not available in my neighborhood! C’mon Verizon!

  3. FIOS still hasn’t made it into my neighborhood. Almost 12 years later and I’m still using Brighthouse cable internet … now with download speeds of 20mpbs. I couldn’t have imagined having that kind of pipe into my house back in 2001.

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