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Re: TWC Fiber - Any Experience?
The note about their backbone in this area is encouraging. They seem to have a generous helping of L3, whose network I like.
I suppose I trust rDNS on traceroutes a bit too much...seeing "ge" in there made me a bit queasy, but then again all of Kerrville's bandwidth goes over an OC3 from what I hear (from ATT).
Here in Fredericksburg, according to folks at the city level, TWC was basically the savior for communications by buying out TCI Cable, which was doing such a crappy job in the nineties that the city was going to work with Kerrville Telephone Company to overbuild TCI's network with their own HFC system.
Verizon at the time only had T1 service and it was freaskishly expensive to do loops connecting city offices, schools, etc. so the city had to build out its own dark fiber for that purpose. To this day, Verizon still has no DSL (et alone FiOS) and it seems anything above bonded T1s are hard to come by.
So, as the city was working to get serviceable TV and broadband to TCIers, TWC came in, bought the TCI system and upgraded everything. The system is beginning to show its age again (easy to do when you're selling 15/2 packages over DOCSIS 1.1) but the city's connection to the internet is via TWC.
Side note: I'll respond to your IM in a sec. Looks like big city pricing is, as usual, a heckuva lot cheaper than out here. |
