SkellBasher
Yes Sorto, I'll take my Prozac
join:2000-10-22
North Tonawanda, NY
| reply to WFThor
Re: GameRail/Charter
said by WFThor  :I would love to be able to provide GameRail for free for ever, but the realities are that maintaining a nationwide fiber network, with carrier class equipment, a software development team, and a network team isn't cheap. There's no way you guys built out that fiber network unless you got a LOT of venture capital up front. $11.99 an month does not pay for quality transit. 
By what I can see, you're only riding the old Broadwing (now L3) backbone, and your entry into a market is predicated on negotiating a peering agreement with the ISP at some upstream aggregation point.
As DHRacer already brought up, you have no control over the network segments upstream or downstream from your arranged peering points. As such, you have zero control (or liability) over network issues on the residential ISP's network, or the networks after traffic exits your network.
It almost seems like a play to bring more transit traffic to L3, and take advantage of the 'ZOMG MY PING SUXXORZ LOL!!11' crowd. |
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CoxCable4
Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | we needed gamerail back in 1998. I remember trying to frag on east coast servers on 784k sdsl and being routed to god knows where. course, those were in the cais days =P |
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IWLoneWolf
join:2005-12-09
Dallas, OR
 ·Charter Pipeline
 ·Qwest.net
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August 2nd, @12:28AM
| I have been testing Gamerail some it does cut my hops in half and have seen somes improvement at time using gamerail when my normal path to the server in Texas I play on give me high spiking pings.But Keep in mind this service is new,did the internet work the best everyone wanted it to when it first came out.Time and testing of this service for the user will be the real proof.If it helps a user with there connection to a game server, then they can decide if it is worth the cost or not if the performance difference is not enough to justified the cost do not use it and do not pay the cost.Example for me DSL is much better then dial-up for online gaming so I for go the cost difference for DSL,Thats my choice. |
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