two reasons... Here in texas we are in the middle of nowhere. I
personally have no "connection" to texas.net, but am using insync.net
(Houston) for my bandwidth... big advantages are price and performance..
I'm 44.5ms from insync (56K), and am just two to three hops away from mci
and sprintlink, along with a large connection to UUNET at two hops
(direct). So, I'm a couple of milliseconds farther away - big deal... I
could pay $330/mo (paid yearly upfront) for my same connection and get
pretty sorry access to mci and sprintlink, when I get all three of the
big-boys at fairly high speed for $225/mo?
> > future. YMMV and most likely we cater to a different market.
>
> No doubt.
My competition has a fairly fast MCI connection, state of the art access
hardware, and their customers still complain about sorry speeds, because
basically have to go around the world twice before getting to anywhere
except MCI... Still I'm only five hops from them, and less than 10 hops
from most of the decently connected united states (lets not bring up edu
networks, though)...
JS