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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Best way to manage/read TMG-L on AOL dialup?
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:02:53 -0800
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On or about 1/2/2006 05:32 AM a carrier pigeon from bob gillis delivered:

>I have not looked at the fine print. However here in New jersey
>Verizon is offering two grades of DSL, 100Mbp at the above $14.95
>intro and 300Mbps over fiberoptic cable at ai think the $29.95.

Are you sure of those numbers? 300Mbps would require you to
have a Gigabit NIC (or use a FireWire connection for networking).
Even 100Mbps is an EtherFast NIC. Any networking gear more than a two
years old, unless explicitly bought to be "high speed", is likely
basic 10Mbps Ethernet over UTP cables (10base-T). EtherFast
(100base-T) was extra cost up until about a year ago -- when Gigabit
(1000Mbps) NICs started to be supplied with new computers. For
comparison: USB 1.1 is ~11Mbps (yes, it beats old Ethernet speeds),
FireWire is 400Mbps (there is a new version for 800Mbps), and USB 2.0
("FastUSB") is 488Mbps. I don't know of any networking systems using
USB2.0 -- but WinXP does consider a FireWire port as a possible
network. 802.11g, as I recall, only runs at around 54Mbps (and with
collisions, probably only achieves 25Mbps). 802.11b is much slower.

The Earthlink service I took advantage of a few months ago
(before the FCC ruled that phone companies don't have to offer the
lines to ISPs at cost) is the "slow" service: 1.5Mbps, at $22/month
for the first year, then kicking up to $30/month regular. The next
regular tier is 3.0Mbps (which was offered for $19/month for SIX
months, then jumps to $45/month). There was also a high-speed (I
suspect business oriented) 6.0Mbps.

Given that a 56K dial-up would never achieve said speed (FCC
limited phone lines to a max of ~53Kbps), and any noise on the line
would reduce that -- my old connection tended to run 44Kbps. Even if
my 1.5ADSL only gets peaks of 1Mbps, that's still 22X my dial-up rate.

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