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From: MJ Mann <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Best way to manage/read TMG-L on AOL dialup?
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:44:39 -0500
References: <LPBBJNIOBJEJOGJFMDGJOEHMJGAB.ddburghart@cox.net> <014401c60f18$71394c10$6c99f204@DFKLGF11> <43B86240.7010302@verizon.net> <056501c60f63$3ed54120$6401a8c0@richard2kgrcz4> <43B92B89.7020108@verizon.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20060102134255.032539b8@mail.earthlink.net>
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Dennis,

I also live in NJ.
Here's the info from the Verizon site:
(It was a chart, so I tried to adapt to it wouldn't get messed up) <g>
Pricing Plan
Maximum Connection Speed
Month 1
Months2-3
Months 4-12

One Year
Up to 3 Mbps/768Kbps
FREE
$19.95/month
$29.95/month

Up to 768 Kbps /128 Kbps
FREE
$14.95/month
$14.95/month
Maureen


On 1/2/06, Dennis Lee Bieber <> wrote:
>
> 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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