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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT, DSL service was [Best way to manage/read TMG-L on AOLdialup?]
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:36:03 -0500
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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 fiber optic cable at ai think the $29.95.
>
Since I wrote the above I have looked at the Verizon web site as
mentioned in another message. When i start up or click on the Verizon
on-line Icon, the Status say connected at 100 Mbps. However the web
site showing the new services and rates says 763 Kbps and 3 Mbps. I
suspect that i am really getting 763 Kbps. I don't know if that is due
to an error in the software wording or a change in the terminology.

bob gillis

>>
>
> 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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