Kevin Brosius on Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:57:55 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Comcast or Verizon DSL for Linux laptop?


Rebecca Ore wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Noah silva wrote:
> 
> > My
> > friend's Verizon DSL also seems very slow, but that could just be the
> > speed option she purchased, as I didn't ask.
> 
> I just did the bandwidth test and got 131kb/sec uploading and 600 to 700 kb/sec
> downloading which is in spec with what I've got.  It's also faster than the
> sdsl download times I was getting through DCA.net/Covad.


Is that a 640/128 line?  Did they offer you anything with 300k or higher
on the outbound side, and quote you any prices?  (I'm using a 640/128
from DirecTV with Verizon line, and find the 128k outbound a little slow
for some types of remote connections.  Other than that it's great.)

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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