Rebecca Ore on Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:23:36 -0400


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


On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote:

> Rebecca Ore wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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.)

Verizon has three packages for Residential DSL now, if I'm remembering
correctly.  What I got was the cheapest one.  They're beta testing static IP
packages -- lots of folks seem to want to run servers.  I don't remember what
the other two speed grades were, should be on their website.

-- 
Rebecca Ore


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