William H. Magill on Sun, 8 Sep 2002 15:22:52 -0400


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



On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 07:58 AM, Kevin Brosius wrote:

multiple seriousity wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, William H. Magill wrote:
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 05:07 PM, multiple seriousity wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Rebecca Ore wrote:
Verizon has three packages for Residential DSL now, if I'm remembering
correctly. What I got was the cheapest one. They're beta testing
what is the "cheapest one" that you got? I think they have a 1.5 and a
768 package.. I don't know about any 'third package' (except for the
different pricing deal I found..) how much are you paying and what are
you getting for it?

Hmmm... Bell Atlantic Verizon  had 3 DSL packages.
      768x90 and 1.5x90 - known as DSL and DSL professional
      and 1.5x768 called Pro or some such name.

 From what I can tell, Verizon has not really changed the offerings,
except that the 90 is now 128.
Yes, and 768 used to be 640 but changed to 768 (although I haven't seen
anywhere near either number yet... can anybody recommend a good website to
test speed one sees? I've already tried dslreports.)
What's wrong with dslreports?  I guess you'll need to have a java
enabled web browser for it to run the test, but I've used it a bunch of
times with Netscape 4.  The numbers seem realistic from what I've seen.
Although I haven't tried it in a month or 2.  Is it having trouble?

I just ran these

I just ran against NAC.net in NY and got 1399Kbps and 377kbps.

Megapath in San Jose Ca shows:	1462kbps and 372kbps

linkline in Los Angeles Ca shows: 	1513kbps and 381kbps

Theoretically I should be showing 1500 and ?? Originally, I believe it was 128, but I'm obviously getting more than that, but not 768, so I wonder what my up-link speed should be? (Although, I will say, I'm wireless behind an Apple Airport base station with the machine I'm using for these tests, and I have no idea what kind of lag I'm introducing as a result... never tried to measure it.)

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org

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