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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >The most basic Speakeasy package is "Standard EssentialEdge Basic", > >which costs $49.95/month. The least expensive Verizon package is the > >same price. Verizon does give you 10MB of web space and 4 email > > It's too bad that the price for DSL doesn't compete better against > cable. For $40/month I get much faster (possible peak) speeds, at > 1.5/384. I don't care about web storage or email addresses, all I > want is a pipe. While they don't have a clue about servers, using > a dynamic routing service like TZO gets me around most, if not > all, of their cluelessness. I need to go to $90/month to get the > same speed. I'm anxious to move, but it isn't (yet) worth > $600 / year. Bandwidth isn't the whole story, any more than clock speed is. My Speakeasy account is technically 1/3 the bandwidth of my MediaOne cable, but is actually faster. That's because there are fewer hops to the backbone, and Speakeasy's DNS servers are blindingly fast. MediaOne/RoadRunner/AT&T's DNS servers would often take seconds to answer. traceroute to blu.org (216.235.254.231), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 gw-081-068.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.68.1) 28.556 ms 21.654 ms 16.523 ms 2 border8.ge3-2.speakeasy-16.bsn.pnap.net (63.251.141.212) 14.483 ms 17.040 ms 15.834 ms 3 core2.fe0-1-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net (63.251.128.66) 16.462 ms 17.076 ms 16.500 ms As you can see, I'm three hops from tbe backbone. With my cablemode, I had to go through several Mediaone servers before I even got out of their intranet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D The internet is full. Go away. DK KD DDDD
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