----- Original Message -----
From: "Erika L Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:28 AM
Subject: RE: Internet Access?
> Another lurker! Let's beat him with a stale muffin!!
>
> Hi Ron, ... I use ISDN.
>
> A little background about my abysmal internet access....
>
> The township I live in, Parsippany-Troy Hills, is a corporate mecca. It
> covers 25 square miles of land and houses a population of approximately
> 50,000 people. Among its diverse attributes is the extensive transportation
> network. The Township maintains access to Route I-80, I-287, I-280, US 46
> and US 202 as well as State Highways 10 and 53. It is located merely 25
> miles from Newark International Airport and is only 28 miles west of New
> York City.
>
> It can take as long as 45 minutes to get from one end of my town to another.
>
> Parsippany-Troy Hills is home to Pfizer; Nabisco; CIT; American Home
> Products; Lucent Technologies; Dialogic, now part of INTEL; Tivoli (used to
> be division of IBM or still is, I don't remember); Prudential; Cendant; ADP;
> NY Life; Chubb Life Insurance; Hoffman La Roche and State Farm is building a
> beautiful 400,000 sq. ft. class "A" office building. Not to mention numerous
> strip malls and other assorted smaller businesses.
>
> My point is, with all of the corporate businesses piling up around me, there
> should be an abundance of great, high-speed internet access plans. Ha!
> Cable?! Not available on my street. DSL? I'm about 300 yards too far from
> the station. T1? Please, to have it run to my office would cost a bloody
> fortune.
>
The company that we use provides a T-1 for $960/month including the local loop. I can
hook you up if you're interested.
Howie
P.S. anyone have a repository for New Jersey jokes? <g>
> So what am I stuck with? ISDN. Well, at least it's not a 56k dial-up. And
> working in studio isn't too bad. But it costs me about $120 a month on
> average.
>
> So that's my internet access saga.
>
> Erika
> (with a *K*)
>
> "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to
> be amused."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Connelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:27 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Internet Access?
>
>
> Howdy All,
>
> Sorry to introduce levity here, but...
>
> What are some of you US based, urban-located, home office
> developers doing for Internet access??
>
> I just discovered that my 2+ year arrangement with my DSL
> provider is about to come to an end. My provider (Zyan
> Communications) is filing for bankruptcy. I've been paying $50/mo
> for a business-level SDSL service at 384k with 32 IPs.
>
> I recognize this was a land-office deal, but I'm having a hard time
> coming to grips with $189/mo for the same thing when I "transition"
> my account to the provider who bought Zyan's access (DSL.net).
> That $189/mo seems to be close to the going rate out there...
>
> So what's everyone else doing?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Ron
> (driven out of lurk mode with a stick...)
>
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