yeah well if your going 2 plug earthlink plug them all the way, how much for that service,
my Yahoo/SBC/AT&T dsl is up for renewal, I get 1.5mbps down, and I don't know what up speed I have, but it's only $19.95 pre month On 6/4/07, Rod Morison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe the Covad service is to be sold as business DSL, presumably with > tighter SLAs and higher $s. Earthlink is in partnership with Covad and is > presently selling the "residential" version, up to 8mbps. I have a 5mbps > flavor of the Earthlink product and I generally see about 4.8 down, which > is great. > > Earthlink has a residential VOIP bundle on the Samsung DSLAM that uses a > powered copper pair...hence, voip stays up even if local power goes down. > (Everyone keeps a non-powered, wired phone handy, right?) That powered > copper is a feature of the Samsung, btw. > > Word is, if the line comes up clean, service is excellent, downstream > problems are few. However, if you have noise problems, you could be in for a > rough ride, but the distance specs for DSL2 are generally longer, so fewer > households should fall in that category. Avoid the Zyxel, ask for a Netopia > or Broadxent modem, Zyxel has had carrier problems (though I'm not sure you > get a choice.) > > I've been trying to get an Earthlink product manager out for a socalwug > talk (muni wifi or the wifi phone product), but no luck so far. > > Disclaimer: I do work for earthlink, on our softphone application (think > Skype here): www.mindspring.com > > Cheers, > > Rod > > > > > > > Frank Keeney wrote: > > Not wireless, but probably of interest to the group. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Matt Fanady > *Subject:* [SCFN] Covad to Offer ADSL2+ in 15 Major US Markets > > > > The new service, which Covad is calling ADSL2+, is available in three > flavors that support 8M, 10M or 15Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream of > Internet access. > > The service provider has upgraded its network in 11 markets with new > DSLAMs from Samsung <http://www.samsung.com/> that support the > International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ADSL2 > specification<http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.992.5/en>. > > > ADSL2+ doubles the maximum frequency used for downstream data transmission > from 1.1 MHz to 2.2 MHz. This effectively provides downstream data rates > of 25Mbps <http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2003/0120techupdate.html>on > phone lines as long as 5,000 feet. > > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/060107-covad.html > > > -M@ > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
