[Hidden-tech] Verizon DSL slow?

[matthew at the-spa.com]

verizon made a signifigant change to their dsl offerings a few months
ago and it noticeably slower.

i don't have any inside information othe than what a customer service
rep told one of my people (we used to resell verizon service)

but in general large providers like comcast, verizon and aol are only
able to offer the services so cheaply because what they do is put in
caching servers between you and the internet. the key is how much
real bandwidth they have and how much of it is in a cache.

for instance if you goto a very common site like cnn.com you will get
it nearly instantly because it is stored in a caching server that
could be as close as western mass.
 
but if you goto a site that is less common it then you will see how
much true bandwidth you have because then they have to go out and get
the site and bring it to you live and "fresh" whereas the cnn.com
site was "canned" on their server.

cnn might not be the best example because the news changes and the
servers are very good at sensing that but you probably get the idea.

there are some people who don't just resell verizon dsl but are
directly connected into it, the only one i know of for sure who does
that locally is crocker. they have their own dsl switch and they run
a very large connection directly to verizon and the internet you get
isn't from verizon but from crockers connections.

there is a huge difference.

basically with both verizon and comcast now offering a connection
that is 3.0 mbps you have to stop and think, that is basically 2 t1's!

just one t1 will cost you $1150 a month from a major provider like
sprint, so how can they give you 2xt1=$2300?

the only way to do that is to use a lot of caching servers, that and
i read not too long ago a comcast executive in an article saying that
they lose around $1,000 for the first year for each customer they
switch over to digital cable with a cable modem.

matthew

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>---- Original Message ----
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>Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Verizon DSL slow?
>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:16:08 -0400
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>>okay, me too. I've just switched to Verizon DSL because of their
>$25/mo 
>>offer and now I wish I would have stayed with Comcast broadband.
>There 
>>is a noticeable difference between Verizon and Comcast.
>>
>>Rick
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>>On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Peter Irvine wrote:
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>>> Yes, I've been having problems with Verizon DSL both at home and
>in 
>>> the office, both with page loading speed and with sending mail.
>>> It's a total mystery to me.
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>>> Peter Irvine
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>>> On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Trace Meek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else out there have Verizon DSL and if so, are you finding
>the 
>>>> service to be slow lately? I counted 20 seconds for one page to 
>>>> appear. Once within a given domain, pages seem to load quicker. I
>
>>>> tried all the usual remedies (restart router, etc.) but the
>service 
>>>> is still patchy.
>>>>
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