Verizon Switches On Speedier DSL

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Telephone company Verizon Communications has introduced a faster consumer broadband service to win over online gamers, at-home workers and other customers with high-bandwidth desires.
For $40 a month, the new DSL service promises data downloads of up to 3 megabits per second and uploads of 786 megabits per second, Verizon said Tuesday. Customers in 12 East Coast states and Washington, D.C., are the first to be offered the service in addition to the Verizon's existing 1.5mbps plan, which costs $30 a month. Depending on the success of the 3mbps plan, Verizon may offer even faster connections to the Internet, company representative Briana Gowing said.
Source: c|net

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Verizon hasn't done a damn thing here in PR. For $40, we get 256/128. :bawling:
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited September 2004
    Wait, wait. 786 MEGAbits?!
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2004
    Yeah thats a max of 98k up.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited September 2004
    No, that would be a max up 98 MegaBytes up . . . I think 786 kbits is what was meant.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited September 2004
    a2jfreak wrote:
    No, that would be a max up 98 MegaBytes up . . . I think 786 kbits is what was meant.
    That's what I'm assuming ... or hoping, rather. If there were speeds like that ... on UPLOAD ... I'd probably crap myself.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    HAHA, imagine that? You could host CNN and more at the same time with that kind of connection.
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