Talking about Bandwidth

[Thepoet]

Recently many people were talking about movie sizes being too large at 500k

etc. Currently this is true for most people, BUT, the situation is beggining

to change in many places in the country. For example here in Colorado and

Arizonia as well, the local RBOC-US Worst ...er... West

is starting up their ADSL

Here is a price comparison of their services. Please note that the $40.00

per moth price includes use of the ADSL modem IF you use US Worst for your

ISP (an additional 19.95 for unlimited access)

from http://www.uswest.com/com/customers/interprise/dsl/pricing.html in case

you want more info.


The following prices are based on a one year contract. Pricing state to

state may vary.  Product Per

month fee Initial

set-up fee ATM OAL*

Per Month        Install


MegaLine (256k) $40 $110 n/a n/a

MegaOffice (512k) $62.40 $110 n/a n/a

MegaBusiness (768k) $76.80 $110 n/a n/a


MegaBit:

   1 M down 1 M up  $120 $110 n/a n/a

   4 M down 1 M up $480 $110 n/a n/a

   7 M down 1 M up $840 $110 n/a n/a


MegaCentral:

   1.544 Mbps $455 $500 ** n/a

   3 Mbps $967 $500 $674.50 $840.27

   Each additional

   3 Mbps + $239

to previous fee $500 n/a n/a


MegaPak $59.95 $199*** n/a n/a




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In addition to the above charges, the MegaLine, MegaOffice, MegaBusiness and

MegaBit customers will need to buy a Netspeed Modem or PCI card from

U S WEST for their computer. The price for this ranges from $199 to $299.


MegaBit Services provide users with a fast-paced connection to either a

corporate LAN or the Internet. Both the data and voice traffic travel on the

same pair of telephone wires so the user may use the phone while working on

the computer. The customer's phone service remains the same and the customer

continues to pay the current charges for residential or business phone

service. The pricing of MegaBit Services does not include pricing of phone

service.

*Asynchronous Transfer Mode Optical Access Link � Certain parameters need to

be met. Contact your sales representative for further information.


**** so folks the issue of bandwidth may not be that much of a deal if your

target market consists of folks with speed. However, if you are addressing

the larger universal market, well then it is.

Perhaps a dual Flash site based upon speed?



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