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To: Neeka who wrote (75986)	6/22/2011 1:53:35 PM
From: bruce-l	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110624

Neeka: I'll let someone else go for the difference of how much 3 or 25 megs is. My question is are you sure you can get DSL? You said you were "up in the mountains". You must be quite a distance from what is called a "switching station". I recently was told by ATT that I can not get DSL at our cabin because I am more than ~15,000 feet from a switching station (we are about 6 miles or about 32,000'). We ran into this same issue years ago with my inlaws in that they were too far from a station. Just wondering. As far as price if we could of got DSL it would of been $19.95 for first year. bruce

To: Neeka who wrote (75986)	6/22/2011 2:18:26 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110624

Neeka, once you get the phone, try dial-up first and see if it fits your needs. It may if you only use it for email and news. If you want play online games or stream videos, broadband is a must. Enter your zip code to see if Clearwire works for you clearwire.com dial-up is limited to 56 kbps [1 kbps = 1,000 bits per second download speed]. the slowest and cheapest DSL is about 10 times as fast. Both come over your phone line, but clearwire comes over the air - like cell phone service.

To: Neeka who wrote (75986)	6/22/2011 3:08:57 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110624

A 3 mb file would take you about 8 minutes to download on dialup, 15 seconds on 1.5 dsl, and a couple of seconds on 4-5 cable connection. A 25 mb file would be about and hour, 2 minutes, and 45 seconds respectively. 3 mbs per second is not slow. Unless you are doing a lot of large downloads you should be fine. If at all possible, never go back to dialup. You will spend a lot of time waiting for webpages to load. I would seriously consider giving up my computer if I were to go back to dailup. JMO