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INTERNET SERVICES PRICELIST
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56K Dialup
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Equipment Required
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Analog data services over a standard voice telephone line. Speeds can range from 300 baud
to 56K baud. Actual speed may vary due to the quality of the telephone line. Most ISP's
provide dialup services for their local area only. internet
Galaxy is a national dialup provider.
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Very Portable
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Modem
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$19.95 per month
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ISDN
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Equipment Required
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Abbreviation of Integrated Services Digital Network, an international communications
standard for sending voice, video, and data over digital telephone lines or normal
telephone wires. ISDN supports data transfer rates of 64 Kbps(64,000 bits per sec).
Most ISDN lines offered by telephone companies give you 2 lines called B channels.
You can use one line for voice and the other for data, or you can use both the
lines for data to give you data rates of 128 Kbps, 3 times the data rate provided
by today's fastest modems.
The original version of ISDN employs baseband transmission. Another version called
B-ISDN, uses broadband transmission rates of 1.5 Mbps. B-ISDN requires fiber optic
cables and is not widely available.
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Rock Solid Technology Low Cost
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ISDN Modem
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$20.00 to $250.00 per month
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DSL
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Equipment Required
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Refers collectively to all types of digital subscriber lines, the 2 main
categories being ADSL and SDSL.
DSL technologies use sophisticated modulation schemes to pack data onto copper wires
They are sometimes referred to as last-mile technologies because they are used only for
connections from a telephone switching station to a home or office, not between
switching stations.
DSL is similar to ISDN in as much as both operate over existing copper telephone
lines
(POTS) and both require the short runs to a central telephone office (usually
less than 20,000 feet). However, DSL offers much higher speed
up to 32 Mbps for downstream
traffic, and from 32 Kbps to over 1 Mbps for upstream traffic.
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Fast and Cheap
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DSL MOdem NIC
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$49.95 to $450.00 per month
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Fixed Wireless Broadband
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Equipment Required
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Also referred to as LAWN. A type of local-area network that uses high frequency radio waves rather
than wires to communicate between nodes. Quick deployment.
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Doesn't rely on phone company
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HUB/NIC
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$150.00 to $2,000.00 per month
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Frame Relay
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Equipment Required
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A packet switching protocol for connecting devices on a wide area
network (W.A.N). Frame Relay networks in the U.S. support data transfer rates at T1(1.544Mbps) and T3(45Mbps)
speeds. In fact, you can think of frame realy as a way of utilizing
existing T1 and T3
line owned by a service provider. Most telephone companies now provide frame relay service
for customers who want connections at 56Kbps to T1 speeds. (In Europe, Frame Relay speeds
vary from 64 Kbps to 2 Mbps. In the U.S. Frame Relay is quite popular because it is relatively
inexpensive. However it is being replaced in some areas by faster technologies, such as ATM.)
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Private Connections
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CSU/DSU and Router
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$350.00 to $3,500.00 per month
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T1
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Equipment Required
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A dedicated phone connection supporting data rates of 1.544 Mbps. A T-1 line actually consists of
24 individual channels, each of which supports 64 Kbps. Each 64 Kbps channel can be configured to carry
voice or data traffic. Most telephone companies allow you to
purchase a portion of the 24 channels,
known as fractional T1 access.
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Most Common High
Bandwidth Connection
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CSU/DSU and Router
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$600.00 to
$1,500.00 per month
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