From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 5 6: 6:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4398837B417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 06:06:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02543; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:06:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA22489; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:06:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22485; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:06:27 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:06:27 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jason Halbert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Forrest Aldrich Subject: RE: ADSL with Verizon In-Reply-To: <004901c165e7$afca3540$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > yes - but that difference is only of consequence to the end user (you) > and the ISP. (the thing on the other end of the DSL line that your > connected to) It's just ATM packets to the Telco. Don't confuse the > ISP (the thing on the other end of the DSL circuit to you) with the > circuit provider. (the Telco) If he's with verizon on the east coast of the US, then the ISP and the circuit provider are the same company. (BTW, if you look at dslreports, most of the reviews of verizon say it's not that great) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message