Now that Verizon has teamed up with Yahoo and lowered their cost to $15/month, they are finally a competitive service. Basically they are offering you 768 Kbps downstream (receiving information/webpages/downloads) and 128 Kbps upstream (sending requests for information and uploading files).
Dialup is technically 56 Kbps, but current government regulations limit it to 53 Kbps. After that, a combination of your modem's quality, the age of your house (old wiring can cause a poorer connection), and your ISP can reduce that figure down even further, with a ''good'' connection speed being in the mid 40s.
Since DSL is over 10 times faster than dial-up, it will be a significant increase, and a great value considering dial-up costs between $9.95 (People's PC) and $23.90 (AOL). Although even dial-up is capable of uploading and downloading large files, the DSL connection will help turn hours into minutes when downloading files and sufing the web. While it won't be as fast as cable internet, it is fine for your needs, beats what you have now, and is the best deal for broadband internet currently available.
Hope this helps,
John
I saw that Verizon now offers DSL for $14.95/month at a speed of up to 768k/128k. I am currently on dial-up and want to switch to an affordable high speed connection so that i can upload photos onto ofoto,snapfish, etc.. download mustic from the internet,etc. can someone explain to me what the speed of this dsl connection means, and if it will be fast enough to support what I plan to use the internet for.
Thanks.

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