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Aggregated Digital Subscriber Lines for Residence
What is Aggregated DSL?
Can I get Aggregated DSL?
Service Details & Pricing
Additional Services Available with your DSL Account
What is Aggregated DSL?
Aggregated DSL combines the speed from multiple DSL lines into a single connection of increased speed. Using up to 4 ADSL lines, we can presently achieve speeds of up to 24Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. The method Raw Bandwidth uses to do this routes the same IP address block over all the available connections in such a way that a single TCP/IP stream can make use of all the lines and achieve up to the full aggregated speed; there are no NAT tricks involved!
Aggregated DSL is particularly useful if you are too far from the serving telephone company DSL equipment to receive the speed you desire over a single DSL line, or if you simply want more speed than is available over a single line.
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Can I get Aggregated DSL?
Residentially-priced Aggregated DSL is available from Raw Bandwidth everywhere that Raw Bandwidth offers single-line ADSL; this includes most of the greater San Francisco Bay area in specific locations where ADSL is available, up the coast to the Oregon border (California LATA 1). Distance from a telephone company's Central Office (CO) or DSL-enabled Remote Terminal (RT) is a limiting factor in the speed we can achieve on each individual ADSL line that we aggregate, so it in part determines what aggregated plans you can achieve.. To check availability, please email us at sales@rawbandwidth.com, and include your complete service address, or phone us at 650-802-8006.
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Service Pricing and Philosophy
Raw Bandwidth's approach to pricing all of our services is to offer sustainable pricing, and quality service... we focus on providing the full throughput of your Aggregated DSL service on a statistically sustained basis to the Internet, for the use of one dwelling unit (family or roomate situation).Raw Bandwidth presently does not permit sharing of your Aggregated DSL connection outside of your own dwelling unit, due to the actuarial assumptions about use of your connection. You may share it with your roommates and family members who live with you, but may not use it to provide Internet access to your neighbors or the general public, whether via wired or wireless connections, for free or for charge. If you would like to resell/give/trade your connection (all termed 'resale' whether you receive money or not), please contact us to negotiate pricing for a resellable connection. We are open to using Aggregated DSL lines for such purpose, but Residential Aggregated DSL pricing is predicated on assumptions for typical traffic/usage by the residents of a single dwelling unit.
Residential Aggregated/Multi-line DSL Service
This service is provided over AT&T/ASI DSL lines using our own upstream Internet bandwidth.
You will pay one bill through Raw Bandwidth for your ADSL service including ADSL circuits, and not have a separate charge on your phone bill for your ADSL with us. You continue to pay AT&T/Pacbell directly for the underlying telephone lines. Note Aggregated DSL does require an active phone account underlying each DSL line, but it can be the bare minimum measured residential phone service (typically $12-14/mo/ea including all fees and taxes), and the lines can be used for other voice/fax/dialup modem purposes at the same time they are used for ADSL. We are currently seeking enforcement of an AT&T/SBC merger condition requiring AT&T ASI to sell standalone ADSL service without an underlying voice phone service, but thus far AT&T is refusing to make wholesale standalone circuits available to independent ISPs. If/when available, we expect it will be a marginal cost less than the cost of full phone service; prices below are for line-shared ADSL circuits only.
Residential Aggregated DSL Service Pricing (effective 7/12/07 orders):| Speed (download/upload)* | Using # of lines | DSL Service Monthly Rate*+ |
Total Federal
USF (as of 8/14/06)*^ |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 768Kbps-3Mbps / 256-768Kbps | 2 |
$89.95 |
+$0.00 |
|
| 3-6Mbps / 768Kbps-1Mbps | 2 |
$109.95 |
+$0.00 |
|
| 6Mbps-12Mbps / 1-1.5Mbps | 2 | $179.95 | +$0.00 |
|
| Up to 24Mbps / Up to 3Mbps | Up to 4 | Contact us | +$0.00 |
*+ Aggregated DSL is presently available only
on a 12-month term commitment. Once the term commitment is completed
at a particular address and installation, the service continues on a
month-to-month basis at the same monthly rate. The worst-case early
termination charge is $200 per component DSL circuit, however moving service
can generally avoid any early termination charge by establishing
a new 12-month term at the new location.
*^ Federal Universal Service fund is added
to each plan, and may change from time to time, even during a term contract.
Please see our FUSF FAQ.
For Aggregated DSL, the FUSF rate is based on the the FUSF applied to
each individual ADSL circuit that we combine to create your service.
Raw Bandwidth reserves its right to add FCC, CPUC,
or government fees, assessments, and taxes imposed on bundled
telecommunications services or the Internet service itself.
ADDITIONAL 6-MONTH PREPAYMENT DISCOUNT OFFER: One-time/setup or change charges:
Additional IP addresses and subnet blocks are available as follows: * Subnets of 4-bits or larger must be justified based on
need. Additional Services Included and Available Your Aggregated DSL connection
comes with the same Included Additional Services and
Available Additional Services as are included or available with our
single-line
Residential ADSL service.
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I Get Aggregated DSL? | Service Details | Additional Services | Contact Us All terms and parameters of these accounts, both explicit
and implied, are subject to change without notice prior to the account being implemented,
and with reasonable notice (generally 30 days) after the account has been activated. Raw Bandwidth
may, in its discretion, "grandfather" advantagious terms and/or pricing for an
existing customer or group of customers. Questions? sales@rawbandwidth.com
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* Downstream and upstream speeds on these services are dependent on your distance from the serving
Central Office (CO) or Remote Terminal (RT) and other factors which effect the speed AT&T/ASI's ADSL equipment
can provide over your particular line. Potential speeds are
quoted in terms of DSL synch rate; subtract approximately 15% for
protocol overhead (mostly ATM) for actual throughput.
A discount of 10% for 6-month prepayment by check or money order
is presently available for prepayment of the base monthly DSL
charge (not available with credit card payment). Billing for new accounts
will be prorated to the calendar month for an approximately 6-month period;
existing accounts may elect this offer for the next regular bill, provided
account is fully current.
Additional services such as extra IP address, shell account, and domain
hosting must be paid through the same period, and most also receive this
discount. This offer is not in and of itself a term commitment; if
adjustments to the account are made mid-period, credits or billing will be
issued, and the terms of any seperate term agreement, if any, will be applied
as applicable; then, refund of credit balance, if any, is available for
closed accounts. Discount may be revoked if invoice becomes past due, or if
payment instrument on this or any previous payments made to us is returned
unpaid (ie. NSF check).
You are not obligated to continue with 6-month billing after a prepaid
period; simply request that we change your account to regular billing
without this discount. Note Federal USF is NOT discounted by this offer.
This offer may be modified or
withdrawn at any time and changes or withdrawal will not affect your
obligations to complete any applicable term commitments or comply with
other agreements with us; you may elect to prepay for up to 12-months
to ensure this discount is available for your full term commitment. This
offer is available to existing customers.
$60
WAIVED
with self-installation on 1-year term plan
** More than a Class C may be available on a negotiated basis.