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this fee. Regardless of any mention to this fee as a tax, this is a non-negotiable fee from

the Federal government that all customers will be charged.

Good Faith Extension:

GFE is used to describe a temporary suspension of the

Speakeasy billing cycle, due to extraordinary reasons.

Hosting:

Speakeasy refers to all domain-name services as “hosting” packages. We are

hosting a domain name, or a domain name service, that you own.

Hub:

In general, a hub refers to a central gathering point for any traffic or service, at

which point these gathered entities forward out to various connection points off of the

main hub. For Internet connectivity’s sake, a hub is a small piece of equipment that

connects directly to the bridge or router to run the connection to several computers on

your network.

IDSL:

Integrated Services Digital Network. It uses existing ISDN technology and

equipment to increase the data transfer over a long, bad, or noisy line. While IDSL will

technically work up to 30,000 ft, our vendors

only support IDSL on lines under 25,000 ft.

IDSL is one of the only cases where electronics are used to benefit the installation, using

repeaters to volt the DSL signal to make it travel the degraded line, and the Adtran unit

which de-volts the signal before it enters your internal wiring.

ILEC:

Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier. The ILECs are the primary phone companies

in the country, and are identified as such by the FCC, based on owning a controlling

share of the telephony customers, equipment, and infrastructure. Speakeasy works with

CLECs that have contracts with the following ILECs to provide data services:

o SBC: Pac Bell, Southwestern Bell, and Ameritech

o Verizon (East and West)

o Sprint

o Qwest

o SNET

o Bell South

Internet:

The Internet is a network of networks, linking computers to computers that

speak the same language (TCP/IP protocols). Conceptually, the Internet can be

visualized as a map, connecting specific houses and businesses by roads, freeways,

and highways, with travelers in individual cars.

IP:

An IP (internet protocol) address is like a phone number. You can get one or more

assigned to you and, so long as you follow certain criteria, they can follow you around

from place to place. People who have your phone number can call you from anywhere in

the world. Likewise, people who know your IP can attempt to "call" your computer. This

will not do much good generally, unless the computer knows that it's supposed to

respond to such things. Like a phone number, an IP has smaller parts called "octets", so

called because each segment is eight bits long. Because of this, none of the numbers

can be higher than 255. Any higher, and it takes more than 8 bits to store the number.

Also like, a phone number, the different parts of an IP tell computers where to send their

traffic.