User manual

ISP: Internet Service Provider. Speakeasy is your ISP as we provide you the IP-layer of

your Internet connection (the portion of your service that connects your physical DSL,

T1, or Dialup line to Internet routing technologies), as well as value services and

support.

Latency:

Latency is a catchall term we use to describe slow broadband or dialup

service. Latency is literally a delay from when you send a request to any particular 48

Internet address/server, and when you receive a response (such as the web page

loading).

Line shared (line sharing):

Line shared service is the most common ADSL service

available. It is called "line sharing" because your DSL will literally share the same pair of

copper wires as your analog voice signal. Because the phone company can split the line

into these two separate channels of frequency, and there are filter devices that buffer the

DSL and the voice service, you can use the same line for fax, dialup, and voice while

you use your DSL service.

NAP:

NAP stands for "N"etwork "A"ccess "P"oint. Essentially, it is a massive data

connection that will tie a customer provisioned to it directly to our network hardware.

News:

Speakeasy uses this term to refer to Usenet service. Usenet is a collection of

user-submitted notes or messages on various subjects that are posted to servers on a

worldwide network. Each subject collection of posted notes is known as a newsgroup.

There are thousands of newsgroups and it is possible for you to form a new one. Most

newsgroups are hosted on Internet-connected servers, but they can also be hosted from

servers that are not part of the Internet. Usenet's original protocol was UNIX-to-UNIX

Copy (UUCP), but today the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is used.

POP:

POP stands for Point-Of-Presence, which is where your circuit and those of others

in your region are connected from the Covad backhaul network to the Internet. Here's

how the network map breaks down.