The arrival of cable modem technology and the DOCSIS standard are breakthrough events in Internet access that everyone has been waiting for.

By permitting data to transmit over your television cable instead of your telephone line, a cable modem can download the same data 100 to 200 times faster than a 28.8 or 14.4 Kbps telephone modem*. In fact, the cable modem's throughput capacity is significantly greater than ISDN or even the high-speed T1 lines that many people use at work.

In most residential online settings, the telephone modem with its 14.4 or 28.8 Kbps bandwidth is the limiting factor in data download speeds. The telephone modem creates a bottleneck that slows the download. But, with a cable modem and its amazing 10 Mbps of bandwidth, the limiting factor is your Internet service provider's 1.5 Mbps T1 connection to the Internet. That means your downloads will continue to increase in speed as service providers upgrade their connections to the Internet.

The following diagrams illustrate the speed differential between conventional telephone modem Internet access and access via new Qwest Choice™ OnLine!

Thanks to the added access speed of Qwest Choice OnLine, there's no need to surf with graphics turned off or to avoid slow loading web sites altogether. And, advanced multimedia plug-ins for audio, video and graphics usage can be downloaded and enjoyed in seconds instead of minutes or hours.

Imagine how much more you'll see when you're not waiting for slow downloads. Imagine how much more you'll enjoy the time you spend online.

^{*Qwest Choice OnLine cable modem service transmits on a 10 megabit per second shared and segmented data network. Actual throughput speed depends on the number of simultaneous users and the amount of data being transported. Qwest Choice OnLine cannot control how quickly the data travels to its destination or from its source due to differing transmission speeds of the content sites. Qwest Choice OnLine is available in western Omaha. Some restrictions apply.}

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