About The Little Garden

IP SERVICES

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INTRODUCTION:

The Little Garden (TLG) is a buyers club providing Internet connectivity in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Our prices are the cost of connectivity plus our reasonably low overhead. In exchange for these low prices, we expect members to be somewhat self-sufficient technically. Many members become involved in the operation of TLG, though this is not necessary.

We have Points of Presence (POPs) in San Francisco, Mountain View and Palo Alto. We have affiliates in other regions providing similar service. We are working on extending into other areas.

TLG provides high-quality, reliable basic IP connectivity via full-time SLIP or PPP, secondary Domain Name Service (DNS), and in some cases, address space. We provide you with the help necessary to get online. We don't provide shell accounts, shared, part-time IP, etc.

TLG places no restrictions on content or use of your connection, including reselling, "back door" hosts, etc. You are of course required to comply with any AUPs of any networks you communicate with or through and of course any applicable laws. Compliance with this is the member's responsibility.

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PRICES:

56K SERVICE PRICES:
    One-time installation fee (non-refundable) . . . . . . $400.
    Monthly connection fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $325.

T1 SERVICE PRICES:
    One-time installation fee (non-refundable) . . . . . . $500.
    Monthly connection fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $800.

Each member must provide their own CSU/DSU pair, and a 56K or T1 capable connection to their system (such as a router). Each member must also provide a standalone router at the TLG end or pay for a fraction of a multi-port router.

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OTHER HIGH-SPEED SERVICE:

We are more than willing to work out fair prices on other types of connections at other speeds, such as 64Kb/s ISDN, 200Kb/s radio, etc.

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LOW-SPEED DIAL-UP SERVICE PRICES:

TLG offers modem-based full-time IP using telephone lines and dialup-type modems. Additional information is provided near the end of this datasheet. Ask for further details.

    One-time installation fee (non-refundable) . . . . . . $250.
    Monthly connection fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $70.

The following list gives estimates of goods and services that the member must cover.

    (Probable telco one-time installation fees, total  . .  $70.
    (Probable monthly telco charges, total . . . . . . . .  $21.
    (Pair of v32bis/v42bis modems, retail  . . . . . . . . $400.

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PAYMENT DETAILS:

One-time installation fees, and member-supplied hardware must be provided before TLG initiates the connection.

Members are invoiced for monthly connect fees three months at a time. Net 15 days, unless otherwise arranged. Initial billing starts with the first full week following the connection completion, or three weeks from start of the installation, whichever comes latest.

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POSSIBLE TLG/MEMBER RESOURCE SHARING:

Under certain conditions, TLG may be willing to pay for the leased line to the customer's site, and a portion of the connect fee, if TLG can install a new POP at the member's site. Depending on various factors, this could significantly lower the cost to the member for IP services.

As more sites are connected to this new POP, the member housing the POP would receive a portion of each additional connection fee, effectively paying for bandwidth used.

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

The Little Garden
PO Box 410923
San Francisco CA 94141-0923
415-487-1902
email: info@tlg.org
www: http://tlg.org/
ftp: tlg.org
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Associated Networks:

Santa Cruz --

Santa Cruz Community Internet (scruz-net)
903 Pacific Ave. #203-A
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(408) 457-5050
info@scruz.net
Santa Cruz Community Internet serves the entirety of Santa Cruz County, CA.

scruz-net offers the following TCP/IP services:

scruz-net offers the following application services:

For more info on Scruz-net.

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Marin, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties --

North Bay Network
20 Minor Court
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 472-1600
Email: info@nbn.com

NBN offers the following TCP/IP services:

NBN offers the following application services:

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Oregon, southern Washington state --

RAINet
9501 SW Westhaven
Portland, OR 97225
(503) 297-8820
admin@rain.com

RAINet offers the following TCP/IP services:

RAINet offers the following application services:

When you are in RAINet's geographic area (Oregon and Southern Washington), RAINet offers free access to customers of other RGnet consortium networks, e.g. The Little Garden.

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