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I live in the Phoenixville area. Story I got from BA is that they can go out
12,000 feet with ADSL and Covad told me that they could go out 18,000 feet with
DSL. Voicenet, who is now providing ADSL as well as DSL (if I heard correctly)
confirmed this (12K max for ADSL and 18K max for DSL). This could explain why
Covad says they can do it while BA says they can't. Of course the farther away
the slower. Interestingly, out of all the folks at my ISP, Covad and BA, the
person who knew the most about DSL (and the politics involved) was the guy digging
up my front lawn.
Yes, I am in the process of getting DSL, but was told (by Covad) that I needed to
upgrade my copper so BA just ran a 6 pair wire up my front lawn (their cost ).
Thought the whole point was that it would run on existing copper, but oh well.
I need to get a couple of NICs, one for my wife's Windows 98 box and one for my RH
6.1 box. Any suggestions?
Greg
Tim Peeler wrote:
> Shit, think I may have touched it off... Anyway, I decided to check with covad
> for DSL and surprisingly they offer access to my residence... This comes as a
> complete shock to me since Bell Atlantic, Rcn, and Concentric say it's not
> available to my area yet... I'm waiting on a response from Concentric and
> covad as to whether my residence IS or ISN'T capable of handling DSL. If Bell
> Atlantic would provide ADSL to me I'd have no problem, I can configure my linux
> box after they get done playing with windoze. If anyone knows what kind of
> service I could expect from cable modems, isdn, or (I think I recall someone
> mentioning this last time) wireless it'd be appreciate.
>
> Thanks for the info so far.
> Tim
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