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Well...that's interesting. COVAD did the installation in Pottstown for our
company. We have a 768Kbps SDSL line when we originally ordered a 1.1 Mbps
line. Seems we're 300 feet too far along the line for 1.1. We're at 13,300
ft. They downgraded us to 768 kbps (which is good to 18K). After that, you
have to drop to 384kbps (65K feet).
How fast a line are your ordering?
If you are going with ADSL...make sure you aren't near any AM transmitters.
Seems they can degrade the performance of your ADSL line significantly.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Gregory T. Weber
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 6:28 PM
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Access
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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