Forge 2000 on Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:37:08 -0500 |
If there's no CO around, there's no CO. Sorry. I have three die-hard Comcast fanatics who are in varying stages of switching to DSL. Initially I got a lot of trash talk about how their burst rates were so far above mine.... Now I match their burst with my sustained (DSL is guaranteed bandwidth, while cable can be quite dog-slow if you start a transfer at the wrong moment), and my solid upstream remains roughly 3-4X their peak. Cable may be cheaper, but it's quickly becoming a 'you get what you pay for' market. - Rich > > > >I have a feeling that DCAnet's pretty good about this.) It's quite > >possible that DCAnet (well, Covad, actually; they are also a Covad > >reseller, aren't they?) has a beefier DSLAM in the (Verizon's) CO > >than Verizon does. They want to do this well, Verizon just wants to > >sucker AOL users into giving them their money. > > Ok.. So the Web DSL test sites tell me my line will not work. Where do I > begin to see if that is the final answer? Certainly not Verizon. Will > anyone "try it" to see?? I see this "DSL" as an incredible marketing mess > that COULD be very competitive to cable, but now with many cables going > fiber they will steal the whole package from the phone company. Many cable > companies are already offering digital phone services. What a shame. I > loath Comcast. > > Doug > > **************************** > * Doug Crompton * > * Richboro, PA 18954 * > * 215-431-6307 * > * * > * doug@crompton.com * > * wa3dsp@wa3dsp.ampr.org * > * http://www.crompton.com * > **************************** > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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