Re: [PLUG] Home Networking Question

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 02:26  PM, Steven Tomcavage wrote:
> The only option listed is SDSL.
>
> The default list ("Classic") of available pagkages go from 1.5 Mbps
> up/down at $299/month to 384 Kbps up/down at $149/month. But if I 
> click on
> the "Sysadmin" or "Gamer" categories, I get a price at 384 Kbps 
> up/down of
> $119/month.
>
> Why would ASDL not appear in my list of options? As far as I can tell, 
> I'm
> within ASDL distance.

You may not live in an area with "hard copper" between you and the CO. 
SDSL tends to be offered in areas which are served by remote T1 lines. 
A lot of the Apartment complexes and similar "dense" housing 
developments have those big-green boxes sitting outside (or in the 
basement). They represent what is effectively a remote frame with 
T-service from there back to the CO multiplexing all of the lines in 
the box.

As for using a wireless setup over 3 floors -- it works fine. I live in 
a big old victorian row house in West Phila (12 foot ceilings). I have 
an original Apple graphite Airport Base Station sitting in my basement. 
My son uses the iBook throughout the house, and camps out with it in 
his room on the third floor, at the opposite end of the house from the 
Base Station. Never had any problems. It also covers the backyard 
nicely. (And I can use it at my neighbors on either side as well.) I 
also have a wireless connected flat-pannel iMac on the first floor in 
the dining room.  I actually have a second, pre-wireless connection to 
the third floor. It's an ethernet over fibre link that I threw out the 
window and pulled in through the door. It happens to be so old that the 
bloody media converters cost almost as much as the iMac!!!

I have DCAnet (Verizon) "professional" DSL. 1.5x376.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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