Re: [PLUG] DCANet DSL Offerings (WAS: Speakeasy/COVAD outages yesterday)

[Ben Dugan <bdugan@curdes.com>]

William H. Magill wrote:
>

> Unless things have changed in recent years, COVAD buys or leases
> "dry- pairs" from Verizon and then connects them to their own DSL
> equipment.

What does it tell you if the DCA guy says "The Covad outages experienced
in the past few weeks were related to a DS3 problem in one of the
Philadelphia COs"? That is: (a) What does "DS3" refer to? and (b) If its
in the CO, does that mean its Verizon's problem, or could the Covad
equipment actually be located in the CO?

> DCAnet on the other hand is simply reselling Verizon DSL.

And they're simply reselling Covad, too, right?

> "Dry pairs" are a tariffed service. DSL is not.

Ok.

> Both COVAD and DCAnet are still dependent upon Verizon to "roll a 
> truck" if there is a problem with the "last mile" wire (which they
> have to pay for). In COVAD's case, they can send their own tech out
> first to verify the problem is in the local-loop before calling
> Verizon.

Can Covad go into the CO and swap boards or otherwise troubleshoot stuff
there?

> DCAnet simply calls Verizon. (Both of them go through the
> dog-and-pony nonsense of playing with your Windows PC before they
> even bother to admit there is a problem.)

On this point I have to say: Speakeasy has been very good about not
putting me through useless exercises. When I tell them I have no DSL, it
only takes them a few minutes to confirm it. And they don't check my
Windows credentials or anything either.

Thanks for your info Mr. Magill.

Ben
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