Re: [PLUG] Re: Verizon DSL

[Jeff Weisberg <jaw+plug@tcp4me.com>]

| Your phone line connects you only to a punch-down block (well, a
| more modern equivalent, since it's all digital these days) at your
| phone company's nearest CO. From there, if the line in question is

you give the telco too much credit. 

your phone line is either:

- old-fashioned wire (analog) from your home to the CO.

- old-fashioned wire to a device called a SLC[1] then digital to the CO.
  in which case, you will not qualify for DSL, and your modem connect
  speeds may[2] suffer.

| You could only use an ISP with an existing arrangement with Verizon,
| as it involves the ISP having hardware in Verizon's CO. (Note that


the DSL provider[3] has equipment[4] in the CO. The ISP does not (unless
said ISP is also a DSL provider (but such a case is rare)).


	--jeff



[1] Subscriber Loop Carrier. pronounced "slick". sometimes called a DLC,
    (Digital Loop Carrier). A phone line multiplexer. generally located in
    a small hut, cabinet, or underground vault.

[2] depending on implementation details.

[3] eg. Verizon "the DSL provider" division, Covad, NAS

[4] a DSLAM


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