DSL Gotcha

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Shawn Tayler:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:05:07 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> professed:
> 
> > No, the distance thing isn't a farce.  Trust me.  Kinda like the 90
> > meters (300 feet) on ethernet.  I've installed DSLAMs and DSLs.  PITA,
> > but not farce.  Besides, you don't want to run servers on _Asymmetric_
> > DSL, only SDSL, HDSL, some of the other DSLs. 
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > 
> > David A. Bandel
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I should've been more exact, the farcical portion I was refering
> to was the "tariff" imposed wire limit that does not limit itself to 
> the length of the copper portion of the circuit.
> They get to include the fiber length all the way back to the main
> CO in their calculations.  Its a rip-off.

Huh? How does this work? I just don't understand.

Kurt
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