DSL Gotcha

[Shawn Tayler]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:34:04 -0400 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
professed:

> Quoth Shawn Tayler:

> > 
> > 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.
> 

Exactly.

When I was looking into wideband service at my present home QTH, I check
into DSL first.  I was told that since I was 17,957ft ( I looked up the old
reply) from the central office, I was not eligable for DSL.  Well, that
distance is to the main CO downtown.  There is a smaller, and closer CO,
that has a DSLam, about 8000ft from me, wire distance.  Also my present
telco service transitions to copper less than 5000ft away.  I had no
trouble getting ISDN and now a Frac-T service when I looked into it.  There
is no DSlam at the fiber drop so I can sort of understand them not wanting
the extra expense.  The rub was that they get to include the length of the
fiber in the distance spec on any DSL circuit they install around here.  

Shawn