DSL (scary) question

[Aaron Grewell]

> 
> The phone companies tend to be very conservative with distances so it is 
> indeed possible that another ISP could reach the spot. That said, 
> however, speed and reliability is always a rapidly diminishing quantity 
> with distance and line quality. Some DSL equipment will reach 50k feet 
> with pristine wire - but you may be down to 128kbps long before getting 
> that far. And what most of us would think of as "DSL speeds" are rarely 
> attainable beyond, say, 20k feet.

Exactly.  This is probably 'IDSL' which is not only slow (128-144K) but 
expensive as well.