DSL (scary) question

[Brad De Vries]

--- Aaron Grewell <agrewell at uwb.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

The salesman was clear that this was not IDSL and that
the plan was a 768K up/256K down connection with 128K
guaranteed.  I currently have ISDN with 128K
connection but it would be nice to unload the phone
charges.

Thanks for the info.

Brad.

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