[ale] OT: Affordable ADSL for Paulding County?

[Chris Kilroy]

on the subject of BellSouth:

i just ordered my ADSL service

Chris:  And does this include a static IP address?
BellSouth:  OH YES! We give you a DYNAMIC IP address.

i mean DYNAMIC must be better than static, right?

Yes and i ordered anyway.  I actually live in a small beach community in Florida
(Crescent Beach, south of St. Augustine - which is itself nowhere) but that is
probably why i can get ADSL.  Because we are isolated from the infrastructure of a
real city, we have our own central office in crescent beach, which means i can get
ADSL!
pretty cool i say.

Take it easy,
Chris

Mike Fletcher wrote:

> >>>>> "Dow" == Dow Hurst <dhurst at ksumail.kennesaw.edu> writes:
>
>     Dow> these new subdivisions.  It is amazing how slow BellSouth is
>     Dow> in reacting to potential markets.  Does anyone know how much
>     Dow> it costs to build a new CO?  Thousands?  Millions?  Dow
>
>         BellSouth's actions are never amazing if you've worked there
> (that's one of the reasons why I work somewhere else now :).  Just
> remember Scott Addams (the Dilbert cartoonist) used to work for
> PacBell.  Everything that happens in Dilbert has probably at one time
> or another happened at all of the RBOCs.
>
>         As for CO cost, I'd guess it's on the order of around half a
> million (+/- another $250k maybe).  They're not cheap to build
> (redundant power, facility security, connecting the new facility into
> the phone network), and the equipment to go in them costs a large
> chunk of change as well.
>
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