[ale] OT- Transition to fast access

[Mike Panetta]

Just to clerify his post that it does work...  I am in Dacula (where the
origional poster of the question lives) and I have DSL via mspring, and
it DOES work, at an almost guaranteed rate (my guarantee not msprings or
bellsouths) at 150KB/s+.  This of course depends on where I am
connecting to, but its almost always that fast.  BTW, 150KB/s is
1200Kb/s, or ~1.2Mb/s.  

The only reason I can think that it works is this:  I am less then the
required max distance from a "telco fibre box thingy" (I do not know the
technical name for it, but they are the brownish beige boxes you
sometimes see on the side of the road).  This box takes a fibre line
from the real telco and redistributes it to copper at the box, so my
effective distance (copper distance) from the telco could be as little
as 1500 feet.  I am not sure which box I am connected to, but I do know
that there are several in Dacula which I notice on the side of the road
while driving around.

This is why my DSL works (I think).

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 14:23, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > From: F. Grant Robertson [mailto:f.g.robertson at alexiongroup.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 5:10 PM
> >
> >> Yes, I think it is a waste of time - I don't even think
> >> they'd attempt an install at that distance.
> 
> > Not so fast there...  I'm _at_ 36,500 feet, and this email
> > will go out over my DSL at 256k up/1.5 down. Depends on what
> > equipment is in the area.
> 
> No offense, but I highly doubt it.  Every distance requirement I've ever
> seen for ADSL is a *maximum* of 18,000 ft from the CO.  Anything more and
> they won't even try - much less give you 1.5Mb down.  ADSL is very distance
> sensitive, so if you are at 17,500 ft, there's no way you'll get 1.5Mb
> speeds.
> 
> Maybe you're using some kind of new implementation or technology, but I
> would think some of us here would have heard about it before now...
> 
> > If Bellsouth's fast access site says you qualify, you can
> > get something reasonable.
> 
> Yes, but to qualify, you must be within 18,000 ft.  Are you sure you're not
> at 3,650 ft?
> 
> Charles
> 
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