[ale] [OT] dsl throughput

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim
> Watts
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 13:50
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] [OT] dsl throughput
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Quick question: Is changing my dsl provider likely to change my
> throughput? I suspect not since my distance from the CO isn't changing.
> Just want to know if there are other variables I'm not considering.
> 
> Thanks.

Maybe. Lets say you are using a CLEC and they are connecting you 10,000 feet back to the CO (central office) and you change to ILECs DSL. The ILEC has a DSLAM 1,000 feet from your house and that is what they connect you to instead of the CO. You would potentially get better bandwidth.

By law ILECs have to share the resources in the CO with the CLECs but they are not required to share the DSLAM. I have also seen it the other way around where the CLEC provides better bandwidth because they installed a DLSAM and the ILEC can't give you DSL at all because you're to far from the CO.

It used to be that all the vendors used to use the same database to determine your distance from the CO so they would tell you on the web page you weren't eligible but if you called an engineer he would look it up in his database and it would tell him that there was a DSLAM within range. I haven't ordered DSL in many years so I don't know if it has gotten any better.

keith


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