--- Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
