On 11/13/2004 03:58 PM, Robert Hemus wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:26, David Bandel wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:07:21 -0800, Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/12/2004 05:54 PM, Robert Hemus wrote:
Mentors, our local telephone company, Siskiyou Telephone-sisqtel.net, is installing optic cable to the house. I assume this means digital service. My 56k modem runs at the very best 48000, rarely. Usually it runs at 45xxx or 46xxx. Will the modem run closer to the 56k with the digital hook-up? I haven't had time to try the results of my .mvw inquiry. I'm working on thhe old homestead so we can sell it and get closer to civilization. 75 miles to nearest hospital, 110 miles to a hospital that can do heart caths, etc. When I get a chance, I'll need more help on filding the dlls.
anything in the mid to upper 45kb is damn good. 56k is the theoretical maximum which is absolutely impossible unless you're under ideal conditions that never occur in the real world. If you're getting fiber cable to the house, why can't you just get DSL?
You're joking, right? DSL (no matter what form you're talking, Adsl, Sdsl, Hdsl) all travel from the DSLAM to the DSL modem over COPPER (only adsl can share the line with voice). To travel over fiber requires converters at each end, very _expensive_ converters.
But there are other technologies that can make use of fiber without the converters.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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Nope, no joke. I don't know where the telephone company got their
money, but optic cable is what they are doing. They have buried a gang
of 4" pvc and even more 2" poly pipe and pulling optic cable through all
of it. As for DSL. My 56k costs $20 over my phone bill. To get DSL I
need to put out $49 more for the DSL plus another price (I think it's
about $15) for another line. Comes to $70 a month. Great 'phone
company. Great service, etc, but they are the only one in town, area. The area is about 40 miles up the Klamath River and 40 more down the
river and up a few miles several of the big creeks where people live.
$49/month is what i'm paying for DSL, and i think that's reasonable, although these days i could prolly do somewhat better if i shopped around. But my service from PacBell (SBC) has been fairly reliable (only 1 two day outage in the past 3 years), so i'd rather not fix what isn't broken. Granted, i'm not out in the boonies by any measure (about 30 miles from SF as the crow flies).
I'm kinda surprised that there aren't any other companies trying to eblow in on the local phone/DSL market there, even if you are far away from civilization as it were. Who is your current provider?
If you are interested go to http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/. We're pretty far out in the boonies.
You're somewhere past Weed?
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