On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Rich C wrote:
> Make sure you read the related discussion board too...puts the whole idea in
> perspective...
>
> I believe it's under "baloney" and the article title.
I'm afraid I don't see your point. A non-filtered copper pair would make
a great x-DSL link between houses. For example, right now in P'boro, a
128K SDSL link runs ~$120/mo.; splitting that cost with a neighbor (and
adding a pro-rated $600 for the new SDSL routers, and $30/mo. for the
service) would bring you to $100/mo. to defray the cost of the routers in
the first year (split evenly between the two parties, which probably isn't
how it would work), and $85/mo. thereafter. Sounds like a bargain to me.
If it weren't for the fact that I'm moving out of P'boro, I'd actually set
this up for some of my friends... (And what with all the DSL providers
that have gone under, I bet EBay has some wicked deals on compatible SDSL
modems, which would make this even easier to figure out.)
-Ken
P.S. Also bounced it off a hardware telecom engineer friend of mine, and
he was really impressed -- and saw no issues with the hardware side of
things. The damn 3.3KHz filter *does* mean, however, that it's probably
not viable for inter-CO communications. He did say that it would probably
be technically illegal, being that it would be reselling of a commercial
service (akin, I guess, to stealing a cable TV feed)... but I somehow
doubt that anyone doing this would get big enough to be noticed.
> Rich Cloutier
> President, C*O
> SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES
> www.sysupport.com
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> > Just saw this; if it came from Slashdot, my apologies, but I hadn't seen
> > it before, and it just strikes me as TooDamnCool:
> >
> > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html
> >
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