On Tue, Sep 30, 2003, Brad De Vries wrote: ... >I hadn't heard that you could get DSL beyond the 15K >ft range (except with IDSL). I appreciate your >recommendation to get customer references and further >guarantees (I have a guarantee of 128K but I don't >know if it's up, down or both.) I guess I should at >least continue talking with them.
If you're dealing with a company, they might try talking to the company that provides their dialtone. We're working with a company in Olympia Washington that's beyond the range for DSL and cable isn't an option so were using an Eartlink satellite connection which made up for being slow and erratic by being relatively expensive. They're in the process of switching all their phone lines to a non ILEC provider that's bringing in a T1 line, and will be splitting off six DS0s (6 x 64K) for the Internet, while using other channels for their voice lines. The savings from the voice lines and dropping the Earthlink account result in a savings even after paying the $135/month for the ISP feed. Going with a fractional T1 gives considerably more reliable service as the service level guarantees on the T1 are a couple of hours while a DSL may be down for a week before the telco gets around to fixing it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.'' EDWARD ABBEY (1927-1989) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
