In the wee hour of 08:28 PM 6/6/01 -0400, Thomas Fisher bequeathed such
tales as these:
> > One thing a lot of consumers are aware of, if you do not have
> > phone service
> > with one of the major companies, you can not get DSL service
> > in most cases.
> > I had to get a separate line-through Verizon, just for DSL
> > connection--still
> > not happy about it.
> > Jeff
>
>You're going to need two lines for DSL regardless which company you use,
>since the type of service is different than the normal phone service. (no
>dial tone) You may have only one line coming to your house from the pole,
>but it should split somewhere outside the house into your phone & DSL. I
>just used my old roommate's phone line for the DSL line. So the phone
>company technician only had to install the "splitter" at the box.
>You can have the splitter installed inside the house at the wall, but I've
>read that it can actually cause some minor problems with the clarity of the
>line. The line seems to be stronger if done when it enters the phone box
>from the pole.
>
>Or were you talking about needing to have a second line run from the utility
>pole to the house? If so, I can understand your complaint...
We don't need two lines up here in Canada, never heard of that one
ever. And no splitter's either, only buffers to control line distortion
between voice and DSL. Also in lower British Columbia the download is in
the neighborhood of 4mb/s, this is the fastest residential serviced DSL in
Canada and it looks like it in the US too.
Peter Kaulback
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