On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:48 AM, mike wilson wrote:
All the providers I checked asked for a phone number and/or an
address on
their web site.
That's to give them a rough idea. After that, an individual test
will be done (they can do this through a phone call) to check if
you are _really_ within range of the nearest node. Even if you
aren't (or, to be kind, let's say you are just on the border) they
may still try to sell you a service. Cable (which is really fibre
optics) doesn't have this problem. Cable's problem is usually
customer relations.....
Or the question of whether cable's been strung to your neighborhood.
In more rural areas of the San Francisco Bay Area, it would cost
thousands of dollars to have cable strung to reach your home. A place
I lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains, less than 20 miles from my
present apartment, still has no cable access. Phone lines are already
in place and the phone company has installed the DSL switching, so
broadband access to that location is either aDSL or satellite link.
Television there is ground-based RF or satellite dish too.
Godfrey
