[aclug-L] Re: High-speed server access

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As some one else pointed out, your ADSL service will be just as good (if not
better due to line testing that is done) as your current voice service!

So if you have allot of troubles with your voice line.. then you will have
the equal number of troubles with your ADSL service.... But the one
difference that I found is.. you report troubles to the DSL service they
have bent over backward to clear the line troubles!!  They use a different
(newer) set of tools to test the copper lines and can find errors, line
troubles that the voice service does not pick-up.

One other thing to point out, cheap / older phones seem to pick up the data
signal [sounds like line noise] that newer phones do not. I have three
'Lined' phones and two 'Cordless' phones, two of lined phones have a
background noise while the rest of the phones are very clear! (I was told
that it had something to do with the voice coil used in these phones??)

--David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl D Cravens" <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 8:20 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: High-speed server access


> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:
>
> > The ADSL *lines* are available in Wichita.
>
> Great!  Now if SouthWind will get their end working...
>
> > The only ISP in Wichita currently offering ADSL service is SWB.
>
> How bad is this?  Anybody know how well they're connected in Wichita
> and how reliable their connection is?  I'm not interested in *any*
> services except connectivity (if SW will keep my secondary DNS until I can
> move back to them).
>
> I'd be willing to switch to them temporarily ($75 charge for breaking the
> 1-year contract with SWB) until SW offers DSL service if they aren't
> absolutely terrible.  I'm paying $180 a month for 33.6k of bandwidth...
> I'd move to ADSL even if it weren't an increase in bandwidth just to save
> $100 a month.  Even after hookup charges, it'd only take me three months
> to realize a savings.
>
> --
> Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> You can tell the nature of a man by the words he chooses.
>    -Dr. Ed Cole
>
>
>