Piggie
I Actually use Windstream
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join:2005-11-23
Orange Springs, FL
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| reply to cothrom
Re: Not available in Spartanburg, SC
Exactly I do feel "lucky" to have 3m.
I can say that Alltel promised me DSL for 7 years, coming next year. Soon it was the biggest joke in our town and those of us that needed more had to turn to DirecWay (they now totally suck don't consider them).
Once the company was reorganized Windstream had DSL in my town within 5 months of the transition. Not just my town but all the little towns around me. Now what I don't know is if the company change had not happened was it in the works to happen under Alltel anyway.
If you go back into why sometimes I am so bitter it was the way things happened.
Back in the 1990's people were getting two or three phone lines for modems. There was all but zero growth in my town, so it wasn't new construction, but Alltel was running out of lines to my side of town.
So in 1999 they put in the Pegram remote. My modem speeds went from 43K to 19 to 26K. I was upset and so was my neighborhood. We bought extra lines for our modems to have our modem line speed cut in half because they over sold lines.
At that point was when Alltel started it's only 6 months to a year and you will have DSL so relax.
Then in 2003, they feed the Pegram remote with a piece of fiber with hundreds of whiskers. Enough for a lot of bandwidth, huge.
Still no DSL. So we were fiber feed to within 1800 line feet of my house and all I had was 26k modem. And that went on till late Nov 2006. Three years to actually take advantage of the money they spent on installing fiber.
I figured great! I so close to Pegram the DSLAMs could feed me 8m if it were offered.
But again, NOOOOOOOOOOOO,,,,,
A piece of fiber big enough to feed all of FL to my remote. DSLAMs installed.
Again the gottcha, they didn't spend the money to convert the fiber to more than T1's or the DSLAMs were too old to take anything but T1. Causing an expensive piece of gear to be needed to convert DS3 circuits to many T1's to feed the DSLAM cabinet.
So it's not the fiber or the DSLAM that can't run 6m, but the conversion equipment.
Now guessing how long it took to go from 26k to 3m is why I say I scheduled my ADSL2 upgrade for 2015.
End of Rant.
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| Speedstream 4200 Modem - 3m/384 plan | W98-W2KSP4-XPSP2 - All AMD | Buffalo WHR G54S with Tomato 1.13 | 3 downstream switches feeding 6 total clients (no wireless) | Including the Data port on the side of my neck | |
