Kardinal
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Re: DSL Installation
said by NeonFire  :Also, once you get your DSL modem and the service set up and the username/password entered in the modem's UI, can you bring the modem and filters to someone else's house and use your own internet account with their phone line? Each line needs to be set up to provide DSL service. There is specific equipment, called a DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer), that has to be attached to a line to allow the broadband to work. If the "someone else's home" has DSL enabled on the line, your modem will work. However, only one modem can work on a line at a time so you would have to unplug theirs to use yours (so a router might be easier, as long as they don't mind sharing).
This is a pretty good high-level explanation of how DSL works from howstuffworks.com -- well worth a read if you are interested.
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NeonFire
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| I'm finding it hard to understand if you mean the other person has to have DSL set up (as in paying for it) or if they just need to be in an area that works with it. Kinda stupid but is the DSLAM physically attached to the line or is it located at the CO? |
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Kardinal
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| said by NeonFire :I'm finding it hard to understand if you mean the other person has to have DSL set up (as in paying for it) or if they just need to be in an area that works with it. Kinda stupid but is the DSLAM physically attached to the line or is it located at the CO? If they aren't paying for it, then the line won't be set up for it. The DSLAM has ports that are attached, one per line, to customers who want to use the service. SLAMs can be located either in the main CO for the area or out in the network to get them closer to customers (pedestals, remote switches, attached to poles, etc).
If a customer isn't paying for DSL, chances are their line won't have a port attached to it. Unlike dialup, a DSL connection is based on equipment that is attached to the customer's line rather than equipment that is connected to vial dialing to it.
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