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Re: Yeah I pay $100 for SBC 6mbs said by ronpin:
SBC could own the entire broadband market with a 6mbs/$60 deal.
Not true. T00 many people are out of that range to recieve it. And what is worse people that are in spitting distance of a CO fine that their wires are miles from it.
Now if the distrance rqs were trippled with some new technology then cable would be running for the hills.
I remember one of the intents of adsl was to provide video. Now that cable companies are providing phone perhaps bells need to fight back with strang video services. 6m down is more than fast enough for a good mpeg4/divx stream.
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2 edits | said by Freezone:
T00 many people are out of that range to recieve it. And what is worse people that are in spitting distance of a CO fine that their wires are miles from it.
Actually most everywhere is already covered. The places
that will be out of range are mostly rural areas for the
most part and a few other non-rural areas but by far most
locations are now well within DSL range.
If you are in one of the few areas that still doesn't have
DSL available, you really are in the minority.
The thing you need to realize is that 7500 feet is only
between you and either the CO **OR** the RT.
RTs are currently just about everywhere and you see new
ones going up every day.
I happen to live in a small town with about 25 miles of
rural farmland between me and Houston and I am also more
than 13 miles wire distance to the CO yet I run at nearly
the maximum 6 Mbps .....
How is that?
Because while I am 13 miles from the CO, I'm less than
200 yards from the RT. Oh and that is just my RT. I've
got two other RTs less than 2 miles from my house.
People automatically assume the 7500 has to be their
distance from the phone company's central office (CO)
but that's not actually the case.
Within 10 miles of my house, I can name the locations
of more than 12 RT locations in every direction. It's
a no brainer to realize that you'd be well within 7500
feet no matter where you go in the area and remember
this is in fact a rural area so you'd expect the
coverage to be less than in the city.
The areas not covered are very few in number and growing
smaller as more and more RTs are deployed everywhere.
Now with that said, not all of the RTs currently
support the new 6MB profile. This means it still might
not be available to you but it has nothing to do with
your distance.
EDIT: The above is talking about SBC territory in Texas.
I don't know anything about the DSL coverages and deployment
in other states. |
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| The distance is a line distance. And this distance in the bells database is less than useless. And even with the rt too many customers are out o range. Actual numbers would be good here.
Bells already have the technology to increase distance, but they are too slow to deploy.
Imagine if the bells would not have been so slow with dsl just to protect the T1 market. I bet cable modems competition would not even be an issue. |
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 dslx_netopsLinux Is BetterPremium
join:2003-10-20
Canoga Park, CA | reply to Cybertoad
ahh but your wrong...
my whole neighborhood is between 14-30,000 feet from the co... with no rt available... i see pequals all the time of people just two far and the live in the middle of a city... i live in Orange county in a very very developed area, the distance factor is a huge issue |
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 HealbotPremium
join:2003-07-16
Vancouver, WA | reply to Cybertoad
I am 13000 Feet from my CO, NO RTs I can only get up to 784k/128k. Yeah like DSL is going anywhere here. vancouver is huge and only 1/3 of the people can get DSL. I still think cable is way better of keeping their speeds, DSL is way to much (for me). And SBC isnt everywhere which people thinks, people keep on telling me get SBC for 26.95 but nooo I cant get it..... As for DSL (covad) offers 3mb/384k for 150 bucks (I can't even get that even if I wanted to pay for it)! Comcast is upgrading to 3mbs for under 50 bucks.....
It has everything to do with your distance because you can be 3 miles from your RT then your dead in the water |
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I live in San Jose, CA and am almost 22k feet from my CO. The middle of Silicon Valley, and no hope of DSL. |
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