Brendan
Warr Guitar is here
join:2000-07-14
Littleton, CO
|  reply to Rob Froelich
Re: DSL - from the installer
It's too bad that broadband isn't being deployed.. even to metropolitan areas, such as Colorado Springs, Colorado, where I'm located. However, I am eligible for IDSL (not exactly my definition of broadband.. basically two 56k modems linked). I ordered IDSL from PhoenixDSL, and waited a grand total of FOUR MONTHS for my *wonderful* telco, Qwest, to tell me that they are out of facilities. So much for broadband in Colorado. Maybe if I wait another 10-20 years, broadband _might_ be available.
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wesm
tmb.org
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join:1999-07-29
Lewisville, TX
|  As someone whose friend was stuck with a 56k modem before IDSL became available, I can tell you that IDSL is a far sight better than "two 56k modems linked." For one, you get the benefits of DSL (always on, line sharing [usually]), and its better than the (theoretical maximum) of 112k that two 56k's would provide.
As for "not being deployed.. even to metropolitan areas, such as Colorado Springs, Colorado," I don't think most companies regard that as a major metro area. Usually, those are the ones that you hear about regularly, such as New York, Dallas, Chicago, San Fran, etc... |
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Brendan
Warr Guitar is here
join:2000-07-14
Littleton, CO
| You don't understand, Colorado Springs is a city of 800,000 people.. it's not a rural area. And, it's located only 70 miles south of Denver, Qwest's headquarters. It's the second largest city in Colorado. The point being, there's absolutely no reason for this entire city not to have DSL (except for a certain monopolistic telco).
About IDSL, it delivers at 144k, approximately 2.5 times that of a 56k modem. It's basically ISDN that uses all three pair and isn't dialup. Big deal... I'll stick with this 56k modem until something more convincing actually makes it to my area, which will be quite awhile I'm thinking.
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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| ISDN/IDSL only uses one pair. However, you cannot line-share it as you can with ADSL, you'd need another pair for voice.
I would wholeheartedly agree that it's far better than two 56k modems combined. A 56k modem only gets about ~42k, and even then it usually suffers from a lot of retrains and high latency. ISDN-56 was WAY faster especially for web browsing.
If you can get IDSL at a reasonable price I'd go for it. |
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