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strosien
join:2000-07-08
Livonia, MI
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Re: NorthPoint yes, Covad no -- question
FWIW...Maybe it says this somewhere above.. but I had Northpoint and WAS lineshared. And this was with one of the 3com SDSL Copermountain type modems. No new cable from the pole to the house, they just tapped it off the dmarc with CAT5 over to my PC. No filters or nothing inside the house (perhaps in the Telco side of the dmarc).
15400 feet from CO based on estimating tools. IDSL only available from Covad. So...off to Time Warner I go...reluctantly.
FWIW...
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PatientGuy
I'M Way Deep Into Nothing Special
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join:2000-12-11
Arlington, VA
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| All this is really kind of moot now but interesting none the less. It is good info for those folks who are having trouble getting service because the ISPs say that their phone line isn't up to par for DSL service. If NP serviced you there is a good pair there. You may have had an extra pair running to you house already. They didn't need to do a drop for me either. Only really old installation drops have less than two pair most have four or six nowadays. If you have a modern network interface box (dmarc) you almost surely have multiple pairs. If your service was lineshare there had to be filters somewhere You can open the telco (or user) side of the dmarc and look to see if what that CAT 5 was connected to. There is nothing scary in there just wire and lugs. Usually if you don't have individual filters on each phone your dmarc will have a filter plugged in where the phone line test jack modules go on the user side.
In reality T.W. cable will probably be fine. Some folks have fantastic cable service. Have you checked DSL Reports to see what people in your area have said about T.W. Whatever it is it sure beats the hell out of dialup.:) | |
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