Nuke
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Ava, MO |
Nuke
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2019-Sep-16 5:17 pm
Look What Just Appeared by My Driveway! A DSLAM!
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I live a few miles from the middle of nowhere, Missouri with no internet options except for satellite. Saw some CenturyLink techs doing something at the end of my driveway. When I came back from work, I saw a shiny new DSLAM! It's an Adtran Total Access 1148V VDSL2 OSP DSLAM -- 48 possible ports of chewy, possibly VDSL2, goodness! I know there are many, many variables in play, but say that you were CenturyLink and you installed one of these. How long might it be until the DSL is activated? Hope my line, which runs about half a mile back to our house and was buried a couple of decades ago, will work so I can dump Hughesnet. Other than putting my info in the "Let me know when DSL is available" tool on CL's website, is there anything else I should do to ensure I know when it spins up? Keep a box of donuts in the car and make friends by passing them out if I see a CenturyLink tech? |
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 billaustinthey call me Mr. Bill
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Plan on six months for it to go live. It may be faster, it just depends on what else they need to do to bring it online. |
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Does CenturyLink offer internet in your area at all? or POTS |
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Nuke
join:2019-09-16
Ava, MO |
Nuke
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2019-Sep-16 11:32 pm
Our POTS is with CenturyLink. Do they offer Internet? A few miles away, yes. |
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Re: Look What Just Appeared by My Driveway! A DSLAM!said by billaustin:Plan on six months for it to go live. It may be faster, it just depends on what else they need to do to bring it online. Agreed. No bigger-view picture or led lamps shown of the mDSLAM, so best guess is the same as yours; around six months. |
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Nuke
join:2019-09-16
Ava, MO |
Nuke
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2019-Nov-4 10:53 pm
Two of the three LED lamps are now on: PWR & NETW, but not CUST. C'mon, CL...gimmie that DSL!  |
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Nuke
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2019-Nov-17 11:47 pm
YEAH! My Loop Qual finally went GREEN and I was able to place an order.
CAF II location
Showing VDSL2 (40M/2M) and ADSL2+ (15M/750k) available here.
Ordered on 11/16 and the change order adding the VDLS2 has a due date of 12/11. Thought it would be faster than 3 weeks, but I'm still happy it's finally available! |
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brad152
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2019-Nov-18 12:02 am
said by Nuke:YEAH! My Loop Qual finally went GREEN and I was able to place an order.
CAF II location
Showing VDSL2 (40M/2M) and ADSL2+ (15M/750k) available here.
Ordered on 11/16 and the change order adding the VDLS2 has a due date of 12/11. Thought it would be faster than 3 weeks, but I'm still happy it's finally available! Congrats! That will make a huge difference in your usability for sure! |
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If the DSLAM is VDSL2 capable, why do they not offer 40 down and 5 up? |
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said by chamb267:If the DSLAM is VDSL2 capable, why do they not offer 40 down and 5 up? I've noticed in Ex-Embarq/Sprint markets they tend to be odd with what's offered. To the OP, ask the installer if you can get higher upload (they can manually set it, and it's the same price for 5 vs 2) But being that close, you may even be able to get 80/10 or 140/20 if the installer is nice and makes a few calls  |
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KS/MO/NE/IA 'region' does not share the same profiles that other regions have. Primarily due to this being Embarq/Sprint territory from yonks ago.
KS/MO should have the following VDSL2 profiles available (as per a field tech i talked to a while back): 15/1, 20/2, 25/2, 40/2. I've yet to come across a 40/5 or pair-bonded profile in this area. I believe Columbia MO is an outlier to the listed speeds due to Prism. |
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My thoughts also. Im 3000 feet from dslam and have 40/20 bonded. |
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to Brett C
Here's what a loop qual on the TN shows: |
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that my current speed atm the 40mb. |
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What is CenturyLink trying to do with the keeping of upload at 2 rather than the 5 that will work fine? Are they trying to stay under the 3 upload that qualifies the area for the minimum broadband speeds in order to get more federal money for upgrades. |
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Nuke
join:2019-09-16
Ava, MO |
Nuke
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2019-Nov-24 12:36 pm
SUCCESS! After 14 years of waiting, I finally have DSL at my house! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Yeah! Granted, it's only 40M/2M and they sent me a C1100T modem (which I understand isn't the best, but it's OK so far), but this is WAY better than satellite. So to follow up on my original question: In this particular instance, it took about 2 months from DSLAM installation to live service. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go frivolously use up some data without having to worry about data caps. (Yes, I know CL DSL has that 1TB thing... ) |
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nuke on 1tb that soft. i already blew thru that last week. |
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Now you understand - "Any terestrial broadband is better than satellite" |
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pvtpilot94System
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join:2001-11-23
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By the looks the DSLAm is located in a rural area, and you can get speeds faster than I can and I live in town (in Ohio) and I have centurylink also. Wish they would do some upgrades to the CO down the street. Specturm is now in front of the house and it looks to run about the same price but starting speeds at 100 |
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said by pvtpilot94:By the looks the DSLAm is located in a rural area, and you can get speeds faster than I can and I live in town (in Ohio) and I have centurylink also. Wish they would do some upgrades to the CO down the street. Specturm is now in front of the house and it looks to run about the same price but starting speeds at 100 CenturyLink's Ohio infrastructure has never been good, Sprint seemed to like running T1's everywhere and CL just never went back and replaced things with fiber. If you can get anything else in ohio, then do it as an easy way to put that. |
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Where you get this screenshot? Is there someone here who can fix loop call |
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said by Technicholas:Where you get this screenshot? Is there someone here who can fix loop call There's nothing to be fixed. In that particular part of the country, those are the profiles that are loaded into the system. The Ex-Qwest area profiles do not seem to make it over, which is sad considering they could easily be offering at least 5-10Mbps upload to the OP. |
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This is so sad. Anytime a DSLAM has VDSL2 capability, and they can offer 25 down or more on a single pair, they should provide 5 up. Why this is not done nationwide just does not make sense.
25/5, 40/5, 60/5 should be the norm EVERYWHERE. Also, if they offer bonding at the DSALM, then they can offer 10 up.
This all assumes the customer is close enough to the DSLAM to get at least 25 down. Why have the old limited profiles at DSLAMS that are capable of faster speeds?
Today, 1 up is just horrible, 2 up is much better but do not try uploading much video. 5 up is what everybody really needs to solve almost all issues. |
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said by brad152:said by pvtpilot94:By the looks the DSLAm is located in a rural area, and you can get speeds faster than I can and I live in town (in Ohio) and I have centurylink also. Wish they would do some upgrades to the CO down the street. Specturm is now in front of the house and it looks to run about the same price but starting speeds at 100 CenturyLink's Ohio infrastructure has never been good, Sprint seemed to like running T1's everywhere and CL just never went back and replaced things with fiber. If you can get anything else in ohio, then do it as an easy way to put that. I agree. I take care of a remote broadcasting site in a CenturyLink area which is fed via internet from a studio in another county. The max speed offered in the area is 10/.768 and it drops packets like crazy between 7-11 pm every night. I figured it has to be an overloaded T1 backhaul from the DSLAM. I don't know why it's overloaded because Spectrum is available in the area served by that DSLAM. I'm surprised there are any CL customers left in that area given that's the case. The station owner won't pay for construction cost to get Spectrum extended to the tower to get decent service. |
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dcshobby
Premium Member
2019-Dec-6 12:27 pm
Spectrum doesn't use DSLAM's or share backhaul with Centurylink. Spectrum is a coaxial service and the last mile is served by fiber fed cable nodes connected back to a CMTS at their headend. |
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said by dcshobby:Spectrum doesn't use DSLAM's or share backhaul with Centurylink. Spectrum is a coaxial service and the last mile is served by fiber fed cable nodes connected back to a CMTS at their headend. I am aware that they are two different networks. Not conflating the two, just pointing out that brad152 is spot on in his assessment of how lousy CL is in Ohio. |
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said by SlabBulkhead:said by brad152:said by pvtpilot94:By the looks the DSLAm is located in a rural area, and you can get speeds faster than I can and I live in town (in Ohio) and I have centurylink also. Wish they would do some upgrades to the CO down the street. Specturm is now in front of the house and it looks to run about the same price but starting speeds at 100 CenturyLink's Ohio infrastructure has never been good, Sprint seemed to like running T1's everywhere and CL just never went back and replaced things with fiber. If you can get anything else in ohio, then do it as an easy way to put that. I agree. I take care of a remote broadcasting site in a CenturyLink area which is fed via internet from a studio in another county. The max speed offered in the area is 10/.768 and it drops packets like crazy between 7-11 pm every night. I figured it has to be an overloaded T1 backhaul from the DSLAM. I don't know why it's overloaded because Spectrum is available in the area served by that DSLAM. I'm surprised there are any CL customers left in that area given that's the case. The station owner won't pay for construction cost to get Spectrum extended to the tower to get decent service. It's because it's all mostly T1 backhaul and CL still sells 10Mbps to 20-30 houses, when really only 45ish Mbps is available from the beginning.. AND on top of that instead of doing local peering in Ohio, they actually dump all data through chicago, so there's another bottleneck. said by dcshobby:Spectrum doesn't use DSLAM's or share backhaul with Centurylink. Spectrum is a coaxial service and the last mile is served by fiber fed cable nodes connected back to a CMTS at their headend. He said he does not understand why CL is having issues BECAUSE cable is available.. i recommend re-reading the post |
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