Gary Heston wrote:

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You an SBC customer?

as soon as we'd heard SBC had bought PacTel we Scooby Danced
all over the office with joy and much laughter. it was a case
of the good consuming the evil and the evil were soon to get a
lesson in manners. yep that was a fine day indeed.

people from different parts of america are different from one another.
the network support engineers at the SBC Network Operations Center [NOC]
in Texas were all intelligent, pleasant and good to work for where as the
network support engineers in california were evil, cacophonous and rude.
did you know it can sometimes take 4.75 times longer to deliver a software
patch to a rude customer? yep sure can.



To get DSL service, you have to be within 18,000 cable-feet of either a
central office (CO) or a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM),
which is usually a green box about 18" square mounted on a pole.

and without pulse coded modulation [PCM] what could you get?


"Cable-feet" refers to the length of the actual cable run, not the straight
line distance from your house to the CO or DSLAM, and cable routing can be
pretty bizarre at times.

Gary