On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:02:01 +0000, Mark Rand
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:44:38 -0600, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

Bruce L. Bergman fired this volley in
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Except all I can get at 21KFT out from the CO is 384K down, 128K up,
and at&t won't let anyone else use their UVerse Remote DSLAM's.

DSL won't work at all over copper at that distance. You may be 21Kft from
the CO, but you're less than 8K feet from the local RT. Since most digital
services are on fiber from the CO to the RT, that distance doesn't matter
much. What matters most is how many feet you are from the RT, what shape
your copper media is in (which you cannot control), and how many other
subscribers are sharing the RT (which divides available bandwidth among
them).

LLoyd


Yes it does. I was at a slightly greater distance than that and got 2mb/S
down/500kb/S up until converting back to cable.


Mark Rand
RTFM

Lloyd, the hard limit is supposed to be 22,000 feet, and I"m
'officially' at 21Kft and change. If you measure physically it's a
lot less straight-line - but on a diagonal to the street grid. They
must have made a few extra zigs and zags actually getting here.

The DSL works, but it wheezes and sputters, they said even at 384/128
there are more resets and bad frames than they would like to see. But
as we all know, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Lived here 38 years, and there are no RSU's or RLU's or Concentrators
other electronics between here and the CO - we were on Crossbar
(818-883) when we moved in. Trust me, I was a GTE Construction Cable
Splicer and COE Construction Installer, I think I would have noticed
them digging the big hole for a Controlled Environment Vault, and the
access hatch is unmistakable...

at&t installed a RSU out of Canoga Park for the folks south of the
US-101 around the Motion Picture Hospital, and in a very subtle move
forced everyone to change their phones to 818-222 and 818-223

-- Bruce --