Posted by Specs on 09/25/05 22:52

"Gary Eickmeier" <geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Richard Crowley wrote:
> > "Gary Eickmeier" wrote ...
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> >> So doesn't DSL work off the phone lines?
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> > Not when your telephone line is more than 18,000 feet.
> > Besides, half my neighborhood is on SLC (Subscriber-
> > Line Carrier) were they use the bandwidth that would
> > have been used for DSL to carry your next-door neighbor's
> > telephone service. :-((
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> Whooh! Satellite, here I come!
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> Gary Eickmeier

Jeez, even in the UK in the back of beyond where I live we've got 2.2Mbps
DSL. I thought the US was a first world country??

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