Posted by Richard Ragon on 09/29/05 07:08

Specs wrote:

> "Gary Eickmeier" <geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:zBEZe.145179$p_1.24248@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>
>>
>>Richard Crowley wrote:
>>
>>>"Gary Eickmeier" wrote ...
>>>
>>>
>>>>So doesn't DSL work off the phone lines?
>>>
>>>
>>>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. :-((
>>
>>Whooh! Satellite, here I come!
>>
>>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??

It has nothing to do with being "up to date".

When you sit on an island packed with people, it's allot easier to
implement DSL in small phone networks such as yours.

Until you come over the to the US, you can't possibly understand the
shear size and the traverse open areas to know that it's not a question
of behind behind in technologies, but more of a question of limits of
those technologies.

-Richard

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