Re: O.T. DSL high-speed internet

Posted by paul on February 04, 2010 at 12:33:25 from (76.77.197.242):

In Reply to: O.T. DSL high-speed internet posted by CB in central NY on February 04, 2010 at 10:44:43:

There is 'through the air' internet service that uses cell phone technology.

There is over the wire DSL internet technology that comes from basicly 4-5 national providers, and is doled out by them or a local telephone company.

I'm not sure which we are talking about here? Verison would sound more like the cell phone wireless stuff, but the description is more like the real wire telephone line.

I tried for 3+ years _after_ my phone company talked about having limited rural DSL trying to get a firm understanding of what they offered to whom.

What mess. In talking to them several times a year, I _never_ got the same answer twice. Their sales, tech, and installation people do not ever talk to each other and do not know what is real and what is no real...... I was told I could get full DSL & TV, to I couldn't get anything & probably my phone doesn't even work that far out. I was told it would cost $200 to install, I was told it would be free install. And everything in between. I was quoted 3 different base prices for it - if I could get it - in the same 2 week period.

For the phone line DSL, you need to have one of their techs call up your number & test the line - you won't notice it, but they send a signal to your house box & back to see how well it works. If there is a special box about 10 miles worth of wire or less from your house you can get 128 or 256 speed DSL. This is not fast, but it sure beats dialup by a long long shot!

I think 500k DSL is about 3 miles or so????

If you are less than 3/4 mile from one of those boxes, you can get 1 meg DSL.

A problem you might run into is that your local telephone co just doesn't care, and offers 1 meg DSL to the town folk, and never has set up billing, installation, etc. for the slower speeds over longer distances?

Me, after 3+ years, I finally got to talk to the _one_ person in the whole outfit that knew what was, and was able to speak normal talk to explain what was, and I got hooked up with .95 meg DSL. (I'm just a few feet over the magic distance for 1 meg to work, they said I can keep this as 1 meg, or get slowed to 1/2 meg (500K) speed and have that....)

I hope you find that one person in the place that actually knows what is going on. It's a real trip trying to get through to these technology places, sheez! :)

--->Paul

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