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Assist me in getting DSL.
2004-11-16, 9:31 AM #41
~40$ here. 500KBps download speeds. Cox > *
2004-11-16, 10:13 AM #42
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Originally posted by Cool Matty
I said the routing station, not the telephone office. There's a difference. The routing station is usually unmanned, a little building off to the side of the neighborhood. All the DSL connections run to there, and from there they run on a large pipe to the central distribution area. Cable runs on a similar system, but there is no length restrictions.

Well, there happen to be no routing stations between our home and the switching office; the details on our phone line note that it goes directly to the office, with no routing station in-between.

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Originally posted by Cool Matty
You don't HAVE to have a filter. I've seen some places that don't require them, one being where my grandmother works. (Small business) But many places do, and some need even bigger filters on them, depending on how old and crappy the phone lines are.

as far as I knew, a filter is required for any actual DSL line. Of course, there are also other connections of the same type as DSL, which include ISDN and T1. Quite possibly, SDSL may be one of these that isn't "actually" DSL.

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Originally posted by Cool Matty
Which brings me to a new situation I remembered with DSL. If your phone lines are really old and crappy, it won't work on that either. Generally they don't know if it'll work in your house until they try it. They can try boosting the signal, but it rarely works. Cable suffers from this problem a little also, but boosters are much more effective on cable. They can only boost the DSL signal so much before it overrides your phone conversations.

What about the cost of installing co-axial lines into your houshold for Internet? Every house built in the US has phone lines in it; (though I suppose one could have a builder construct a house that didn't have them) but not every house has cable lines.
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2004-11-16, 10:18 AM #43
Oh, and I just re-checked our prices; our DSL (provided by Verizon, the local "baby Bell" here) is $25 per month. Charter communications supplies Cable Internet for $40 a month, and a cable TV service packadge is required in addition; the cheapest package is roughyl $15 a month.

Also, as for the price of a phone line, what's so bad with paying for one? Even with a telephone service packadge, the price of DSL still opnly comes up to roughly the cost of cable service alone, and the phone service is actually useful for local calls, as VoIP isn't anywhere near as quick to use for such calls. (VoIP does the trick for long-distance, though)
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