At Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:50:02 -0300 Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > > > > OK, this is just a DSLAM. Rural America is not as 'remote' as the > > Australian Outback. > > > well not exactly... that Australian box is actually a dslam repeater. Are > you saying that even for people who are next door to the phone exchange > that serves you, there is no ADSL offered?. No, just that Western Mass is not as remote as the Australian Outback. By *Australian* standards, yes people 'next door to the phone exchange' (read like 3-10 miles) don't have ADSL. We are not talking about sheep ranches that are 100s of miles in the middle of nowhere. The Australian box appears to be designed for seriously remote places, where a conventual DSLAM is not a viable option. I live about 10 miles from the phone exchange. We are not talking about 30 miles into the desert or anything like that. All Verizon has to do is pour a small concrete pad and plant a conventual DSLAM next to the POTS concentrator that already exists in the center of Wendell and we would have DSL. Verizon has piles of old DSLAMs pulled when they wired the suburbs of Boston with FIOS. > > FC > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
