An ISP of their own (was RE: [rescue] Being jobless)

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Steve Sandau wrote:
>>> 1. wouldn't 1.5M sdsl be cheaper?  they're going for more like $400
>>>    around here.  you do have to be within 9500' of a co.
>>   Many "real" T1s are delivered that way anyway.  I had one (an"real, 
>> official" T1) at my old house back in 1997 or so that was delivered 
>> that way.
>
> Yeah, our telco-provided T1 comes through an HDSL box on our end, with 
> the mate at the telco CO.

   Yup.  It was a Pairgain box in my case.  Sweet little box full of 
DSP; the telco guy said they cost $15K/ea at the time.  It terminated 
in a v.35 interface.

          -Dave

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