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[joshua d boyd]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:59:31AM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> And you can run T1s for a very long distance over copper, as long as you
> have repeaters in the circuit every 6000 feet or so...but the telco
> usually charges you an arm and a leg and an ear to go along and put those
> repeaters in if you have a long "last mile" loop.  ISDN can only be
> repeated once or twice, giving you a limit of 18,000 feet from the CO.
> 
> When I had ISDN at home, I was 15,000 feet from the CO and SW Bell had to
> come out and dig up part of the cable trunk to put an ISDN repeater in.  I
> made em work for that $65 install fee.

So, ISDN and T1s aren't really that different from DSL in geographical
limitations.  It is just that whereas T1s and ISDN get repeated for a fee,
the telco seems to refuse to repeate DSL.  Does that sound about right?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
http://www.cs.millersville.edu/~jdboyd/