ISP Information:
DDR SDRAM running at 100MHz double-pumped to an effective speed of 200MHz. It has a maximum data transfer rate of 1.6GB/second for one PC1600 channel.
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PC1600 - William Warren wrote inmessage news:: Ryan wrote in message news:telecom22.634.3@telecom-digest.org: Thanks for the excellent advice. I had a vague feeling that there's a lot more to doing DSL than obtaining a "dry pair" and two capable modems. Yes, there is: and doing it Cringely's way might even extend to obtaining legal advice when you realize some stranger has just handed you a subpoena. In many states, tariffs have the force of law, and some even provide criminal penalties for avoiding their limits: I say "Do It Yourself" means doing it *without* resorting to underhanded tactics. Now I know that my attitude is in some ways naive: cynics amoung us might snort about the Telco's high-priced lobbyists and the best-money-can-buy regulators found at some State Capitols. I say, if you don't like the way things are, then change them, either by lobbying for inclusion of more DSL providers, or by finding other, legal, ways around the restrictions. The worst thing to do is to climb in bed with a political whore, because the disease you'll take back to your home is the notion that only money talks and only the well-connected have a say. The philosophy of public utility regulation has always held that monopolies should offset the costs of some services with the revenues provided by others, and the "dry pairs" that used to be provided to alarm-service companies are no exception. Business lines have always cost more than residential, based on the benefit the businessman received from the fact that *all* his customers could be reached by telephone, and could reach him. "Lifeline" telephone service is subsidized by other ratepayers via a "Universal Access" fee, and the fact is that *all* the ratepayers can dial 911 and quickly request a specific kind of help instead of trying to find their way to a Fire Alarm box to summon ten or twenty men and women who might be needed elsewhere. For that reason, "burglar alarm" lines have always been very conservatively priced, because the regulators felt that the comcomitant reduction in crime and the service's low maintenance record justified the lower rates. To take a circuit tariffed for a low turnover, low maintenance, "DC Only" use, and trick someone into allowing it's use for high speed data, is at best short-sited, and at worst, criminal. Cringely doesn't have to worry: he's not going to get a subpoena for saying you could, and you're not going to share in his book royalties after PBS has set him up as the "expert" in everything related to computers. I've thought about some sort of wireless, but unfortunately I don't have line of sight. Well, you probably have line of sight to someone who has line of sight to your destination, or to someone else who does: do some horse trading. Although cellular use has pushed the price of antenna space through the roof in many places, you might be able to add some value to an existing tower (Paint? Change the lightbulbs? Do some legal work? Dig a trench? Cut the grass?) and get a relay point without laying out any cash. Plus, there are always church steeples, water towers, or even trees to be had for a little bargaining. Why not go out in the sunlight and ask? I've also considered the VPN over broadband Internet option (probably have to revisit that one). That's one option, and there are many others. You might consider a network of relatively low speed links that can be aggregated via multilink-ppp, and that will allow you to use frequency bands that don't require LOS. You might choose to form a cooperative in your community, pay Ma Bell (gasp!) for a T-1 line, and share the discounted cost amount your neighbors. There are infra-red and other short range data transceivers which don't even require FCC licenses, and there's even the possibility of running your own wire between the two locations if you can negotiate the right of way. It's just that both locations are pretty close to
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