[mdlug] Naked/"dry loop" DSL and Linux-friendly ISPs

[Joseph C. Bender]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:37 -0500, Robert Adkins wrote:
>     Their level of lying is stupidly silly about this. We live less than 
> two miles from their main switching center in the Royal Oak area.
> 
	Actually, this isn't a good yardstick.  Physical CO distance doesn't
make much of a difference, infrastructure wise.  It's all about the
total copper loop length.

>     Their website won't allow me to "upgrade" my DSL Service speeds, yet 
> the person on the phone says that I can, as long as I let them power 
> vacuum more money, for useless services, out of my wallet.
> 
	Yeah, they're really bad with that.  This is one of the advantages to
using a non SBC DSL provider, as they're not usually as large, uncaring,
or stupid.

>     I wouldn't mind being able to run a server. One of these days I am 
> intending on getting my photography business going and wouldn't mind 
> hosting some of my own things, on my own server. That is neither here 
> nor there though.
>
	Figured I'd mention it while I was at it.

>     If we switched to Cable Modem, we would entirely drop the phone line 
> in the house and stick with our cell phones for all calls. We really 
> have no use for the house phone, other than to receive a few calls and 
> phone the local pizza place.
> 
	Ah, you'd mentioned all three in your original post so I thought I'd
share what I knew.


JCB