DSL help plz.

[Steve]

Why don't you guys take it off the list.. This is getting annoying.


On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 06:38:15PM -0800, ME wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Subject: Re: DSL help plz.
> > I'm sorry to say that you still appear not to have understood what I
> > said:
> > 
> > The 2 Mbps HDSL segment I mentioned is _internal_ to my former firm's
> > network (as I said before).  It's used to connect the firm's LAN across
> > a large office building via existing CAT3 cabling.  We used HDSL routers
> > on either side of the building's telco cable, that being the best we
> > could do without stringing new cable (which was not an option).
> 
> Probing more deeply into this:  You state that you used the building's
> telco cable, so I was assuming you were using the telco (telephone
> company) for your DSL service. Maybe you have your own telephone switching
> equipment on your campus not run by a telephone company?
> 
> It appears that my use of telco refers to the "tellephone company" and
> your use of the word applies to "telecomminications" in general.
> 
> The existing cat-3 cable you have (assuming your company owns the wire in
> the building) could entirely be seperate from the telephone company.
> 
> If the above *is* true, then I did mis-understand your re-stated segment.
> Sorry about that.
> 
> So much for connection-oriented reliable communications such as this...
> 
> > > Two questions:
> > 
> > Neither of which bears on what I said.  Perhaps you should ask someone
> > with a great deal of free time to spend.  I'm afraid I'm running short.
> 
> bummer.
> 
> It is a good discussion, thanks for contributing as much time as you have.
> Everyone benfits (including me) as we corect each other and form a clearer
> picture.
> 
> -M