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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>  
> wrote:
>
> > ....We are 5
> > miles by road to the town... and that's beyond the limit for DSL.
>
>
> I'm 13 mi. to town, we got connected to DSL about one year ago.

Lisa,

Good for you that you got connected.. Is the speed you get ok?

I'm not up on the current DSL situation, but as I understand it, if  
you are beyond a certain distance to the place where the equipment is,  
you have trouble with DSL.  That would be whatever building the phone  
company has, which might well not  be in the town.  Where we moved  
from two years ago, we were beyond the practical limit.  In addition,  
our section of the town was built in the early 60's, and the phone  
lines were put in at that time. The phone folks have a way to measure  
the distance the wires take to get to your house.  Their websites may  
not answer correctly when you ask if DSL is available.

> Of course,
> our phone/internet connection company also has a complete monopoly  
> here and
> has had recent press for having what else but financial problems.

Let's hope that they fail and are quickly bought out by some outfit  
that upgrades your service and lowers the rates!

Roy
 ever the optimist

Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180